Alateen

My task that night was to take the boys from the ranch, which was nestled in the rural hills outside Sebastopol, into Santa Rosa to the Orenda Center, where the boys - many of whom came from families that were rife with alcohol and drug abuse - to their weekly "Alateen" meeting, which is basically a support group for teenagers with friends or families that are alcoholic.

Hell Is For Children part II -Telling the Truth About a Pedophile Teacher 2008

I even attended some Alateen meetings back when my mom was hanging out at The Club.

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A couple of months later, it was front page headlines in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat when Donald Inman, the man who victimized dozens of girls at Tamalpais High School without being detected, was arrested and charged with thirteen counts of felony child molesting involving many of the kids at the Alateen meeting.

Hell Is For Children part II -Telling the Truth About a Pedophile Teacher 2008

I was horrified to see that the person running the Alateen meeting was Donald Inman!

Hell Is For Children part II -Telling the Truth About a Pedophile Teacher 2008

I then drove the boys back to the ranch, and filed an incident report about discovering a convicted pedophile running the Alateen meeting.

Hell Is For Children part II -Telling the Truth About a Pedophile Teacher 2008

The ideas promoted by Al-Anon and Alateen are, however, sometimes taken to an unreasonable extreme.

Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

Of course, as with any peer-led group, anyone in Al-Anon or Alateen can say anything they want, and occasionally bad advice is given along with the good.

Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

And perhaps if a young person doesn't know what a Twelve-Step program is, then Middle America educators could educate about 12-Step Programs in particular Alateen A 12-Step Program which is for young people who have a friend or family member who drinks too much.

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Al-Anon and Alateen, organizations that sprang from AA, are designed specifically to help people like you, the friends and family members of addicts, understand addiction on an emotional level, which can, in turn, better enable you to help the addict.

Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

Al-Anon and Alateen, while not forms of therapy themselves, can help friends and family members of addicts address their common problems.

Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007