Working With Youth - Peer Relationships
Selected resources for practitioners, parents, youth and other stakeholders.
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Assessing peer relations: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
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Describes factors that promote positive peer relations and provides easy-to-use measures for assessing peer relations.
- By Terzian, M. 2012
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Helping Teens Develop Healthy Social Skills and Relationships: What the Research Shows About Navigating Adolescence
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A review of more than 360 research studies detailing intervention strategies found to be effective.
- By Hair, E, Jager, J (Child Trends) 2002
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Helping Teens Navigate Peer Relationships Take and Teach Lesson
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Lesson plans for helping teens navigate peer relationships.
- By University of Minnesota Extension
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OAH Healthy Relationships Website
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Overview and statistics for stakeholders, researchers, practitioners Includes state by state data and resources in these topics: Dating and Sexual Relationships, Bullying, LGBT, Dating Violence, Healthy Friendships, Talking With Teens.
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Peer Mentoring: Harnessing Positive Influence
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Tip sheet for how to use peer mentoring to improve youth health outcomes
- By FYSB 2015
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Relationships First: Creating Connections that Help Young People Thrive
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Summarizes recent research on developmental relationships; notes they are catalytic for effective education, programs and services for children, youth and families; includes 55 ideas for deepening one-to-one relationships.
- By Roehlkepartain E, et al 2017
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Teen Dating Violence: How Peers Can Affect Risk & Protective Factors
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Research summary that concludes programs aimed at preventing teen dating violence or promoting healthy teen relationships more broadly are likely to be most effective if they take into consideration the potential ways in which peers and peer contexts shape teens’ experiences within close relationships.
- By Oudekerk B, et al 2014
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The Exchange
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Forum to exchange information on order to advance knowledge, collaboration and partnerships to prep teens for the future.
- By FYSB
