TEENS
PRESENTATIONS
Encouraging Your Teenagers to Find Their Own Paths:
A Roadmap for Choosing a College, a Career, or Something Different
Rick Fiery, MS, MBA
Materials: Find Your Path (PDF Format)
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Co-sponsored by Wilton Youth Council and Weston Youth Services
Drinking, Smoking, Vaping:
Trends in Teen Use and
What Parents Can Do
Elizabeth Driscoll Jorgensen, CADC
Materials: Trends in Teen Substance Usage (PDF Format)
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Sponsored by Wilton Youth Council in partnership with Wilton Library and SPED*NET Wilton
Healthy Connections:
An Inside Scoop on Adolescents and Addiction
Anthony Nave, LCSW
Materials: Healthy Connections (PDF Format)
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Sponsored by Mountainside Treatment Center. Brought to you by SPED*NET Wilton, Wilton Youth Council, and Weston Youth Services
The Sex Talk:
Beyond the Birds and the Bees
Jessica Feighan
Materials: Helpful Resources (PDF Format)
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Co-sponsored by Wilton Youth Council, Weston Youth Services, Wilton SEPTA, and The Rowan Center
The Art of Hanging Out:
Understanding the Skills Teens Need to Plan and Host a Hang Out
Justyna Balzar, MEd, BCBA
Executive Function Skills:
How Can We Help Our Children in Middle and High School?
Allison Tables, MA, NCC, LPC
Susan Chandler
Materials: EF Skills (Secondary School) (PDF Format)
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Co-sponsored by SoNo Branch Library: SPED MATTERS
How to Help Your Middle- and High-Schooler Develop Organizational Skills for Distance Learning and for Life
Mary Murphy, PhD
Materials: EF Skills for Distance Learning (Middle- and High-Schoolers) (PDF Format)
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ARTICLES FOR PARENTS
by Gail Schwartz, MS, MSW, with Eve Kessler, Esq.
for Smart Kids with LD
Guiding your adolescent toward adulthood starts with a dose of commonsense, coupled with clear expectations, and mutual respect. Most of all it involves not getting dragged into the drama that defines those tumultuous years.
by Gail Schwartz, MS, MSW, with Eve Kessler, Esq.
for Smart Kids with LD
The teen years are notorious for being challenging. They are marked by confusion and uncertainty, which helps explain why teens often make life difficult for those around them, and themselves. Add learning disabilities or attention issues to the mix, and the challenges may be even more difficult to manage.