- Parents and the educational establishment are recognizing that there is a serious problem and that no one is immune. The increased awareness of these challenges and their reversal has dissipated the denial that existed previously.
- More and more parents and educators are realizing that accepting these children as they are and validating their concerns when they are legitimate, are critical factors in turning our wayward youth around.
- Always providing unconditional love is a very important factor in bringing kids back.
- Deep down, everyone who goes off the derech knows that they will never be happy until they work through their issues with Yiddishkeit.
- Parents and educators are beginning to realize this and are not giving up on them.
- Parents are learning to treat the at-risk phenomenon as a mutual problem shared between them and their child, rather than a basis for conflict and strife.
- Parents and educators are taking more advantage of the well-trained and experienced frum professionals available today to help our children.
- Teenagers who go off the derech are realizing that the inappropriate thrills so readily accessible to them lead to no real lasting fulfillment or happiness. They also begin to realize that their frum friends are much happier then they, which spurs them to work harder to improve.
- More and more understanding and caring mentors are becoming involved in their lives and guiding them in these efforts.
- More and more parents and educators are being trained in prevention, detection, and early intervention for at-risk challenges.
REACHING THE NEXT GENERATION
