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Families With Teens

Adolescents impact families in many exciting and challenging ways. The Families with Teens program seeks to contribute to building family strengths through improving family communication and decision making, strengthening parent-teen relationships, and increasing parental satisfaction and confidence in their parenting role during adolescence.

 
 

Updates

The Teen Talk fact sheet series has been updated and is now available is different packaging combinations.  Based on customer’s requests, each of the fact sheets will now be available by itself (in packages with 25 copies).  Still have a need for copies of all of the fact sheets?  They will now also be available in packages which contain one copy of each of the 12 different fact sheets.

More information on the Teen Talk Fact Sheets
 

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Talk to Teen About Alcohol Use

Parents of teens typically worry if their adolescent is experimenting with alcohol. That worry is with good cause. Recent studies show that approximately 75 percent of high school students have tried alcohol. Parents can play a big role in prevention.

More information for parents on what they can do

 

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Families With Teens Information Series

These online fact sheets cover topics that every parent of teens care about, like developing parenting skills, building the parent-teen relationship, facing tough issues, and preparing for the future.

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Teen Talk

Teen Talk provides ways for parents to support their teens and healthy life choices. The Fact Sheet Series is designed to help parents talk with their teens. The Take and Teach Lessons help educators work with caregivers of teens to address important issues.

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Thriving With Your Teen

This series offers ideas for parents and parent educators to help strengthen relationships with teens, strategies for being an effective role model, and insight into what teens want their parents to know. Spanish language version available.

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