by Joanna Jullien | Dec 7, 2018 | addiction, Anxiety, Children & Teens Problems & Pitfalls, Children's Health & Mental Health, Faith, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parenting, Relationship, Sexting, Social Media, Substance abuse prevention, Suicide, Teen drug addiction, Uncategorized, Wisdom
Key points: When parents criticize, judge and condemn other people’s children and their parents for things that disturb the peace (depression and anxiety/sexting/drug use/crime/bullying), the signal sent to youth is that it is not safe to talk about anything happening...
by Joanna Jullien | Nov 21, 2018 | addiction, Children's Health & Mental Health, Children's mental health, Faith, Family, Parenting, Substance Abuse & Addiction, Substance abuse prevention, Teen drug addiction, Teen Drug Use, Uncategorized, Wisdom
As someone who has a passion for establishing open communication about the adult issues impacting the lives of youth and families, I want to share a community’s hopeful response to the opioid epidemic which has touched every family and community in some way. Last...
by Joanna Jullien | Nov 7, 2018 | addiction, Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Faith, Family, Internet addiction, Parent-child communication, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Recovery, Social Media, Substance abuse prevention, Teen Drinking, Teen drug addiction, Teen Drug Use, Teenagers, Uncategorized, Wisdom
Executive summary Suffering is a part of the human condition. And families have power to decide what to think about and how to respond to suffering. Brain science tells us that addiction is a form of suffering; it is a pathological relationship to intoxication* making...
by Joanna Jullien | Jun 4, 2018 | addiction, Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Cyber Safety, Discipline, Eating disorders, Faith, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parent-child communication, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Social Media, Substance abuse prevention, Teen Drinking, Teen drug addiction, Teen Drug Use, Teenagers, Uncategorized, Wisdom, Youth Suicide
This article features my remarks at the annual meeting of the Raising Placer/Coalition for Rocklin Youth, hosted at 180 Church in Rocklin, May 17, 2018. I am a founding member of Raising Placer, Coalition for Placer Youth and Coalition for Rocklin Youth, and currently...
by Joanna Jullien | Mar 13, 2018 | addiction, Cannabis use among youth, Children's mental health, Parent-child communication, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Social Media, Substance Abuse & Addiction, Substance abuse prevention, Teen Drinking, Teen drug addiction, Uncategorized, Wisdom
Last month, over 900 educators and school counselors convened at William Jessup University in Rocklin to attend the Second Annual Student Mental Health Conference. The event was organized by Wellness Together, a non-profit devoted to student counseling services with...
by Joanna Jullien | Mar 5, 2018 | addiction, Anxiety, Bullying, Children's Health & Mental Health, Children's mental health, Cyberbullying, Discipline, Drug Abuse and Youth, Education, Faith, Family, Internet addiction, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Motivation, Parent-child communication, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Social Media, Teen drug addiction, Wisdom, Youth Suicide
Last week I delivered a training to educators and counselors on how parents can learn to instill learning discipline among tech-savvy youth at a state educators’ conference. Attendees traveled to Rocklin from across the state to learn how to promote mental health...
