Youth at Risk

Dangers of Text Messaging and Driving

Updated Fri, Jun 10, 2011 by Jen Watson

Watch AT&T's new 10-minute documentary titled "The Last Text," featuring stories of real individuals whose lives have been adversely affected by texting behind the wheel.

Take out your wireless device. Read the last text message you received out loud. Would reading or responding to that text message from behind the wheel of a moving vehicle be worth the risk of getting into a car accident or worse? Chances are, the text message could wait.

View The Last Text

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Top 10 health concerns for kids; Obesity, stress, teen pregnancy worsening

Updated Wed, Aug 18, 2010 by jpollio

C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health lists top 10 health concerns for 2010; most adults who rate childhood obesity, stress, and teen pregnancy as big health problems think these problems are getting worse.

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Categories: Youth at Risk

Underage Drinking

Updated Tue, Aug 17, 2010 by Patrick Donovan

This ready-to-use session encourages high school students to explore what they believe about underage drinking and how that conforms or rejects what the Church teaches.

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Categories: Youth at Risk

Internet Safety

Updated Tue, Aug 17, 2010 by Patrick Donovan

This ready-to-go session invites high school students to explore ways to recognize dangers on the internet. In addition, participants will evaluate their current level of online safety and explore ways to become safer online.

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Categories: Youth at Risk

Cutting and Self Injury

Updated Tue, Aug 17, 2010 by Patrick Donovan

This ready-to-go session helps high school students understand the dangerous practice of self-abuse (also known as cutting), and explore why this practice is affecting so many of their peers.

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Teenage Insults, Scrawled on Web, Not on Walls

Updated Sun, Aug 1, 2010 by admin

New York Times writes about Formspring.me, a relatively new social networking site, has become a magnet for comments, many of them nasty and sexual, among the Facebook generation.

View NY Times: Teenage Insults, Scrawled on Web, Not on Walls

Categories: Youth at Risk

Social Networking: Building Good Connections

Updated Sun, Aug 1, 2010 by admin

CYM has developed a ready-to-use session that invites high school students to develop the skills needed to effectively and safely navigate their ways through social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.

Categories: Youth at Risk