Jeff live at the Baylor School, Chattanooga, TN giving a presentation to parents in the chapel on May 23, 2008. 

Gary Margolis Ph.D. is Director of the Center for Counseling and Human Relations and Associate Professor of English and American Literatures at Middlebury College. His clinical work on the developmental issues of college students has appeared in many journals and national magazines. He is the recipient of the Saint Michaels college clinical psychology award for mental health practice in Vermont. His most recent book, "Fire in the Orchard" was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.

Recently I sat down with FOX News anchor Kim Carrigan to talk about the transition to college.  New colleges and their parents face the challenge of self-reliance and homesickness.  Jeff offers insights and tips into the challenges of the new college student. 

Randy Woods is the Director of Health and Wellness at St. Paul's School in Baltimore.  He teaches 6th grade health science, serves as the 6th grade dean, and coaches JV basketball.  Randy has been associated with St. Paul’s since 1984. During his time here he has served as Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, Director of the Summer Programs, Assistant Middle School Principal, and has coached numerous sports at the Upper and Middle School levels.

Randy talks about St. Paul's K-12 health and wellness program

Dr. Porter-Honnet is the Director of the Stanley H. King Counseling Institute.  The Counseling Institute was founded over 40 years ago to enhance the work of independent schools, which have long been building conscious communities of adults and students. To this day the Institute provides teachers and schools insight, support, and guidance on how to best help students grow.

Jeff was interviewed on January 22 by Jordon Rich of the Jordon Rich Show on WBZ in Boston.  The subject is bulling and cyberbullying.  

 

One on five students in America has used an inhalant to get high by the time he or she reaches the eighth grade. Parents don't know that inhalants, cheap, legal and accessible products, are as popular among middle school students as marijuana. Even fewer know the deadly effects the poisons in these products have on the brain and body when they are inhaled or "huffed."

Today's podcast is an interview with Harvey Weiss, Executive Director of the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition.  The NIPC serves as an inhalant referral and information clearinghouse, stimulates media coverage about inhalant issues, develops informational materials, produces ViewPoint (a quarterly newsletter), provides training and technical assistance and leads a week-long national grassroots inhalant education and awareness campaign.

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An interview with Dr. Jane Bluestein.  Dr. Bluestein is an award-winning writer whose books include Creating Emotionally Safe Schools, 21st Century Discipline, and Parents, Teens, & Boundaries.  Formerly a classroom teacher (in inner-city Pittsburgh), crisis-intervention counselor, and teacher training coordinator, Dr. Bluestein currently heads Instructional Supports Services, Inc., a consulting and resource firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Recently the Office of National Drug Control Policy released good news from the most recent survey of adolescent alcohol and other drug use. Although we are seeing declines, underage drinking continues to be a problem in every community resulting in loss of life, vandalism, unsafe sex, academic problems, and more. Underage drinking is a complex social issue and the solutions are just as complex.  A growing body of research is pointing towards an effective drug prevention program needs to include a broad-based approach involving all the stakeholders in the community.  Tonight I'm please to welcome to this broadcast Parent Activists Carter Bryan and Sharon Mohr who will discuss one aspect of community and school-based prevention - Parental involvement.   

 

A recent survey conducted by Join Together - a program of the Boston University School of Public Health shows that few teachers believe that alcohol and other drug prevention programs work.  Only 2 percent of more than 3,700 respondents felt that their school-based prevention programs were effective.  The report says that teachers are skeptical of the prevention programs they deliver.  It goes on to say that teachers cite the need more relevant study materials, more time to do prevention, more support, and more training.  

Although more training and enhanced study materials would certainly do no harm, how does this change the current destructive belief permeating our schools and our culture that drug prevention doesn't work?  It is not a matter of more time, more study materials, or more training, but a need for a fundamental change in how we define prevention, set prevention goals, and understand how children adopt and reinforce healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

 

 

Underage drinking is a serious issue.  Parents need to take care to reduce all the potential risks in the home.  This podcast provides parents with concrete ideas about how to reduce the risks in their home related to alcohol and other drugs.  The audio recording "Teen Proofing Your Home" is part of a two-disc CD called, "Mom, Did You Ever Try Drugs: Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Parenting, Alcohol and Other Drugs" that can be purchased from our website http://www.jeffwolfsberg.com/new_pages/products.html  or at one of our seminars.