Mental Health Awareness Month: Spotlight on Teens

May is Mental Health Awareness Month Mental Health Awareness Month was established in 1949 to create awareness of the tremendous impact mental health has on our well-being.  According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration SAMHSA, mental health “includes our emotional, psychological, and...

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Head Start Awareness Month

There are many pressing issues facing us today—racial injustice, division, and a lingering pandemic (just to name a few). Like fires in 3 rooms of the house, it is easy to be distracted from cracks in the foundation. We run around throwing water on the...

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Why We Lead: Encouragement for Active Parenting Programs | by Dr. Popkin

Encouragement for Active Parenting programs! Millions of parents have benefited from parenting education courses, and they couldn’t do it without capable group leaders. But why do they do it? Parents lead by example to raise children who will not only survive but also thrive. For...

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A to Zzz Bedtime Help

This month’s blog was inspired by an (unsolicited) e-mail I received from one of our longtime leaders, Pat Lonergan, Teen Parenting Instructor at Nature Coast Technical High School in Florida. She wrote and I wrote back: Hi Doctor Popkin, I became an Active Parenting Trainer...

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Taking a fond look back at Free the Horses: A Self-Esteem Adventure

Letters. We get letters. “Recently some of my old classmates were chatting about the Free the Horses program that we went through when we were little,” wrote Keith from Michigan. “I was thinking it would be fun to have a get-together with some of these...

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The Effects of an Experimental Program on the Self-Esteem of Second-Grade Children as Measured by the Piers-Harris Children’s Self-Concept Scale

Active Parenting Final program evaluation report

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