Welcome
What does Second Growth do?
- Counsels adolescents and young adults on drug, alcohol, and recovery issues, and violence prevention.
- Provides Student Assistance Programs to middle and high schools
- Presents professional development training, school and community presentations, and agency consultations.
Why is Second Growth so successful in counseling adolescents?
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Second Growth’s practices remove barriers:
- – Staff’s ability to communicate effectively with adolescents
- – Unconditional support, up to 24/7, for clients at risk of harm
- – Flexibility in meeting times and places.
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Second Growth helps fix what has broken down:
- – Relationships between youth, families and communities
- – Coordination of care among education, healthcare and legal systems.
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Second Growth helps create support networks for recovery and growth.
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Second Growth helps transform how adolescents relate to the world.
Its counselor-coaches have been effective in engaging with students, and helpful and discrete in meeting with school staff. SG has been wonderfully effective in its efforts with the youth of Lebanon.
—Mike Harris, Superintendent, SAU 88 Lebanon