Welcome to Family Light

Direct On-line Information and Support for People Concerned with Young People

Welcome to an area of the FamilyLight™ website that is under development. As of today, September 4, 2007, we are actively working on this. To return to New Format, Choose "Home."

Our purpose is to create resource that will accomplish three major goals:

Provide a guide to resources that will reliably assist families in locating schools and treatment resources through web searches. At no time will we recommend specific facilities for specific families, but we will attempt to provide resources so that the task of doing an on-line search will not be quite so daunting.
Provide a mutual support service for families in crisis.
Provide in-depth assistance to professionals assisting clients, such as mental health professionals and other consultants.

Toward those goals, this section will contain:

• A directory of services. This will begin with schools and residential treatment services generally utilized by educational consultants. It will expand to listings of resources as comprehensively as possible. When this is initially posted, it will be a simple list. We hope to upgrade it gradually to a searchable database, then eventually to system that users can personalize.

• Articles, commentary, references to books and websites of interest.

• (Long range) -- A section that will include the above items that will be organized to guide parents step by step through web searches for resources, in fulfillment of goal 1 above. When in good order, this section will be accessed by fee, but while under development will be free of charge.

• Parents Supporting Parents – a moderated forum of parents reaching out to each other. We hope this will not just be about families in crisis, but parents doing their best to help each other improve quality of life for all children, teens, young adults, and their families. This will grow into our virtual support community. See next bullet.

• A virtual support community. This is a major project that is more long range. A step beyond a moderated forum, this will be a virtual community of people sharing their strength and hope in improving quality of life for all families. People participating in this will be carefully screened and will operate at a level of trust and mutual interaction that exceeds typical chat room and online discussions.

• (long range) A section of primary interest to professionals, accessible by fee.

• Our "Links" section will be moved here. Every link will appear somewhere else on the website in text where there is material that might prompt a move to the link at issue. In addition, all links will show here.