Parent and Teen Books

"I recently received the information that you sent from your organization. I appreciate your quick response to my request and wanted to thank you for the reference material that you sent. As a case manager in the adolescent residential program, my role is vital to helping parents and their teens find appropriate referrals for aftercare. I..." Read more

"Dear Sue, Thank you so much for the information! You were very informative and helpful!!"

"Sue, You are doing a great job, and your doing with style and ethics. My friend told me that her brother paid the Educational Consultant $6500.00 to find that school they pay $6,000. Per month. He probably also got his referral fee from the school. I have no issue with people making money. You are doing a great job and should get paid for..." Read more

"Dear Sue, We had been researching straight for the last 3 days and on and off for months. Thanks for helping us get the information we need to help our daughter. It has been nothing but frustrating and quite frankly, frightening, until we found your site and spoke with you."

"Sue, Thank you for being there for not only me but for the many parents/ caregivers that are searching for answers and proper treatment for their child. I believe that we are on the right path (in my situation) yet will certainly reach out again (to you) should things take a different path."

"Sue, Thank you so much for your guidance. You will never know how much comfort you have given me."

"Dear P.U.R.E., I just saw a documentary from when you won the freedom of speech case. I now see you have done better again. I was horrified by what I saw and inspired to write to say how wonderful you are. I was also impressed by how brave people in the show were."

"Dear Sue, I just wanted to thank you for your willingness to help my family. I don't know where we would be right now if I hadn't found your organization's website. I even told my therapist about it, so she can recommend it to other desperate parents! Thank you again for your help."

"Sue, Thank you so much for this very detailed information, especially at a time when I feel like our family is falling apart. It is a godsend to have words of Sue, You were tremendously helpful! I appreciate all the time you spent with me on the phone!"

"Sue, My daughter is doing fine now and has improved 95% since the last time I sent the e-mail. I appreciate your concern in this matter and am glad that people like you are always there to help. Thank you"

"Thank you for your quick response to my e-request. I will call Marie as soon as I can find some time to do so, most likely later today. This is a very helpful resource. Thanks for setting it up."

"Can't thank you enough, I finally feel like I have objective direction to get my daughter help."

"I can't express enough how grateful I'm that you went the extra mile to get me this information. May the Lord double reward you for your kindness."

"Sue, Thank you so much for you expertise and the information! Your help is greatly appreciated!"

"Hi Sue, I really appreciated talking to you. The understanding alone made me feel better."

"Sue, The service you provide parents like me who have�no clue what they are doing is invaluable.� Everything from start to finish seemed to roll seamlessly and I'm so grateful for your service."

"Dear Sue, I wanted to follow up on this and other messages and thank you for all of your help with us getting [name withheld] placed. The Covid-19 issue wreaked havoc, but recently our son went to Utah for a two-week quarantine and is now taking part in his first week at [name withheld for privacy]. He has a good attitude and all of the s..." Read more

"Sue, This is such a big decision and it is so helpful to talk with someone who has been down this path and has such a wealth of knowledge. Thank you."

"Sue, I wanted to follow up with you. Thank you for your advice and recommendation. I visited (name withheld) personally the week before I brought my son up. I think it will be exactly what he needs to develop socially and emotionally. I have been impressed in the 4 days he has been there with the various contacts that the staff has made w..." Read more

"I am so thankful that there is a resource such as your organization out there, for parents like myself. I am especially thankful that you were not another resource that wanted to charge me a large fee to help me find help in a desperate situation."

"Dear Pure; I want to thank you both for the moral support (Sue) and for the physical support (Greg) by visiting him when it was crucial back in November. Also for both of your words of wisdom and basically for being there for me in more ways than you can possibly imagine."

"Dear Sue, I was lost and confused. My son was hospitalized and I never experienced this feeling of being lost to help my child. Then our Psychiatrist gave me your name and organization. What a blessing! God was listening to my cries for help when you answered the phone. Our son is successfully placed at a wonderful facility getting the ex..." Read more

"Sue, I was thinking about you and the P.U.R.E. organization in last few days. I don't know if you recall me. I spoke with you and the staff from August 2002 thru October 2002. You were immensely helpful to my wife and myself My learning's and how to approach our problems started with finding you folks. My wife and I suffered for almost 3..." Read more

"Horsemanship was important to our daughter at one time, but once she started down her dark road, I never thought she would want to ride again. You were the first person to ask me ‘what my daughter’s passions were (before hitting this dark road) ‘. After you told us about therapeutic boarding schools with equine therapy, we finally felt li..." Read more

"Sue, Your books, blogs, and interviews show what a great mother, thinker, and caring person you are. You are a shining example of a parent whose done the hard work."

"Sue, Thanks very much for responding. Thank you again for your email. It's a comforting thing to know someone is out there who understands and may be able to point me in a direction. Merry Christmas."

"Hi Sue. Thank you for all your help. I felt totally overwhelmed by the amount of info to weed through and your recommendation was right-on. You helped me and my family more than you'll ever know and I am eternally grateful. Now it's up to my daughter, so please say a prayer for her."

"Dear Sue, I cannot tell you how appreciative I am for your help. I was feeling so alone and powerless with what has been going on with my son. His entire life has been sleeping all day, skipping school and going out to hang and get high with his friends. Nothing else interested him. I looked up boarding schools on line and their website..." Read more

"The dog therapy my son experienced at his program changed his life. He still has his Labrador today. It has taught him responsibility and accountability. He has empathy, respect, and most importantly self-worth. He even started a dog-walking and sitting business in our neighborhood. I can’t thank you enough for sharing your knowledge of a..." Read more

"Thank you so very much for your phone call. I am most grateful for your info I am now on a mission to get my granddaughter help and I again want to thank you ."