Your Child: Risk and Protective Factors, and How Parents Can Help By Melanie Wells The question that haunts every parent - how can I help my children avoid risky behavior? – is not a simple one to answer. According to Rachel Henes, Director of Hallways, a prevention and social-emotional wellness program through the Freedom Institute, …
8:30 am – 12:00 pm Initiating Team: Facilitation Coordinator: Josseline Charas
Teen Scene XXXI – Teen Panel Informs Parents By Adrienne Barr On a chilly night in February, three months after a contentious election and in a new year marked by protests on a variety of fronts, sixteen teenagers from over a dozen New York independent schools gathered on a stage and showed they were more mature …
8:30 am – 12:00 pm Initiating Team: Facilitation Coordinator: Josseline Charas
8:30 am – 12:00 pm 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Initiating Team: Facilitation Coordinator: Josseline Charas
Fathers Forum 2017: You Asked, They Answered By John Lloyd What would happen if you put an engaging group of experts in front of a crowd of engaged fathers and let the audience drive the conversation? The 8th annual PIA Fathers Forum set out to answer that question. It worked. The session went 45 minutes …
8:30 am – 1:00 pm Initiating Team: Facilitation Coordinator: Josseline Charas
Figuring It Out Financially – Savvy Parents Make for Savvy Kids By Pamela Awad We know there are lots of rules - rules of etiquette, rules for writing, rules of the game, even rules for radicals – but did you know there are rules for making your child a money genius? Beth Kobliner does and …
TEEN SCENE 2018 – Teen Panel Reassures Parents By Maneesha Sharma NYC-Parents in Action’s 32nd Annual Teen Scene was held on February 12th, 2018 at the Trinity School, in a packed room of over 400 people, where 16 high schoolers spoke from the heart. They shared only their first names, candidly answering questions from long-time …
Vaping: Essential Information and Strategies for Protecting Youth (Presented in partnership with the Hallways Program of Freedom Institute) By Melanie Wells The explosive rise of vaping and JUULing is a deceptively normalized phenomenon, with research now revealing that these activities are far less benign than users initially assumed. And yet, according to Hallways, parents should …
Your Child: Defining Success and Finding Balance By John Lloyd How do you support your child while he or she discovers and develops a passion? And how can you help your child balance excellence and achievement with a well-rounded and healthy adolescence? This was the focus of the 9th annual PIA Fathers Forum, rescheduled for …
PANELIST BIOS: Christopher La Lima is a Ph.D. candidate in Clinical Psychology at Hofstra University in New York, NY. He specializes in evidence-based treatments for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), disruptive behavior disorders, and anxiety and mood disorders, with an emphasis on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders. He has completed doctoral practica at the New York …
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