Parenting For Success: How to Keep Your Child Healthy,
Happy and Engaged in Life

Dr. Pope is the author of Doing School; How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students. She is Co-Founder of Challenge Success Project, Stanford University
The trailer of Slipping Behind, a Sundance Film Festival submission and documentary feature film by Reel Link Films (produced and directed by Vicki Abeles) will begin our Conference by bringing us directly inside the hearts and minds of our American teens, educators, parents, psychologists, economists, and historians.
Workshops
Six practical, proactively geared workshops led by various experts in teen stress will follow

 Denise Pope, PhD | Healthy Kids/Healthy Homes/Healthy Schools

 Annie Fox, M Ed | Too Stressed to Think: Peer Acceptance, Rejection, and Romance
Author of Too Stressed To Think! And other teen self help books

 Nicholas Carlise, MFT, JD | Bullies, Ice Queens, and Cyberbullying; Facilitating Inclusion and Acceptance in a Diverse Community
Director of No Bully

 Kyra Bobinet, MD | Teen Speak: Communication Tools That Bridge the Gap Between Parents and Teens
Author of the blog and practice booklet Teen Whispering

 Regan McMahon, MS | Activities Gone Haywire; Parenting For Balance
Author of Revolution in the Bleachers, Chief Book Editor for SF Chronicle

 Dave Talamo, MFT | Creating a Meaningful Life: Adolescent Development and the Discovery of Purpose
Founder of Wilderness Reflections