Presented by: Dr. Jane Bluestein, Instructional Support Services, Inc.
Learn how to minimize conflict and maximize cooperation with hard-to-reach kids and hard-to-reach parents. At this training, discover nontraditional methods to improve the social emotional climate of your program environment.
The Bank It program empowers teens and parents to talk about and make positive choices with their money. Bank It includes workshops on 12 different money topics that you can mix and match to meet the needs of families in your community.
Summarizes research on Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a worksite-based parenting program designed by RAND and University of California at Los Angeles researchers that improves communication between parents and their adolescents on sexual health.
A new Child Trends brief finds that relationship quality between parents is consistently and positively associated with better outcomes for children and families. This brief, Parental Relationship Quality and Child Outcomes across Subgroups, notes that the positive association holds across many subgroup comparisons, including income, marital status, parental education, and race/ethnicity. These analyses were completed using data from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health
Responding to increasing awareness and concerns, the MIT Young Adult Development Project was created in 2005 to analyze, distill, and disseminate key findings about young adult development, findings that shed light on the unique strengths and dramatic challenges for this extraordinary period.
Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at all stages of develop. Their mission is to improve outcomes for children by providing research, data, and analysis to the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children, including program providers, the policy community, researchers and educators, and the media.
The MIT Young Adult Development Project was created to capture the powerful new research findings that are emerging about young adulthood and to make these insights more accessible to those who need them, including colleges and universities, employers, parents, human service providers, and young adults themselves.
