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David Jernigan, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management and Assistant Dean for Practice at the Boston University School of Public Health, and senior policy advisor for CityHealth. He has worked on alcohol policy issues for more than 35 years at local, state, national and global levels, and written more than 170 peer-reviewed journal articles and contributed chapt...

Carols Perez, JD is the Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging for the Easton Public Schools. We had a great conversation on the importance of belonging and connection for adolescents and how schools, communities and families can help to foster that for everyone.

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Make sure to catch up on everything you may have missed in this last week of sports news.

Beth Furey is the Assistant SPED Director for Stoughton Pubilc Schools and a trainer for the Triple P Positive Parenting Practices program in Stoughton. In this episode we explore the concept of parent traps, behaviors that are super common for parents, but that accidentally reward negative behaviors in our children. We talk about our personal parent traps and some evidence based tips for avoiding...

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Marvel Nemr is a Senior at Oliver Ames High School in Easton. She has a lot to share about the power of prevention for youth and what young people can gain by getting involved in promoting health in their communities! Get inspired by Marvel's passion and check out this fun episode!

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Catch up on everything you missed in the last week of sports with your host TJ

January is a time of transition for many. Transitioning into a new year. In this episode we talk with John Mayo, a Mental Health Clinical Intern and Teresa Tapper, Senior Clinician, both from the Stoughton Youth Commission, about how we can think about transitions as an opportunity to share healthy norms and expectations.

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Dr. Sejal Prajapti is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Assistant Professor at William James College. Drop in our conversation about self-compassion and how to cultivate that for ourselves as individuals and as parents. Learn more about Dr. Prajapti and her work by visiting her website: www.committoyou.org

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Darcy Paiva is the Executive Director of the Easton Branch of the Old Colony YMCA and Rachel Kundicz is the Director of Youth Development for the Old Colony YMCA. Listen in as we talk with Darcy and Rachel about how the YMCA can be a partner to parents and communities in supporting teens and tweens.

Dr. Elizabeth Englander is an award-winning author and the founder and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State University, a Center which delivers programs, resources, and research for the state of Massachusetts and nationwide. She is also a Founding Member of the Social and Emotional Research Consortium (SERC). As a researcher and a professor of Ps...

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Jason Anderson is an independent consultant with an expertise in Motivational Interviewing (among other things) and it was so much fun to learn from him about how tools that used in Motivational Interviewing can be applied to having curious and positive conversations with your teen, even about hard things! For more info Jason recommends the book Motivational Interviewing, by W. Miller & S. Rol...

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Catch up on everything you may have missed in this packed week of sports news.

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We are talking with Georgeann Lewis, an adjustment counselor at Stoughton High School about the ways that teens experience grief and loss, not just around death, but all sorts of transitions. Georgeann shares tips on helping your teen manage loss and to identify when the ways that teens manage lass are not healthy and could use more support.

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In this special edition episode, you can listen in on the Hope and Recovery Panel that we convened in September 2024 for Recovery Month. Take a listen as 3 local parents share their deeply personal and vulnerable journeys of recovery!

To kick off season 2, we welcome Carla Ritz, the Managing Director of the Montana Institute to talk about we kind find and nurture our own positive adult experiences as we journey through the teen years a second time, this time as a parent. Carla shared some incredible wisodom, stories and research that we know you will enjoy! You can find Carla at The Montana Institute, www.montanainstitute.com H...

There is lots of news this week in the world of sports and TJ is here to help catch you up!