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Working With Youth and Families
Family and home life both play an enormous role in a youth’s development. Every family is different with its own unique set of values and circumstances. As youth-serving professionals, when your appointment is over or the school day ends, what sort of experiences are your teens having? At The Prevention Researcher, we have put together [...]
Read More..>>Poverty and Youth
Three years ago we published our issue on Teen Coping. Within that issue is the article “Adolescent Coping with Poverty-Related Stress” about the effects of poverty-related stress on teens, and how helping youth and families deal with the stress of poverty is one way we can help them escape poverty. This article was the seed [...]
Read More..>>Veterans Day on the Homefront: How are Military Youth Coping?
This Friday we honor the thousands of men and women who have served in our armed forces. When I was younger, Veterans Day was marked with modest school programs attended by older gentlemen from the community, donning caps that stated what branch or war they served in. In the past decade, I have graduated from [...]
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