FROM AGGRAVATION TO PRESERVATION

by Dennis Poncher

Overview

From Aggravation to Preservation” is a history of Because I Love You (B.I.L.Y.) the parent and youth support groups success stories over the past 30 years. Learn many of the steps taken by Recovering Parents dealing with youth at risk. Read of the villages where parents entered our doors as part of the problem and what they learned and put into practice to become part of the solution.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015920246
Publisher:	Dennis Poncher
Publication date:	11/04/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	172 KB

About the Author

Dennis Poncher was born in Chicago, Illinois in June of 1938. At the age of four his family moved to Southern California where he began his education including two years of college before entering the US Army. After his completion in the military, Dennis married his childhood sweetheart Joyce Goldstein and within two years, moved to their dream home in the San Fernando Valley where they began raising a family, daughter Lesli Renee, and son Ian David.

It was during the seven years of owning his own dress shops that his wife Joyce lost her battle with Diabetes and passed away two days after her 41st birthday. Dennis was left with two out of control teens. Thirteen-year-old Ian was expelled from school for using and selling drugs while his almost sixteen-year-old sister announced at her mother’s funeral that she was 2 months pregnant.

After exhausting all resources including therapy and a local parenting group, Dennis opened ”Because I Love You” (BILY) in March of 1982 with just 8 parents. Since that time, BILY has blossomed to 14 states and Canada with over 700, 000 parents and youth who have gone through his programs. He also authored a book that parents obtain in the meetings as well as creating a weekend family encounter that he runs yearly, called Open Your Heart-Communication Camp. He has currently completed his autobiography titled “Daddy, I’m Pregnant” which is in the hands of a publishing agent.

In addition to running meetings, he also answers hot line calls daily along with numerous e- mails on BILY’s web site at www.bily.org., partially due to the repeated media referrals from national columnists such as Dear Annie and Dear Abby. He has been a guest on Oprah, Geraldo, Good Morning America and many more local and national media exposures as well as a key note speaker at numerous schools, hospitals and mental health conventions. It is his long-term goal to see BILY groups in every community across our nation…..