GPS speaker to offer shift in how adults relate to and support adolescents
On Wednesday, Jan. 22, the GPS Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will present “The Breakthrough Years: A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens” with child development authority Ellen Galinsky.
It will be offered at noon and 7 p.m. via Zoom. Visit gpsparentseries.org/events/ellen-galinsky/ for information and the links to these webinars.
Galinsky comes to GPS with a paradigm shift to understanding adolescence that challenges widely held assumptions and offers simple strategies to better understand youth and help them shine. Discover the inner workings of the teenage mind, and learn what they need and deserve and what young people say they want from us.
Galinsky says that adolescents don’t really want to separate completely from their parents. Rather, they seek a different type of relationship. They want to be helpers, not just the ones being helped.
Galinsky will share how to encourage positive risk-taking in your child, like standing up for themselves or making new friends, and how to promote five essential executive function-based skills to help them succeed.
Continuing professional development units are available for this program.
Galinsky is an authority on work-life, youth voice, child care, and parental development. She’s the award-winning bestselling author of “Mind in the Making” and “The Breakthrough Years.” She is the president of Families and Work Institute and president of the Work and Family Researchers Network.
Galinsky also serves as senior advisor to the Immediate Office of the Assistant Secretary of Youth Mental Health at the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
GPS is generously sponsored by the Emmy Gaffey Foundation, Cebrin Goodman Center, Prevention Leadership Team of the DuPage County Health Department, Duly Health and Care, Glenbard Early Childhood Collaborative, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, KidsMatter, Endeavor Health, Community Consolidated School District 93 Birth to 5 Coalition, DuPage Regional Office of Education, and Webb-Hutter Family Fund of DuPage Foundation.
To be placed on a reminder list for GPS events or submit a question in advance, contact Gilda Ross, student and community projects coordinator, at gilda_ross@glenbard.org or (630) 942-7668.