Guidance → Leadership Opportunities Can Help a Troubled Youth
...if they would get the boy involved in something in which he can be a leader and influencer...(such as Shabbos parties for children who are a few years younger than him and the like), this would increase his confidence and stability, since he would see that he is succeeding and there are those who listen to his voice and his guidance...several of the problems would go away on their own...
...explain to them (the parents, may they live) that every increase in matters of Torah and Mitzvos brings an increase in the blessings of G-d, blessed be He, in what’s needed for a person and his household...
(From a letter of the Lubavitcher Rebbe King Moshiach Shlita, Igros Kodesh vol. 18, pg. 407)
