My Nonprofit Reviews

My son is currently at Hearlight MInistries. He has been there now for 8 months. Deciding to send him to Heartlight was not easy, it was actually the hardest decision his dad and I have ever had to make. We were failing at home, watching him drown in depression and anxiety, watching him withdraw from everything he loved. He was lying, skipping school, seeking self medicating behaviors, all of the behaviors every parent dreads. In my wildest dreams I never imagined the spiral of behaviors and the difficult decision to say we could no longer parent our child, and that we needed help. We tried outpatient counseling locally, and although we love our local counselor, nothing was working, he was drowning. I remember telling him, multiple times, I cannot and will not watch you drown. We decided to thrown him the Heartlight life preserver. We made the difficult steps to enroll him in Heartlight, and since that day, the day he left home and we entered him in the Heartlight program, we have moved forward. The tears, the anger, the difficult phone calls, difficult decisions, they have all been worth it. He is a forever changed young man. The progress he has made during the program is truly a gift from God. I will forever be grateful for Heartlight, their staff, and Mark Gregston. The staff members are truly amazing. The counselors, the staff that live in the homes, all of them. I cannot sing the praises of Heartlight enough and I highly recommend if you are having difficulties with your teen, explore your options with Heartlight.