Healthy Teens: Success in High School and Beyond - Softcover

The publication of Healthy Teens: Success in High School and Beyond represents the continuing effort of Bridge Communications, Inc., to provide both families and professionals with well researched and timely information about raising children in a time of great change and risk. This second edition of Healthy Teens expands a highly successful first edition by including new research on substance abuse and HIV/AIDS, new information on nutrition and learning disabilities, and a new chapter on sexual harassment. The book also includes details for high schoolers on grants and scholarships for college.

One of the most valuable assets of Healthy Teens is its resource section--packed with descriptions of books, web sites, agencies, and hot lines, all organized by category.

Healthy Teens draws on the expertise of 50 caring professionals. The book synthesizes the best thinking of these experts into readable, pithy prose. It is well worth the remarkable attention it has garnered and the efforts of Bridge Communications to reformat and expand this second edition.

I am very proud of the extensive research we did to help families understand the dangers facing kids around sexual assault, including rape and sexual abuse. Six pages in this book will save a lot of lives and grief, if read carefully. The material is frank and direct. Professionals from across the nation reviewed and approved this copy, and they were sticklers about the accuracy of every sentence.

Healthy Teens draws on the expertise of fifty professionals nationally who work with teens. The book is clear, current, non-condescending, and direct; this is not a how-to book, but a book to provide parents and those who interact with teens up-to-date information about the state of a teen's world.

There are good reasons to promote family-school partnerships First, family involvement in a teen's school life means higher grades and higher test scores. Second, school-family partnerships mean higher graduation rates and higher rates of college attendance.