Family Hope Line | Wendy Riddle | Family Advocate

With passion and determination, Wendy has been serving struggling families for over 18 years. She has served as a Youth Pastor, CASA Worker, Special Needs Family Advocate, Court Ordered Parent Coach, as well as working in a therapeutic boarding school for struggling teens for 8 years.

With extensive experience in Personality Insights, DISC – Certified Love & Logic Facilitator - 6 Seconds - Emotional Intelligence – Five Love Languages – and Arbinger, Leadership & Self Deception, Wendy is perfectly suited to work with struggling families in today's confusing world.

Wendy, being born to drug and alcohol addicted parents, lived through tremendous abuse before being adopted at the age of 6. As she grew up, she became the troubled teen. The issues that she faced being a troubled teen prepared her to understand today's struggling teens. As a married adult of 2 beautiful children, Wendy then experienced the heartbreak of having her own teen daughter begin to spiral downward in negative choices, defiance, and out of control behavior. When her daughter was 16 years old she had to make the very difficult choice of enrolling her daughter into a therapeutic boarding school.

Wendy states today that her traumatic life-experiences were God's way of preparing her for the future and how He intended to use her to assist hurting families. Wendy has been the abused child, the adopted child, and the parent of a troubled teen. These experiences give her a unique outlook on hurting and struggling families. She truly can say, 'I know how you feel' and work with each family in their own unique situation to find solutions, hope, and peace.

"Being a Family Advocate is a privilege that I do not take lightly. Every family is important, every child is a priority. I will use all of my experience and knowledge to assist each family and meet them at their point of their need."

Wendy currently resides in Utah with her amazing husband, daughter and grandson. Relationships are the most important thing to Wendy. The Family unit as a whole is crumbling in today's society. Wendy's goal is to bring restoration to each family that she works with by assisting each parent in finding the school or program that best suits the family dynamics, issues, and needs.