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Joint Commission Accreditation Awarded Again

February 4, 2012

The Family Foundation School has received notice from The Joint Commission that it has granted accreditation for all services surveyed under their Comprehensive Manual for Behavioral Health Care.  The school participated in an site visit review this past fall.  The school has maintained The Joint Commission’s Goal Seal of Accreditation since it first participated in the extensive site survey and internal review process [...]

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Waiting with Purpose

January 26, 2012

Given the pace of life these days, it takes a great deal of willpower to slow down, and even more to just stop and wait. Patience is a virtue that few troubled teens possess. We’ve seen many students do amazing work here only to turn 18 and walk away from the school because they literally [...]

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How are you doing with those New Year’s resolutions?

January 19, 2012

We talk a lot about change here at the school. The word is right there in our tag line, “Building character, changing lives.” As we all know, though, change is one of those words that’s easier said than done. Those of us into making New Years resolutions are reminded of that sad fact every time [...]

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“God Help the Perfectionist!”

January 8, 2012

Perfectionism is one of those traits that looks benign on the surface but has many destructive effects. Like depression. Constantly falling short of your own expectations is demoralizing and self damaging. “Depression loves a perfectionist!” Or how about addiction? Perfectionists see everything in black and white with no grey in the middle. They’re either perfectly [...]

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Integrating the New Student

January 4, 2012

By Sid Parham In the Dark Ages that were the late 1950’s, I was sent to a boarding school.  There, new students were subject to the demands of older students, held doors open for them, were subject to large group meetings run entirely by students about school culture and spirit, and if one was particularly [...]

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This Spice Not So Nice

December 22, 2011

Here’s a P.S. to last week’s Leadership blog (“Good News, Bad News”) about the increased use of marijuana by high school students. The jump in use is even greater for synthetic marijuana. These mixtures of herbs and chemicals widely known as “spice” or “K2” were sold legally until recently, often as “herbal incense,” in convenience [...]

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Good News, Bad News

December 15, 2011

A study released last week by the National Institutes of Health has found that overall use of alcohol, cigarettes and cocaine among teenagers is slowly declining. The long-running annual report, called the Monitoring the Future survey, looked at more than 46,000 students nationwide. It found that teens are using less crack, cocaine, over-the-counter cough and [...]

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Help for Angy Teens with ADHD

December 10, 2011

Anger issues are part and parcel of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)—a diagnosis that a significant number of students struggle with here at FFS. As a rule, these students tend to feel and express their emotions more strongly. Many of them also suffer from the depression and anxiety that frequently accompany ADHD, making them even [...]

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