Monday 29 April 2013

Adolescent Transport Services: Getting Them to Go

By Saleem Rana


Monday, April 22, 2012

Interview by Lon Woodbury

Bill Lane, President and Founder of Bill Lane and Associates Transports spoke with Lon Woodbury from strugglingteens. com on L.A. Talk Radio about how adolescent transport services provide safe, smooth, professional and caring transport to a therapeutic program so that the child, parents and family can feel good about the process.

Bill Lane has been past President of the CEDU School in California. He has worked for about 40 years with young people with problems and their families in the therapeutic boarding school industry. He estimates that he has worked with over 10,000 families to provide transportation to all kinds of therapeutic and treatment facilities.

How Does A Teen Transportation Service Work?

An adolescent transportation service specializes in de-escalating the transport of a struggling teenager or young adult from his or her home to boarding schools, therapeutic schools, wilderness programs, or residential treatment centers.

Lane and his team understand many ways to connect with teenagers. When they escort a brand-new pupil to a program, it is not uncommon for them to be warmly greeted and hugged by teenagers they had previously escorted. By the time adolescents arrive at a boarding school, much of their bad temper and fear has actually dissipated. The time spent in transport, whether it is by airplane or automobile, is made use of by agents to engage in deep conversations to make a smooth transition from the teen's house environment to the unknown educational and therapeutic facility.

The teams also work very closely with the parents at home and the professionals at the destination therapeutic program, informing them about all phases of the transportation via calls or text messaging. Additionally, special care is taken to select the right agents to do the transport, because the rapport that develops between the agents and the adolescent can have a lasting positive impact. Lane emphasized to Woodbury that for successful, drama-free transport, every adolescent has to be treated with dignity and respect.

All transportation arrangements are made by the teen transport services to reduce the stress on Moms and Dads, keeping in mind cost efficiency. Hardly ever is force needed to make kids go, and at no time is the teen permitted to be alone from the time the agents start the transport. When the journey is completed and the adolescent is securely with the chosen program, the agent will then call the parents and give a full description of the trip.

Besides talking about the transport itself, Lane also went over with Woodbury the many ways to choose great Adolescent Transportation Services and the requirements utilized for selecting the best transport. representatives




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