By: Katie Luce, LMFT Site Director at Redwood High School Family rules and boundaries can provide a sense of stability to teenagers who are struggling to decipher relationships, roles, and even their own personalities. Although they may protest loudly against structure and boundaries, when they have a hand in what is being asked of them, […]
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The Palo Alto Fire Fighters are having a community pancake breakfast at Station 6 on Serra Rd. on Saturday, October 20th from 9am to 1pm. Please feel free to share this flyer far and wide. It will be a great, family and youth-friendly event and the food will be delicious! All the proceeds are going […]
Article from Palo Alto Weekly By: Chris Kenrick Palo Alto youth are emotionally healthier than they were two years ago, according to newly released data from the California Healthy Kids Survey. The percentage of ninth- and 11th-graders who said they had seriously considered suicide in the past 12 months dropped from 18 percent to 11 […]
Held from October 12 to October 21, Bay Area Tasting Week is expanding from its original location of Palo Alto to now include the cities of San Francisco, Sunnyvale, East Palo Alto and Los Altos. Tasting Week will kick-off at the San Francisco Metreon on October 12 with an event for adults developed in collaboration […]
By: Philippe Rey, Psy.D. ACS Executive Director With all the recent news about the importance of nutrition and the increase in childhood and adult obesity and diabetes, have you ever wondered if nutrition could also possibly affect the mental/emotional state of people? Let’s think about this one for a minute! We know that sugars […]
Think of a teenager listening to music and the likely image that comes to mind is a solitary figure with earphones. Most adults appreciate the earphone part—after all, music that appeals to teenagers usually carries far less appeal to those who are older. But think back to the role that music played in your life […]