Parenting Resources
Materials from Past Presentations
ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE
- Teens, Alcohol, and Reality: Setting the Framework for Health Communication (Slideshow)
- Teens, Alcohol, and Reality: Setting the Framework for Health Communication (Handout)
- Preventing Teen Drug Use (Resources on second page)
- Middle School Drug and Alcohol Education Presentation
COPING WITH LOSS
DEVELOPMENT
DRIVING
EMOTIONAL COACHING
GAP YEAR INFORMATION
SUICIDE PREVENTION
- Warning Signs
- Tips for Talking With People In Crisis
- Talking to Your Child About Suicide
- When a Child's Friend Dies
- Recommended Reading List for Suicide Survivors
- Helping Survivors of Suicide
TEEN WELLNESS
TECHNOLOGY USE
- Technology in the Classroom
- Sexting/Cyberbullying Presentation (slideshow)
- Stop Cyberbullying: A Guide (by Dr. Jo Langford)
- Top Twenty Technology Tips for Teens
- Electronic Screen Syndrone (ESS) and Internet Addiction
- Warning Signs of Internet Addiction
- When to Seek Help
- Internet Safety
- Internet Safety Night Notes
- Parental Controls
- Family Texting Boundaries
- Screenagers
- Parenting Guide
WEBSITES
- American Association of Suicidology
- American Gap Association
- Birds+Bees+Kids (Sex Education)
- Child Mind Institute (Mental Health and Learning Disorders)
- Common Sense Media (Technology)
- Crisis Clinic
- Crisis Text Line
- Forefront Suicide Prevention
- The Healing Center: Grief Support
- Marijuana Talk Kit
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- Mouse Party
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
- OK to Talk (Mental Health)
- Parent Map
- Parent’s Guide to Social Media
- Parents – The Anti Drug
- Partnership for Drug Free Kids
- Raising Teens Project (MIT)
- SAMA: Science and Management of Addictions
- Seattle’s Child
- Seattle Children’s Hospital (Nutrition and Fitness)
- Scarleteen (Sex Education)
- Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress Center at Harborview
- Social/Emotional Development and Parenting Tips from the CDC
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- Teen Link
- Toolbox for Successful Parenting (Laura Kastner)
- Trans Lifeline (Sexual Identity and Orientation)
- Trevor Project (Sexual Identity and Orientation)
- Understood (for Learning and Attention Issues)
- Your Life Your Voice (Asking for Help)
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
- Damour, Lisa – Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
- Farley and Cohen – Prescription for a Health Nation
- Halberstam, David – The Children
- Mindful Magazine
- Riera, Michael – Staying Connect to Your Teenager: How to Keep Them Talking to You and How to Hear What They’re Really Saying
- Roffman, Deborah – Sex and Sensibility: The Thinking Parent’s Guide to Talking Sense about Sex
- Siegel, Daniel - Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
- Steele, Claude – Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
- Willard, Christopher – Growing Up Mindful
Past Speakers
- American Gap Association: Gap Year Options
- Nancy Amidei
- Bruce Brown: Coaching
- Katie Davis: UW Digital Youth Lab
- Maida Chen
- Carol Dweck: Psychologist, Motivation
- Sue Eastgard: Suicide Prevention
- Forefront: Suicide Prevention
- Gender Odyssey
- Gilda’s Club Seattle / Cancer Pathways: Grief Support
- Lori Gradinger: Communicating Effectively
- Kevin Haggerty: Substance Use
- The Healing Center: Grief Support
- Ann Hollar: Mindfulness Instructor
- Laura Kastner: Clinical Psychologist and Author
- Amy Lang: Bird&Bees&Kids
- Jo Langford: Therapist
- Julie Metzgar: Great Conversations
- Kiomi More: Anxiety and Stress
- Parent Trust for Washington Children
- Denise Pope: Challenge Success
- Ryan Redman: Flourish Foundation
- Michael Riera: Parenting Author
- SAMA: Science and Management of Addictions
- Brian Saelens: Seattle Children’s Hospital
- David and Nic Sheff: Authors and Substance Use
- Kathy Slattengren: Parenting Expert and Author
- Ann Steel: Mental Health Counselor
- Catherine Steiner-Adair: author The Big Disconnect
- Stefanie Thomas, Seattle Police Department: Internet Safety
- Kathleen Wareham: Dispute Mediation
- Diana Wiley: Family Therapist
- Anthony Wolf: Child Psychologist and Author