The Real Truth About Youth Diversion

The Real Truth About Youth Diversion 

Allow us, for just a minute, to take you back to your earlier days as a teen.  Now think about that ONE thing (for some of us it’s hard to pin down one) you did that you still can’t believe you got away with.  You know what it is, because you likely thought about it right away and maybe even cringed a bit.  

Now, bear with us just once more; what would have happened to you if you would have been caught today?  Would you be grounded, arrested, or even alive?  Think about that one for a second, were there ever times that you took risks that could have landed you in jail or even dead?

According to The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, over 11 million teens reported drinking in 2021.  Read that again and notice it said “reported.”  The CDC reported in 2022 over 2.5 million youth reported using e-cigarettes or vaping. Here are just a couple other stats that may cause you to take notice:

• 1 in 7 teens reported sending sex texts of explicit pictures to other teens, while 1 in 4 reported receiving them.
• Of the 27 percent of teens killed fatal crashes in 2021, 22 percent of them were intoxicated.
• With 95 percent of teens online, nearly half have reported being cyberbullied, with only an average of 13 percent admitting to being the offender.
• In 2020, one-fifth of all teens report that were in a physical fight during the past year.

These stats are not meant to scare you, they’re meant to ‘wake you.’  Remember that incident we asked you to remember at the beginning of this article?  What would your life be like if you committed that act today, with social media everywhere, with drugs now being laced so often teens are overdosing on their first try, and everyone around us having access to video cameras on their phone?

Enter Diversion.  We get it, it’s not that they’re bad kids, it’s that they’ve made a bad choice and are being raised in a culture where violence, drug use and sexual exploitation has become so common we’re desensitized.  Before your child becomes a product of a system that is very much broken, consider enrolling in our Youth Diversion Program that educates them on why they’re making the choices they make, how to change their behavior and sustain these skills out in the world, particularly around their peers.

Contact us at 419-250-0810 or email us at sgefdivdirector@gmail.com to find out if this is the right fit for your child.  Why wait until you have to make a decision?  Call us now, we’ve got you.