Profile of Parent Advocate Sue Scheff™
Sue Scheff™ is a well known parent advocate and the founder of Parent’s Universal Resource Experts, commonly known as P.U.R.E.™ Sue Scheff™ works diligently to stay involved in the world of parent advocacy, and has recently finished writing her first book, Wit’s End™, which chronicles the struggles and tribulations of Scheff while providing information on many important parenting issues.
Sue Scheff™ is a normal, everyday mom, who was thrust into a parent’s worst nightmare, but used her struggle to champion the battle for parent and teen rights. Sue Scheff™’s problems first began when she sent her daughter Ashlyn, who was experiencing serious teen troubles, to an alternative education institute that promised to help her with her issues.
Sue Scheff™ put her trust into this institution, because like many parents before and after her, she believed that these alternative education institutes existed only to help children. Little did Scheff know, but Ashlyn’s entrance into the institution would eventually lead to extreme bodily harm. Ashlyn was severely mistreated during her stay at the institution, which even restricted Scheff’s access to communications with her daughter while she stayed there.
In the end, Ashlyn became extremely sick from the mistreatment she suffered and after Sue Scheff™ was finally able to remove her from the organization she discovered the true extent of her daughter’s abuses.
The organization took Sue Scheff™ to court, but instead of backing down quietly Scheff™ battled them and won, showing that a mother who cares about her daughter can triumph over powerful institutions who are taking advantage of others like her.
Sue Scheff™ used her experiences to create P.U.R.E™ in 2001. Today, P.U.R.E™ is still going strong and helps foster parental networks that connect thousands of parents across the country, allowing them to share their stories and parenting knowledge to help prevent future abuses.
P.U.R.E™ has been extremely successful, and Sue Scheff™’s vision for connecting parents and helping them with their troubled teens is truly coming to light. P.U.R.E™ excels because it doesn’t rely on the detached knowledge of experts but the real experiences and beliefs of parents who have lived through their own parenting drama. P.U.R.E™ is successful because it allows parents to seek help from their peers, who provide them with meaningful advice and share stories that may have never seen the light of day without P.U.R.E™’s help.
The lack of government regulation and intervention in alternate education schools like the one that seriously injured Scheff’s daughter poses a very real problem in our society, and without organizations like P.U.R.E.™ this issue would be completely ignored.