As prom season begins, many schools and communities are turning to breathalyzers as another way to try to keep kids safe and alive. One such community is Grafton, Massachusetts – the subject of a Sunday Worcester (MA) Telegram & Gazette story for which Stephen provided comment. The story also included data from SADD’s Teens Today research […]
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Stephen commented recently on the value of the summer camp experience for tweens and teens for a special supplement of the Washington Post: “Camp is tremendously helpful for kids,” says Stephen Wallace, a director of Cape Cod Sea Camps, school psychologist, and author of Reality Gap: Alcohol Drugs, and Sex – What Parents Don’t Know
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On Monday night, April 13th, Stephen attended a Youth Health Connection’s event at Hingham High School and served as a member of five person panel to answer questions from the audience. The featured speaker was Dr. Marisa Silveri of the Brain Imaging Center at McLean Hospital, who spoke about her groundbreaking research on adolescent brain
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On Wednesday, April 22nd, Stephen spoke to parents and teens at an event sponsored by East Williston/Roslyn Community Coalition for Drug-free Youth. He focused on effective parent-child communication as a key to discouraging underage drinking, other drug use, early intimate sexual behavior, bullying, violence, and suicide. He also highlighted the important role that many young
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Stephen spoke to parents and students at Victor Central School in Victor, New York, on Wednesday, April 8th. His “Family Focus” program explored the intracacies of parent-child communication and how it changes during a child’s teenage years. Using anecdotes and statistics from SADD’s Teens Today research, Stephen linked that communication to youth decision-making on such
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Already into college but not yet out of high school. That is the burden of more than a few twelfth graders struggling to reconcile the increasingly incongruous tasks of finishing childhood and starting adulthood – perhaps making senior spring feel to them like, well, the duration of childhood all over again. “It’s this slow build
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On Friday, April 3rd, Stephen served as spokesperson for a White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. The focus of the national radio tour was spring break and some of the ways young people may place themselves at risk during school vacation. Wallace offered tips to parents on how they can
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On April 1st, Stephen delivered the keynote address at the annual Parent Awareness Night, encompassing four schools in the greater Wilmington, Delaware area. He then spoke to students at Sanford School on the morning of April 2nd. Stephen also signed copies of his new book, Reality Gap.
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With prom and graduation season approaching, the Cape Cod Hospital School-Based Health Centers sponsored a timely talk on teen behavior from on Monday, March 30, at the Barnstable High School Performing Arts Center. The keynote speaker for the event was Stephen Wallace, Chairman and CEO of SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), and author of the
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On March 28th, Stephen spoke to camp professionals at the annual American Camp Associaton – New England conference. He discussed youth decision-making and how “natural” mentors – a person not assigned by a formal mentoring program, such as camp counselors – can have a powerful impact on an adolescent’s social and emotional health, safety, and well-being.
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