GPS speaker to give tips on fostering hope and connection with teens, tweens
On Thursday, Oct. 17, the GPS Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will present “Rescuing Our Teens: 8 Solutions to Our Crisis of Disaffected Youth” with clinical psychologist John Duffy.
This event will be presented in a Zoom webinar at noon, and a hybrid in-person event at 7 p.m. at the Glen Ellyn Public Library and online. Go to the GPS Parent Series website, gpsparentseries.org/events/john-duffy/, for information and the links to these events.
When Duffy began noticing a sense of hopelessness and disconnection in young people, he went to work to find out why. To assist families, he developed eight practical parenting steps for dealing with the common issues that teens face. His most recent book, “Rescuing Our Sons,” gives new perspectives and insights on the teenage brain.
Duffy will explain adolescent behavior and offer methods for raising youth motivated to overcome depression and anxiety and avoid risky behaviors. He will discuss strategies to become the effective, confident parent adolescents need and equip them with life skills to create a bright future.
Duffy is a clinical psychologist and nationally recognized expert in self-awareness, relationships, and parenting. He also is the author of three number-one bestsellers: “The Available Parent,” “Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety: Raising Happy Healthy Humans,” and “Rescuing Our Sons.”
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.
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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.