Wilderness Therapy & Residential Treatment Center Journey Andy Goldstrom

This podcast episode is an announcement for a new podcast, called Winning Parenting. It is focused on all aspects of parenting and leverages the training and experience I have as a parent coach. It provides insights and approaches for parenting beyond children in programs.



To have a listen, click on this link (for Apple Podcasts) - Winning Parenting Podcast.



For more information about Andy's Parent Coaching Business - Parents Journey Coaching



For more information about Sky's The Limit Fund - SLTF



For more information about UCONN's Center for Neurodiversity - UCONN



For more information about Other Parents Like Me - OPLM

In this episode, we will explore the myriad of changes in the behavioral health industry. It includes:

1. Why I am recording again

2. Changes in the industry

3. Breaking Code Silence

4. New congressional bill proposed

5. What it means to you

In this episode, we speak to Susie McDaniel, Executive Director of LearningRx.  LearningRx offers brain training programs for kids, teens, adults, and students who are having learning difficulties!

With brain training, you or your child can improve core learning and thinking skills, including attention span, memory, and thinking speed. They also offer programs that focus on specific brain training goals, like improved reading skills, or cognitive training for brain injuries.

During our discussion, we covered the following topics:


Background
Whom do you serve
Types of programs
Results achieved/difference from other programs
Process to engage
Locations
Costs
Contact info

For more information, go to www.learningrx.com.

In this special episode, Andy Goldstrom shares that our treatment programs are being threatened by celebrities, lobbyists and older recipients of treatment.  As a result, for those who care about our kids and their parents, we need to act.  Write an email imploring these governmental leaders to help our programs, not further restrict them or take them down.  If they do, this will be a real tragedy.

Email addresses are:

Utah State Senator Michael McKell – mmckell@le.utah.gov

OR State Senator Sara Gelser Blouin – sen.saragelser@orgeonlegislature.gov

CA Congressman Ro Khanna – https://khanna.house.gov/contact/email

OR Sen. Jeff Merkley -  merkley@merkley.senate.gov

Feel free to cc me on your emails - andy@parentsjourney.net.

Thank you.

Today, we chat with Jeremy Whitworth. Trails Carolina is a very unique program. Based outside of Asheville, NC, this program caters to 10-17 year-olds and supports their families as well.  It has an academic, wilderness and campus focus.  In addition, they have completed an objective study with an outside party about the effectiveness of their program.  The. results are impressive and also indicative of the success of the programs in general, not just with Trails Carolina.  Tune in and enjoy!

You can find out more at https://trailscarolina.com/.

In today's episode, we talk with Dawn McCord, mother of Carson McCord.  

Carson battled a fierce drug addiction that led him to overdoses, hospital visits, loss of hearing, parental nightmares and finally a trip to wilderness therapy and other forms of treatment.  Dawn relives and shares her harrowing true story to help us understand addiction is prevalent, especially with adolescents and there is a community to support parents.  She has written a moving book about her experience as well.  Order the book here Chasing Carson Book.