If you’re looking for ways to reduce your family’s screen time and create more quality time, you might have noticed just how hard it this is. Fortunately, there’s a trick to it. Psychologists have studied how we form new habits. Here are five easy steps.
Screen devices are a bit like sugar. In large amounts, they can do harm, but in smaller amounts, the right kind is essential.
Whatever you do on your smartphone, whether it’s browsing Facebook, watching YouTube, or playing Jetpack Joyride, you probably know just how hard it is to put your phone down. The most popular apps are designed to capture attention and keep you locked in. You may plan to leave your phone on the table or spend … Read more
Over the holidays, while resisting a second serving of dessert, you might find an even bigger temptation in screen technologies like smartphones, tablets, laptops and video games. The holidays are a perfect opportunity to form memories together as a family that will last a lifetime, but family time can get lost as children and parents … Read more
September 17th-27th, 2019 Youth Speak Out International expanded its Life’s Purpose™ Youth Empowerment Program into The Department of Juvenile Justice, Palm Beach County Detention Center. Life’s Purpose™ is a social and emotional youth enrichment program. Through group discussions, mentoring, self-exploration, and collaboration with peers and adults, students created their purpose / mission and life goals. … Read more
Middle and High School students in Palm Beach County empowered their friends and families to put down their on-screen technology and communicate face-to-face.
Our youth program, Make the Community Aware Through Technology, will educate more than 1500 elementary, middle and high school afterschool program students from October 2017 to September 2018. The participating students will create powerful and informative Public Service Announcement (PSA) videos to explain the key components of this social and emotional learning program.
Check out these videos created by teens in YSO INT’s afterschool media literacy programs in 2016.
The staff at Youth Speak Out International facilitated Making the Community Aware Through Technology media program for more than 900 elementary, middle and high school students in afterschool programs throughout Palm Beach County, Florida. Below are samples of the Public Service Announcements created by the students: