The Search Institute’s new website offers information for positive parenting and building assets for healthy youth development.

The Healthy Teen Network is hosting 3 webinars, beginning April 14, on evidence-based approaches to teen pregnancy, STI and HIV prevention.

Youth workers need to be more intentional in equipping young people with the skills they need to navigate all types of relationships to prepare them for a healthy, self-sufficient and successful adulthood, reports the Innovation Center.

Child Trends’ evaluation review of programs aimed at helping emerging adults found that education- and career-focused programs were more successful than efforts to address risk-taking sexual and substance abuse behaviors. Mentoring and providing child care and case management were among the most effective strategies.

March 01, 2010 Teen Brains Are Not Fully Connected. The brain’s “white matter” enables nerve signals to flow freely between different parts of the brain.  By Richard Knox, NPR News

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Please sign up for the Meet-Up social media site which John Brackney talked about at our last GLYI meeting. Like other social networking sites, Meet-Up offers the potential for us to become more connected as a group. Here are the directions to join:

1. Go to http://www.meetup.com/Greater-Littleton-Youth-Initative/
2. On the right hand side it says: Join Greater Littleton Youth Initiative – click link…
3. Fill in Name, email address and a password of your choosing (make sure you write down or remember your password) and check agree box
4. Click “Join Us” button.
5. Meetup will then send a verification email to your email address…
6. Follow the link in the email to verify your email address… this will take you to your profile page.
7. Please write a short introduction to yourself and upload a photograph. This will allow fellow GLYI Meetup members to get to know you and to find you at the next meeting. At this stage, you also have the option of receiving emails or not as well as message board updates.
8. Click “Save” button.

You are now a member of the GLYI Meetup group and will receive notices of upcoming meetings, events, and notices (if you so directed). The group’s monthly minutes and reports are available in the “Files” section on the left as well as photos, a list of current members, and a message board.

Please RSVP for meetings on the right hand side of the current Meetup page and add a comment if you wish. The Home page of the GLI Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/Greater-Littleton-Youth-Initative/) lists the next Meetup below the introduction as well as past and future Meetups for the group.

Play, not flash cards, is vital for early learning — this Zero to Three “cheat sheet” offers parents a quick explanation of how children learn through play and how to make the most of playtime.

GLYI Silent Auction & Raffle.

It’s no surprise that tween girls like one-on-one relationships and boys are more interested in groups. A new study suggests those preferences are wired in the brain.

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An unusually large number of people have killed themselves this year in several metro counties, and officials say they think the economy might be to blame.

Arapahoe County recently averaged one suicide a day over a two-week period, said Coroner Michael Dobersen.

Suicides in Arapahoe County are up from 34 through this time last year to as many as 42 so far this year. In at least a third to a half of those, the economy played a factor, Dobersen said.

“We’ve had so many over the past few weeks, it has gotten our attention,” Dobersen said. “The economy seems to be a common thread in some of them.”

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