CHANGES Parent Support Groups for out-of-control teenagers.

Parent Support Network

The CHANGES Parent Support Network, located in the state of Washington, was founded in 1996 as a spin-off from another parenting group. We provide support, education, and service to parents struggling with teens and adolescents who are engaging in self-destructive or acting-out behaviors such as truancy and failing grades, defiant, rebellious or out-of-control behavior, running away, drug and alcohol abuse, illegal activities, aggressive and/or addictive behaviors and attempted suicide.

ChangeInsight ("Changes") is a self-help, common sense and structured group program of active, constructive behavior change and emotional growth for parents and families. Using peer support, it helps you regain control of your home and teach your children to accept responsibility for their out-of-control behavior. Parent groups meet weekly, are entirely confidential, and funded by voluntary donations. The group provides strength through the combined experiences and wisdom of parents sharing common problems and solutions that have worked for others.

If you are feeling helpless and frustrated, angry or isolated because of your child's acting-out behavior, join a support group and start making a change in your life and your child's life.

©CHANGES Parent Support Network
P.O. Box 33211
Seattle, Washington 98133
1-888-468-2620
Click here for printable 2-page brochure.

Parent Support Groups provide strength through the combined experiences and wisdom of other parents sharing common problems. Meetings are weekly, completely confidential, and funded by voluntary donations. Click on the link above to find a group location near you.

January, 2003 article from The Seattle Times which provides a good overview of the Changes program: Support Network Eases Problems for Parents of Out-of_Control Teens

July 19, 2006 article from The Queen Anne News: Weathering Family Storms

"We never planned to live our lives this way. And no one else understands how we ever got to this point. We don't even understand it. We just know we're there. And it's finally time to make a change--for everyone's benefit."
GS, Mother of 23 year-old son