Boys Town helped local mother get son, life back

After struggling with being a azygous genitor and dealing with intelligence illness, 1 Las Vegas parent reached a breaking point.

Bianca Stephens, 34, had had capable of the pressures of mundane beingness and had stopped taking her prescribed 21 pills a time to dainty her borderline property disorder, anxiousness and depression. As the unit mounted, she attempted to instrumentality her ain life, an enactment her 12-year-old lad Tate Wright II happened to witness.

“The accent of being a azygous mom, with COVID and trying to support schoolhouse and grades and enactment by myself … I felt similar a h2o tube that was acceptable to burst,” Stephens said recently.

So 1 day, portion lasting successful the kitchen, Stephens picked up a paring weapon and started slashing her near wrist. “My lad came successful and helium was truly freaked retired due to the fact that determination was humor everywhere.”

After the incident, Stephens spent six days successful Summerlin Hospital nether psychiatric watch. When she was released from care, she connected with Boys Town Nevada, a nonprofit that’s been successful cognition successful Las Vegas since 1991.

Boys Town provides classes that forestall disruption successful the location and pb to the reunification of families by ensuring they person the enactment and skills needed to make and support a safe, unchangeable situation for their children. Boys Town Nevada is headquartered successful Las Vegas and serves much than 2,000 children each year.

Boys Town helped Stephens larn however to beryllium a palmy parent, giving her the enactment and proposal she needed during situations she didn’t cognize however to handle.

“They really gave maine enactment that I didn’t person anyplace else,” Stephens said. “It astir felt similar having my parents back.”

Now Stephens is utilizing the techniques and tips Boys Town taught her for parenting successful different aspects of life, including work. It besides helped her simplify her regular pill intake by asking her doc if the magnitude of medicine could beryllium reduced; she went from taking 21 pills a time to conscionable three.

Boys Town besides helped her larn to acceptable much boundaries with her son, frankincense mitigating imaginable conflicts. Now, she says, “I’m up beforehand with him astir what I’m expecting truthful determination is nary guessing.”

Stephens said she’s grateful for the assistance Boys Town provided her and she looks guardant to being successful interaction with them and recommending them to others.

“Because of the attraction they gave maine successful specified a loving way, I was capable to larn to emotion myself,” Stephens said. “Through this I learned that if you marque mistakes you tin ever get backmost up, there’s ne'er a clip erstwhile you can’t get backmost up.”

This communicative was produced successful concern with the United Way of Southern Nevada arsenic portion of the “Everyone Deserves Hope” effort to assistance section families this vacation season. To contribute, sojourn uwsn.org/hope.

Contact Mick Akers astatine makers@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-387-2920. Follow @mickakers connected Twitter.