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All Resources for Audience: Parents and Guardians

Parents, guardians, mentors and other significant adults will find these resources helpful in strengthening their connections with youth.

Bringing Developmental Relationships Home: Tips and Relationship Builders

Bringing Developmental Relationships Home: Tips and Relationship Builders

Every family can strengthen developmental relationships. This booklet offers everyday ideas and activities parenting adults can use to build developmental relationships in their families. Available on the Search Institute's Don't Forget the Families page.

By Search Institute (2015)
Tags: Developmental relationships

Center for Parent and Teen Communication

By The Center for Parent and Teen Communication

Characteristics of Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships

Characteristics of Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships

Website of collected resources including articles, videos, reports, and tools.

By Youth.gov

Developmental Relationships Framework

By the Search Institute

Gender Spectrum

By Gender Spectrum

Healthy Parent-Child Relationships

By OPA

Parent-Child Communication Tip Sheet

Parent-Child Communication Tip Sheet

Tip sheet with ideas for practitioners who want to integrate parent-child communication into their program. Reviews what we know about the benefits of strong positive parent-adolescent communication. 

By FYSB 2016

Parent-Teen Activity Series

Parent-Teen Activity Series

Wide variety of activity ideas categorized by skill or benefit. Each activity explains the benefit to the parent-teen relationship.

By Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Parenting Style and Parent-Child Connectedness Learning Activity

Parenting Style and Parent-Child Connectedness Learning Activity

Learning activities for parent-child connectedness

By ReCAPP

Quiz: Are You Modeling Respect at Home

Quiz: Are You Modeling Respect at Home

Quiz for assessing whether you are in a healthy relationship and modeling respect at home.

Quiz: How do you know if your teen is in an unhealthy relationship?

Quiz: How do you know if your teen is in an unhealthy relationship?
By The RESPECT Challenge.org 2015

School Connectedness Resources

School Connectedness Resources

A variety of concrete resources for school administrators and staff, teachers, and parents to improve a child's feeling that adults and peers in the school care about their learning as well as about them as individuals—an important protective factor. 

By CDC DASH 2015

Talk With Your Kids

By Talk with your Kids

The Keep Connected Program: Building Relationships to Help Your Child Thrive Through Adolescence

The Keep Connected Program: Building Relationships to Help Your Child Thrive Through Adolescence
By ParentFurther.com

Think of a Bear: Talking with Adolescents about Relationships

Shafia Zaloom (2019)

What is "Scaffolding" in Adolescent Relationships?

ETR (2018)

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