Dore' Frances
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Advocate, Author, Educational Consultant, Visionary Expert
Dore' Frances Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Help for troubled teens and those at risk. Adopted children and challenges with attachment disorders
- Best Sellers
- Serving clients all across the United States, Canada and Internationally.
- Career Focus
- Advocate and Author
- Affiliation
- Advocates for Children of Trauma /The National Alliance for Grieving Children /The National CASA Association /The Council of Parent Atto eys and Advocates, Inc. (COPAA) /The National Association of Parents with Children in Special Education
Dore' Frances is highly recognized as an outstanding A Educational Consultant. Dore' is admired and respected for her Degrees in Applied Human Development, Child and Family Development and Diverse Families, her strong work ethics and her success as an Advocate. Dore' owns her own Educational Consulting Business in Colorado. The business first started on February 10, 2001 in Califo ia. Dore' has dedicated her life to assisting children and families - giving them advice, a helping hand, insght to solutions and attention, something she never had during her childhood.
Dore's passion in life is to reach out to others as a compassionate advocate to help save the children and assisting familes in crisis who need an out of home placement for their adolescent or teen. Dore' advises famiiles on the best placement options. She spends 12 weeks out of the year traveling to see her clients in treatment and evaluates programs and schools to ensure only the most efficient and family friendly programs are recommended.
Curently her book - HOLDING OUT FOR THE HERO - is in its editing stages and is due to be released in 2015.
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Warning Signs for Teens With Learning Disabilities
Learning disabilities affect the brain's capability to analyze and process information. If your teen is exhibiting the signs of a learning disability, have his doctor check him for hearing or vision troubles to make sure the problem is not physical. If these sensory skills are intact, your teenager most likely is struggling with a learning disability. While this makes it more difficult for your teenager to learn, most schools are willing to adapt to your child's learning disability. There are a few warnings signs to be wary of in regards to learning disabilities in teens.
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Students identified as troubled or troubling tend to flourish in alte ative learning environments
Students identified as troubled or troubling tend to flourish in alte ative learning environments where they believe that their teachers, staff, and administrators care about and respect them, value their opinion, establish fair rules that they support, are flexible in trying to solve problems, and take a nonauthoritarian approach to teaching. 1.Interactions between students and the staff are non-authoritarian in nature. Positive, trusting, and caring relationships exist between staff, and between students and staff.
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Dore Frances, Ph.D. Celebrates A Decade Of Helping Families in Crisis With Troubled Teens at Horizon Family Solutions
In 2001 Dore Frances created Horizon Family Solutions, LLC (H.F.S.) with the intention to help and educate parents during a time of crisis with their teenager. This year Horizon Family Solutions is celebrating over a decade of assisting families. During these ten years, Dore Frances has been asked for her opinion by Seventeen Magazine and interviewed by The Monterey Herald in Califo ia. She also spoke at the Boise High school in Idaho about the dangers of drugs and answered some very tough questions from both parents and teens.
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Danger Signs of Adolescent Suicide
When a teen makes the ultimate decision to take their life, everyone feels the loss. Family members, counselors, friends, teachers, and teammates often feel guilt, confusion and an intense grief. There is always the sense that maybe the suicide could have been prevented if they had seen the signs. Some of these signs may be subtle while others are a desperate cry for help. Learning these warning signs of suicide and reaching out for help can save a teen's life. Changes in Behavior
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How to Make the Best Match When Searching for a Program or School for your Teen
You seek a residential treatment community that will give you or someone you care about a brighter future. The task you face is very different from using the Internet to find an atto ey, new bank, or electrician. It is a complex endeavor – with high emotional and financial stakes. How do you find the best fit between person and program, a fit that can turn a life around? How long should someone keep trying on their own? Should you be conce ed with a program’s location? To what extent should the person being placed be involved in the search and the decision?
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Teens, Alcohol, and Sexual Activity
Teens, Alcohol, and Sexual Activity Impaired Judgment Puts Teens at Risk Teens who drink are more likely to participate in dangerous sexual behavior for a variety of reasons. Help them understand the risks. Alcohol use and sexual behavior are a common but perilous combination for teens. The risks are especially pronounced for young people, who have limited experience with alcohol coupled with limited sexual or social experience and raging hormones. Worse, they may be unaware of the effect alcohol has on their perceptions and decision-making.
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Teenage Anger
Teen anger takes many forms. It may be expressed as indignation and resentment, or rage and fury. It is the expression of teenage anger — the behavior — that we see. Some teens may repress their anger and withdraw; others may be more defiant and destroy property. They will continue their behavior, or it may escalate, until they decide to look within themselves to the roots of their anger. However, teenage anger is a feeling, an emotion, not a behavior. And anger is usually caused by something going on in a teen’s life.
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Teenage Conduct Disorder
"Conduct disorder" refers to a group of behavioral and emotional problems in youngsters. Children and adolescents with this disorder have great difficulty following rules and behaving in a socially acceptable way. They are often viewed by other children, adults and social agencies as "bad" or delinquent, rather than mentally ill. Many factors may contribute to a child developing conduct disorder, including brain damage, child abuse, genetic vulnerability, school failure, and traumatic life experiences.
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Teenagers and Self Mutilation: The Facts
Teenagers and Self Mutilation: The Facts Self-mutilation affects nearly one percent of people in the U.S. Teenagers are particularly susceptible to self-mutilation, with girls being four times more likely to self harm than boys. Over ten percent of teenagers are thought to have at least experimented with self-mutilation. Common methods of self-mutilation include: burning (often with a cigarette) branding bitingrncuttingrnhead banging pulling at skin or hair hittingrnbruisingrnmarking
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Teens That Run Away
National Runaway Switchboard - (800) 621-4000. It's open 24 hours a day and the call is free. There is NO 24-hour waiting period for reporting missing children under 18. The first 48 hours are the most important in locating your child. Running Away is a Serious Problem According to the National Runaway Switchboard, an organization that takes calls and helps kids who have run away or are thinking of running away, one in seven kids between the ages of 10 and 18 will run away at some point.
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The Impact of Bullying
Who is Likely to Become a Bully? Bullying can have a wide-ranging impact on teens - from victims, to those who witness bullying, to the bullies themselves - and affect each one well into adulthood. Bullying can lead teenagers to feel tense, anxious, and afraid. It can affect their concentration in school, and can lead them to avoid school in some cases. If bullying continues for some time, it can begin to: affect teens' self-esteem and feelings of self-worth increase their social isolation, leading them to become withdrawn and depressed, anxious and insecure.r
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HORIZON FAMILY SOLUTIONS Educational Consulting
Solutions and Support For At-Risk Adolescents And Their Families
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Troubled Teen Help
As the Founder of Horizon Family Solutions, Dore Frances, M.A. is a compassionate and experienced advocate, therapeutic consultant and visionary with over seventeen years of experience.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Dore' Frances
- As founder of an aftercare program that helps families with struggling teens and young adults, I have known Dore for the last 10 years. She and I have worked closely together to help many families. Dore is very successful in helping families because she has many skills and strengths. She has lots of experience and travels the country visiting programs and getting to know the people in those programs. This is essential in our business. David Herz, Founder and Executive Director, Colorado
- Honestly, I felt absolutely hopeless when I contacted Dr. Frances. If I did not love this child and see the goodness in him, maybe this would not hurt the way it does. I spent well over a year trying to get help for my adopted son. I had doors slammed in my face at every turn. I personally felt like a pariah for even seeking help. On the other hand, the medical professionals tasked with caring for my son told me I was overreacting. As you can imagine, my regret is enormous in that I waited so very long to look elsewhere. I am happy to have found Dr. Dore Frances. Rebecca Wallin, Minnesota
- I am the Administrative Director of a specialized residential treatment program for adolescent males with sexual abuse issues. Dr. Frances and I first met during a tour of our program about 7 years ago. She was working as an educational consultant for families needing residential placements for their teenage youth. From our initial visit I found the knowledge of Dr. Frances regarding sexual abuse prevention and treatment, to be beyond other educational consultants. We had a long discussion about treatment philosophy and the effects of internet pornography on the youth of today. C. Lynn Loftin, MS, LPC, Utah
- If you looking for a wonderful resource to help you explore the options available for you as a parent trying to do the best thing for your teen who is either out of control or simply not thriving call Dore! She has a wealth of experience and led us through the maze of therapeutic interventions, wilde ess programs, therapeutic boarding schools and next steps. She is passionate about her work and can tune in specifically to what your child and your family needs. We were at our wits end about how to keep our daughter safe in what was an escalating series of scary events, unhealthy choices, and our lack of capacity to have sufficient influence over her behavior. Dore picked out programs suited to her personality and needs. She held our hand through the process. And now our daughter is a mature, sober, high functioning young woman with a close and loving relationship with us. SP Psychologist, Boulder, Colorado
Contacting Dore' Frances
Horizon Family Solutions
Dore E. Frances, PhD
Advocate
Educational Consultant
Therapeutic Consultant
(303) 448-8803
www.horizonfamilysolutions.com
How to get started
When you call during business hours (Monday thru Friday 8:30am to 5pm MTN), we will immediately begin working on a plan to find a more permanent situation for your child; this is where our team approach will really help to expedite and focus the placement process. When you call in the evening, on a holiday or weekend, someone will get back to you within 8 hours. Dr. Frances has been working with families in crisis for more than 18 years and has networks of first-rate, proven professional resources to put to work helping you and your child.