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Next Meeting: May 12, 2023, 8:30-10:30 a.m., Kent (coffee social during the first 15 minutes)
Join the KSPTA for a cup of coffee while discussing important topics that affect our school community. This is a great opportunity to get relevant updates and connect with other parents. Everyone is welcome!
Helping Kids Navigate Friendship Ups and Downs with Resilience - Recording Available
Phyllis L. Fagell, LCPC is a school counselor at Sheridan School in Washington, D.C., a therapist who works with kids and families in private practice at The Chrysalis Group in Bethesda, Maryland, and an author and journalist. She's the author of the bestselling books Middle School Matters and Middle School Superpowers and a frequent contributor to The Washington Post. She also freelances for publications including Psychology Today, CNN, Working Mother, U.S. News & World Report and Your Teen, and her ideas have been shared in outlets including The New York Times,The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Edutopia, Mindshift, and NPR. Phyllis speaks at schools and organizations nationally and internationally on a broad range of topics related to counseling, education, and parenting. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband and three children.
Learn more about Phyllis L. Fagell, LCPC atphyllisfagell.com.
Let's Talk Series: Mental Health & Underage Substance Use
May 3, 2023, 7 p.m. PST
Let's Talk Community Discussion Series
- Learn more & register here - Sponsored by Marin Healthy Youth Partnerships.
- View flyers in English and Spanish.
The last Let's Talk Discussion on Mental Health and Underage Substance Use features Dr. Emily Tejani, a guest expert who trained at the Yale University Department of Psychiatry and board certified in three medical specialties: child & adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, and addiction medicine. Student speakers include Sophia DeMoe, a sophomore at Novato High School and MHYP intern, and Leo del la Huelga, a sophomore at Tamalpais High School and MHYP intern.
Live Spanish translation will be available.
Evidence-Based Parenting with Emily Oster
May 4, 7-8:15 p.m. PST
Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University and the author of Expecting Better, Cribsheet, and The Family Firm. Her books analyze the data behind choices in pregnancy and parenting. Oster’s academic work focuses on health economics and concerns methods for learning causal effects from observational data. Oster currently serves as a Faculty Research Fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research and was named to TIME’s list of “The 100 Most Influential People of 2022.” Her latest book is The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years.
Sponsored by The Vera and Harold Stein Lecture Series on Advancing Children’s Mental Health with The Center for Children and Youth.
Real Talk Matters: Fighting Fentanyl and Its Impact on Mental Health
- May 9, 2023, 4 p.m., Zoom
- Live Spanish interpretation
Join us for a discussion on the connections between substance use and mental health, and raise awareness for both as we celebrate May Mental Health Month and National Fentanyl Awareness Day. For questions, contact: info@odfreemarin.org.
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