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This program showcases the real stories of several teens who coped with major disruptions in their lives. One teen describes how her parents’ divorce caused her to rebel in school until, with the help of a school counselor, she rejected her gang-related friends and got her life back on track despite being pregnant.
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Transcript Provided by YouTube:
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everything took a turn we went bankrupt
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and we lost the business and our house
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dad goes I got to tell you something but
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your mother has breast cancer I had no
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idea no idea was coming at all I took
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the pregnancy test and I was in shock I
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started crying I didn’t know what to do
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it’s really important to maintain faith
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in yourself that you really have the
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strength and the ability to make things
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better and also there’s people out there
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that want to help you make things better
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change and hard times are really
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inevitable it’s how you handle the
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changes that really can make a
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difference when there’s a overwhelming
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or traumatic or challenging event in
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your life it’s normal to feel anxious or
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worried or sad or out of sorts or
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overwhelmed that’s totally normal what
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is difficult and may be a problem is if
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that goes on for a long time or if you
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don’t learn ways to manage it and you
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don’t reach out and get help so that you
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can get back on track and use it as an
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opportunity to develop some skills that
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will help you throughout life when you
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and
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to change and problems
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