A Place Called There: A Facilitators Guide to Mentoring Teens

Every year, young people walk into rooms run by adults who care deeply and still don't know what to say next.

A Place Called There: A Facilitator's Guide to Mentoring Teens is the manual for the people doing the hardest work in a child's life — the mentors, diversion counselors, and youth workers who sit across the table from a kid the system has already labeled and refuse to accept that the label is the whole story.

Built around the T.H.E.R.E. framework — Time, Habits, Environment, Responsibility, Educate — this guide gives you a structured, repeatable way to move a young person from where they are to where they could be. It's not theory. It comes out of twenty years of casework by a former Special Victims detective turned ordained minister, distilled into sessions you can actually run.

Inside, you'll find:

• A session-by-session walkthrough of the five T.H.E.R.E. pillars

• Discussion prompts and exercises designed for real youth, not idealized ones

• Guidance for facilitators with no clinical background

• A trauma-informed approach grounded in both investigation and faith

Nobody ends up anywhere by accident. Somebody just has to show them the blueprint. This is yours.