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Guiding people on the path to change.

Former New York Giant Charles Way spent part of his vacation on Thursday July 19, 2007 speaking to area troubled youth about making positive changes in their lives, setting goals and achieving success.

Bethesda PA Treatment & Healing located in Montoursville was the setting for this motivational and enthusiastic message about responding to the game of life with hard work and discipline in order to achieve success.  

Way explained the need for the youth to realize that they are not getting further ahead with their negative behaviors and may in fact be continuing a negative family pattern. Change requires a different way of doing things.

He cautioned that the time to change is now, not tomorrow because tomorrow may be too late and they may have missed out on something really great. He encouraged the youth by stating that they will be surprised how many adults will want to help them when they begin to show genuine and sincere efforts to make positive change, and to want to do better in their lives.

Way did an excellent job of illustrating his points with the teens even including them in role-play scenarios about how they should be responding to negative life events or stressors. He stayed for photographs and to sign autographs following the message.

Clinical Supervisor Cleveland Way of the Montoursville Bethesda center arranged for his brother Charles Way to visit and speak to the youth, eight of whom are interested in playing for area high school football teams. Charles Way ’s message supported Bethesda ’s mission of “guiding people on the path to change.”

Since 1983, Bethesda Day Treatment Center, Inc. now doing business as Bethesda PA Treatment and Healing has demonstrated effectiveness in dealing with the most difficult delinquent and dependent youth and their families, according to a news release.

The agency’s corporate office, under the direction of President Jerilyn Keen, is in Turbotville.