Podcast (AASR Live)

Connie Persike, who started Supportable Solutions, has over 20 years of experience helping staff, caregivers, and students do better. Connie and her team work as coaches, consultants, bridges between parties, and in whatever capacity needed to ensure that every student gets the care, attention, and support that they need to succeed. 

As a child, Ryan DeLena had difficulty controlling his emotions, and he was placed in therapeutic schools that relied on detrimental methods of behavior modification, such as physical restraint. Nothing helped from a team of doctors to heavy medication. Then, in 2010, Ryan was voluntarily committed to a mental hospital for further evaluation. His parents, Rob and Mary Beth, were counseled to place him in a group home. They refused. This is the story of a misunderstood boy, a father’s growth, and a shared love of the outdoors that formed their unbreakable bond.

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