Mississippi Troubled Teens in Crisis

Society today is a tough place to be if you are a teenager. It is very easy for Mississippi teens in crisis to get caught up in drugs and alcohol, running away from home, defiance towards authority, and disrespect because “everyone is doing it”. That is one of the major fallacies in teenage thinking: that because everyone is doing it, that justifies what they are doing, even if it is self-destructive in the long run. If you require assistance with troubled boys or girls, our counselors at Abundant Life Academy will be able to help you, our number is 888-305-6729.

Because teenagers are social creatures, they have a strong psychological desire to fit in with a group of friends to fulfill a social need. This can be either good or bad. If teens in crisis hang out with friends who encourage them and are a good influence then the relationship is beneficial, but if they start mixing with the wrong crowd it can have disastrous consequences. They can be influenced to experiment with drugs and alcohol and disregard parental decisions, which lead to the destruction of a family. At Abundant Life Academy, our goal is to help troubled teens work through their problems and facilitate family restoration. Our licensed therapists have sessions with troubled boys and girls to get to the root of the problem so they can eliminate it. If you would like to find out more our counselors would be glad to help, please call 888-305-6729. 

Mississippi Teens Crisis Resources for Parents of Troubled Teens

Ymca: Teen Crisis Center

806 North Farish Street

Jackson, MS 39202-2898

(601) 353-4357

 

CONTACT Crisis/Suicide Line

Hotline: (601) 713-4357 or (866) 322-9832 (Spanish)

Phone: (601) 713-4099

 

Domestic Abuse Family Shelter, Inc.

PO Box 273

Laurel, MS 39441-0273

Hotline: 1-800-649-1092

 

East Mississippi Sexual Assault Center

24-hour Crisis Line

P.O. Box 1207

Meridian, MS 39302

Hotline: (601) 485-2828 or (800) 643-6250

Phone: (601) 485-4736

 

Mississippi Department of Human Services

Child/Adult Abuse Neglect Hotline

Hotline: 1-800-222-8000 (statewide only) or (601) 359-4991

 

Shafer Center for Crisis Intervention

Hotline: (601) 264-7777

 

The following Mississippi cities have been searched by parents of teens in crisis:

Jackson, Gulfport, Biloxi, Hattiesburg, Greenville, Meridian, Tupelo, Southaven, Vicksburg, Pascagoula, Clinto, Pearl, Starkville, Olive Branch, Clarksdale, Ridgeland, Natchez, Greenwood, Laurel, Long Beach, Ocean Springs, Brandon, Moss Point and Grenada
 



Abundant Life Academy is among Christian boarding schools with residential therapy and behavioral therapy for troubled teen girls and boys with teen counseling for girls and boys to improve behavior of teenagers struggling with anger, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), attention deficit, attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), substance abuse, depression, reactive attachment disorder (RAD), intermittent explosive disorder (IED), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, self-harm, or rebellion.

THERAPEUTIC BOARDING SCHOOLS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

Abundant Life Academy provides troubled teens with teen counseling for girls and boys and adolescent therapy. Our Christian boarding schools serve girls an boys from in Texas, in Utah, in California, in Oregon and in Washington State in the West Coast and in Arizona, in New Mexico, in Oklahoma and in Nevada in the Southwest. In the southern and central states we serve teens in Arkansas, in Kentucky, in Tennessee, in Missouri, in Louisiana, and in Mississippi, in Michigan, in Ohio, in Indiana and in Illinois and in the northern states in Montana, in North Dakota, in Minnesota, and in Idaho in the north, and along the east coast from in Georgia to in Florida, in Virginia, in New York, in North Carolina, in Pennsylvania, and in New Jersey.