Audience: Teens
Flipswitch Podcast: Linea and Cinda Johnson
Did you miss the latest Flipswitch: The Bipolar and Depression Connection podcast? Co-host Chris Seale brings you up to speed:
In the News Articles - Summer 2010
The best of news and research articles from publications nationwide, as selected by the Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation, updated weekly.
In the Media - August
Education, Medication, and More
One in Five Preschoolers in the US Demonstrates Mental Health Issues When Entering Kindergarten
Source: e! Science News
Plug In to CABF - RSS Makes It Easy!
RSS is an easy way for you to keep up with news and information. The content you want can be delivered directly and automatically to you. It takes 30 seconds to sign up for CABF's RSS Feeds which can be delivered to you in your browser or email folder. CABF provides a feed for interesting news articles, CABF Blogs, and Flipswitch: for Teens and 20s.
A Birthday Gift You'll Never Exchange
If you have a birthday or anniversary coming up, why not ask your friends to donate to CABF in your honor? You’ll be helping a lot of families, and it’s super easy. You’ll feel great and so will your friends.
What's New With CABF Support?
by Nanci Schiman, MSW, CAPSW, CABF Program Manager
Nanci Schiman, CABF
Program Manager
Expert Chat with Mental Health Youth Advocate Linea Johnson Rescheduled
Join us on Thursday, July 15 from 1 – 2 pm CT. If you are the parent of a teen or young adult you (and your teen) will not want to miss this chat.
The teen brain is a marvel of smarts. It’s just not all filled in (yet).
Smart kids doing stupid things: It’s the teen brain paradox. Extraordinarily quick to learn and rapidly reaching fluency in abstract thought, teens still make bonehead decisions, perhaps more so when routines relax in summer. But that’s because they’re operating with brains that are still a work in progress.
You Only Have One Brain
Jamie Johnston from the Degrassi television series talks about drug addiction after his character "Peter" experiments with methamphetamine.
Personal Future Planning: a Step by Step Guide to Planning for the Transition to Life Beyond High School
Developed by Cinda Johnson, Ed.D., this planning document assists students and their education team in identifing strengths, experiences, aspirations and fears and how these can be applied to setting goals for post graduation.
Online Audio and Video Presentations on Bipolar, Depression, and Other Disorders
The best audio and video mental health presentations from the web, as selected by the Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation.