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Healthy Relationships Protect Teens: A Parent’s Handbook
Publisher(s): Pre-teens and young teens who learn to develop healthy relationship skills are more likely to have healthy relationships throughout their lives. As a parent, you should provide reliable and accurate information to your 11-to-14-year-old about healthy relationships: what a healthy relationship feels like, looks like, and sounds like.
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Parent Guides from ConnectSafely
Publisher(s): This page provides a growing collection of short, clearly written guidebooks that demystify apps, services and platforms popular with kids and teens, written by parents for parents.
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For Family & Friends
Publisher(s): This article gives family and friends of LGBTQ+ youth tips on how to support their family member/friend.
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A Parent's Guide to Sexual Abuse Prevention
Publisher(s):It is the result of years of research on sexual abuse and pedophile tendencies. This guide covers:
Myths and facts of sexual abuse
Molester psychology
How the damage occurs
Why children don't tell
The psychology of abuse-what makes it click
What makes kids a hard target
How to abuse proof your child
Avoiding suggestive questioning
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After the Storm - Tips for Parents
Publisher(s):The job of parenting can become even more stressful after a natural disaster. These one-pagers provide information on healthy coping strategies to help parents regain a sense of control. Available in English and Spanish.
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50 Messages 50 Faces
Publisher(s):Promotores from the Entre Amigos group starred in the bilingual video "50 Messages 50 Faces" as part of their on-going campaign to challenge social norms that perpetuate violence against women.
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Building Healthy Relationships with Media: A Parent’s Guide to Media Literacy
Publisher(s):The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and their partner Trend Micro created a parent’s guide to assist families in starting media literacy conversations at home.
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The Batterer as Parent
Publisher(s):This article looks at the characteristics of men who batter and identifies ways in which these characteristics also influence their ability to parent appropriately. Additionally, the article will address the implications of such parenting for child protective and custody determinations.
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Our Trans Children, Fifth Edition
Publisher(s):This book is an introduction to trans issues especially for parents. Contents include commonly asked questions, commonalities and differences between sexual orientation and gender identity, issues of transgendered youth, and transgender and the law.
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Healing the Invisible Wounds: Children's Exposure to Violence, A Guide for Families
Publisher(s):This publication from the Safe Start Center offers support and guidance for friends of family who suspect a child may have witnessed or experienced violence. Strategies are separated into three age groups: birth-6, 7-11, and 12-18.
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Be SMART on the Internet
Publisher(s):A poster for parents to print out for their children to use as a mat/poster in front of the computer to remember the 5 SMART rules when using the internet and mobile phones.
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What is the Child Tax Credit (CTC)?
Publisher(s): Raising children is expensive—recent reports show that the cost of raising a child is over $200,000 throughout the child’s lifetime. The Child Tax Credit (CTC) can give taxpayers back money at tax time to help with those costs. This page outlines key provisions of the CTC.