Umm, is there, like, a preteen in your life?

Then you should know about the Preteen Alliance.

Mention the word “preteen,” and almost everyone has a story. Between the ages of 9-13, youth go through tremendous change -- physically, cognitively and emotionally. At the same time, research shows that the attitudes and behavior patterns developed during these years can have lasting impacts into adulthood. Learn more about the Alliance >>

What’s New with PreteenS

8.10.11

Just Updated: Resource Guide for After-School Programs

The companion Resource Guide to the report, Putting It All Together: Guiding Principles for Quality After-School Programs Serving Preteens, has just been updated! This online Resource Guide provides recent research and tools to help service providers strengthen their after-school programs, particularly those serving preteens. The guide is organized around the six principles of quality after-school programs that are described in the above-mentioned report from 2008. Both the report and this companion guide were commissioned by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health and produced by Public/Private Ventures. Learn More>>

2.11.11

New Rule: Shots Before School

Guest Post by Mark Sawyer, MD, President of the California Immunization Coalition

Preteen Vaccine Week starts Feb. 13

California 7th-12th graders are now required to get a whooping cough shot before starting school. Whooping cough (also know as pertussis) has been widespread in California during 2010. In fact, there have been more cases reported in California in 2010 than in more than 60 years.

To help protect your children and others from whooping cough, a new California law now requires middle school and high school students to be vaccinated against whooping cough starting July 1, 2011.

For the 2011-12 school year only, all students entering 7th ¬- 12th grade will need proof of a whooping cough booster shot (Tdap) before starting school. It's recommended that children receive the Tdap booster shot at 10 years of age and older. Neither the Td (tetanus, diphtheria) vaccine nor the DTaP whooping cough shots your child might have received before kindergarten meet this requirement. Learn More>>

3.9.10

Social Emotional Learning Report Published in Education Journal

The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health and the Preteen Alliance commissioned the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) to examine the research on effective strategies to promote social and emotional skills among elementary and middle school students. An article based on this research has been published in the Winter 2010 issue of Better: Evidence-based Education. Learn More>>

2.18.10

Just Updated: Resource Guide for After-School Programs

The companion Resource Guide to the report, Putting It All Together: Guiding Principles for Quality After-School Programs Serving Preteens, has just been updated! This online Resource Guide provides recent research and tools to help service providers strengthen their after-school programs, particularly those serving preteens. The guide is organized around the six principles of quality after-school programs that are described in the above-mentioned report from 2008. Both the report and this companion guide were commissioned by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health. Learn More>>

1.6.10

Study: 1 in 4 CA Children May Live in Poverty This Year
– 850,000 More Than in 2008

More than a quarter of California's children could be living below the stringent federal poverty level this year, according to projections from a Duke University study released by the Foundation. The projections suggest that as many as 2.7 million California children may live in households where earnings are less than $22,000 per year for a family of four, an increase of about 850,000 children since 2008. The study also includes projections of poverty for Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Learn More>>

 

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