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In the age of smartphones, teens are so immersed in media that it may seem hard to get their attention. SAMHSA recently found that one in five parents of teens didn’t think they had much influence on whether their teen used substances. Even worse, one in ten parents of teens hadn’t spoken to their child about substance use within the past year.

This blog post was originally featured in the Children’s Safety Network blog. The full blog post is available here.

Many struggling children among us face a range of challenges—from mental health disorders to poverty, violence, and unstable home lives.

One familiar (and frustrating) barrier to providing the help and support these children need is the uncertainty around whether and how to legally share information between child-serving agencies, including schools, mental health services, law enforcement, child welfare agencies, and the juvenile justice system.

October is National Bullying Prevention Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness of the devastating effects of bullying and the power of prevention.

With bullying in the spotlight, this can be a good time to start a conversation with your kids and other adults about bullying, or to think about your own role in bullying prevention. Our Preventing Bullying website can help parents, educators, and community members learn about bullying and find tools to prevent it before it even starts.

Over the past few months, our office has been bustling with activity as we develop a suite of interactive e-learning tools—and now that they are live, we can’t stop talking (and blogging) about them! To this point, I’d like to share our approach to Positive School Discipline and introduce our new Positive School Discipline website and course.