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This engaging, best-selling resource by Earl Hipp provides teens with important information on how stress affects daily life, from our health to the choices we make. Additionally, this youth-friendly guide book offers several practical activities to develop behaviors that manage stress in a healthy way including relaxation skills, time management, assertiveness, and building supportive networks of peers and adults.

The Complete Guide to Service Learning is the go-to resource in the fast-growing field of service learning. It is an award-winning treasury of service activities, community service project ideas, quotes, reflections, and resources that can help teachers and youth workers engage young hearts and minds in reaching out and giving back.  This is an excellent resource for the classroom, out-of-school time, youth-serving organizations, or as a family.

This strengths and competency-based curriculum includes a strong youth development philosophy and current best practice components that incorporate work in diversity and independent living/life skills.

The "Noodle Book" is a combination of adapted activities and newly created activities that use the foam pool noodle as a prop. None of the activities is meant to do in the water. Approximately half of the book contains icebreaker and energizer games and the other half contains problem-solving activities.

A best seller! All 38 activities are new in content or scenario and have been effective with thousands of work teams. Each experiential activity comes with facilitator and participant instructions. Includes game templates that may be copied.

“Experiential education and challenge programming can be one of the most effective pro-social developmental tools available today. Your ideas along with mine and all my contributing friends will create new ways to look at the world and all its wonder.”

After the first "Noodle Book" became popular, Chris and Sam started getting descriptions of new activities from around the world. People also requested activities they could do in the pool. So... this new noodle book contains new games, problem-solving activities, water activities, variations, and some "just for fun" activities. There are actually 55 more ways to use your noodle in the book, but who's counting? Also included are the plans for making your own noodle cutter!

“Implementing the ideas in Connecting Children to Nature: Ideas and Activities for Parents and Educators will go a long way toward creating a nature-rich future.” 
—Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and The Nature Principle, Chairman Emeritus of the Children & Nature Network

This fun, affordable, and ready to use guide contains over 500 service ideas for young people who want to make a difference. All of the activities in the book are presented in an engaging, youth-friendly format, and the guide is endorsed by Youth Service America.

LGBTQ is the indispensable resource for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning teens—and their allies. This fully revised and updated third edition includes current information on LGBTQ terminology, evolving understandings of gender identity and sexual identity, LGBTQ rights, and much more. Other advice covers topics such as coming out, confronting prejudice, getting support, making healthy choices, and thriving in school and beyond.

Interesting to read and easy to use, inviting teens to learn about the laws that affect them and consider their rights and responsibilities. Especially useful for mid to late teenage youth.

Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences has revolutionized the way we think about being smart. Written by an award-winning expert on the topic, this book introduces the theory, explains the different types of intelligences (like Word Smart, Self Smart, Body Smart), and helps kids identify their own learning strengths and use their special skills at school, at home, and in life. As kids read the book, they stop asking “How smart am I?” and start asking “How am I smart?”

Cassandra is hassled by her friends for sitting with the “wrong” kids at lunch. Jennifer gets harassed because she’s overweight. Dwan’s own family taunts her for not being “black enough.” Yen is teased for being Chinese; Jamel for not smoking marijuana. Yet all of these teens find the strength to face their conflicts and the courage to be themselves. In twenty-six first-person stories, real teens write about their lives and teenage peer pressure with searing honesty. They will inspire young readers to reflect on their own lives, work through their problems, and learn who they really are.

Every teen can be a leader. That’s because leadership is not just about taking the lead in big ways, but in everyday small things, too. The twenty-one sessions in this youth leadership curriculum guide teens to explore ethical decision-making, team-building, what it means to be a leader, how to work with others, risk-taking, communication, creative thinking, and more. Choose the sessions that seem best for your class or group, or explore leadership skills through an entire school year. Includes reproducibles, the Everyday Leadership Skills & Attitudes Inventory (a student inventory of leadership skills and attitudes), evaluation tools, and exams. Requires use of the student book Everyday Leadership.

Leadership is not just about taking the lead in big ways, but in everyday things, too. Written and experiential activities help teens discover their own leadership potential and develop skills that guide them to act responsibly and make a difference in the world around them. A Facilitator's Guide is also available on this topic.

Designed for youth 4-12. All families change over time. Sometimes a child gets a new foster parent or a new adopted mom or dad. They need to understand they can remember and value their birth family and love their new family, too.

Teach social skills and enrich classrooms to reduce problem behaviors and nurture growth.

Develop and strengthen essential emotional intelligence skills in adolescents with this practical, hands-on resource.

Child welfare professionals may use this book to provide suggestions to caregivers about teaching life skills to their children.

When the going gets tough, it’s time to get gritty. Written by a clinical child and school psychologist and based in the latest research, The Grit Guide for Teens will help build perseverance, resilience, self-control, and stamina.

Like A Future Near Me, but written specifically for American Indian youth, this pocket workbook asks 100 questions the answers to which can guide Indian youth through two worlds: their tribal community and the larger society.