How To Identify And Avoid Online Parent-Help Scams

There are some questionable tactics that residential schools and programs are deploying to take advantage of parents in their time of need while searching for help with their struggling teens. We hope these points will help parents identify and avoid online "parent help" scams.

#1 Avoid Organizations providing fake help:
Watch out for websites that are deploying marketing tactics that are really self-serving, posing as call-centers, crisis-help hotlines and/or referral services to desperate parents. The main objective of these fake independent resources is to point the parent to their own schools or group of programs. They promote themselves as looking out for the best interest of the child when in reality they are really only working for the best interest of their contracts and their bank accounts, not the child's needs. They usually sell themselves "abundantly" as the only solution.

#2 Avoid Schools that offer Parents Tuition Reduction for Enrolling other Parents:
Parents should be motivated solely on the evidence of the transformation not only in their daughter, but also in the change that is happening in their family. Once this happens, most parents of a quality school speak with a joy that does not need a monetary reward as motivation.

#3 Avoid Organizations that Sell their Leads:
These "free" hotlines / referral agencies are constantly selling the same school month after month and will always "Abundantly" have the same school "coincidently" showcased as the "School of the Month" every month on the front page of their referral agency's website. With the wide expanse of programs and schools in this nation, they never explain accurately or truthfully why other schools are not referred. These deceitful tactics and the schools that engage & pay for these tactics bring shame for those schools that rely on word-of-mouth without a tuition reduction for parents.

#4 Be Cautious of Free videos, online testing and surveys:
First, these "Free" services / products are ploys to exploit your emotions; secondly they sell your information to schools that will buy your confidential information. The best way to avoid your private information being disclosed and/or being misled is to not go through a third party and to do the research first hand with well organized interview questions. Then seek an Independent Professional or Educational Consultant with your findings. For a list of interview questions and more please click on:
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