A Practical Guide for Parents —
with Shafia Zaloom
Live Online Event
This event will not be recorded
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How to talk with your teen about love, connection and healthy relationships
Join us for an engaging dialogue, answering your questions on healthy teen relationships with practical answers from our expert speaker Shafia Zaloom.
Learn tips for promoting and maintaining open communication with your teen to help you approach this sensitive topic effectively. Gain insight into what it means to be a trusted adult in your teen's life and how to foster an environment of trust and support.
Parents will gain invaluable insights into how to navigate these conversations, including:
Basic safety facts for reducing risk and encouraging safety, and how to respond when your teen is in an unsafe situation
Becoming an askable parent and encouraging connection with other trusted adults
Concrete language and strategies for conversations
Our speaker will address the most common questions and concerns parents have, such as:
What are effective ways to discuss healthy relationships and sexuality with your teen?
What if my teen resists, says it's too awkward and that they already know it all or will learn it in school?
How do I support my teen when they have a broken heart?
How might we rebuild trust in our relationship with our teen(s) if it’s been compromised?
Don't miss this opportunity to equip yourself with knowledge and tools to have meaningful, impactful conversations with your teen about relationships. Submit your questions in advance or during the live Q&A session.
Hear advice on how to support our teens as they learn to make decisions that will keep them and their friends healthy and safe. Shafia Zaloom will share her experience and insights using real-life, teen scenarios, providing concrete language and strategies for engaging in meaningful conversation with our kids about healthy sexuality and relationships, as well as insight into how popular culture, social media, and sexually explicit media impacts how young people navigate their relationships.
Shafia Zaloom provides insight to help parents learn to support their teens in understanding that healthy relationships are built through authentic connection, appropriate boundaries, healthy vulnerability and effective communication.
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Shafia Zaloom is a health educator, parent, consultant and author whose work centers on human development, community building, ethics, and social justice. She is one of the country's leading experts on sexual consent education whose curriculum has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, and more. Her approach involves creating opportunities for students and trusted adults to discuss the complexities of teen culture and decision-making with straight-forward, open and honest dialogue. Shafia has worked with thousands of children and their families in her role as teacher, coach, administrator, board member, and outdoor educator. She has contributed articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and numerous parenting blogs.
Shafia’s book, Sex, Teens and Everything in Between has been reviewed as “the ultimate relationship guide for teens of all orientations and identities.” It is one that “every teen, and every parent and educator - and every other adult who interacts with teens - should read.”
Shafia is currently a health teacher at the Urban School in San Francisco, teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and develops curricula and trainings for schools across the country. She was honored by the San Francisco Giants Foundation in 2018 for her work with Aim High, a program that expands opportunities for students and their teachers through tuition-free summer learning enrichment, and was recently granted CAHPERD’s Health Teacher of the Year Award for 2021. Her work has been featured by many media outlets including: The New York Times, USA Today, NPR, KQED, and PBS.
Our Q&A Discussion will be moderated by Stacy Cohen, Dean of Students, San Domenico School.
Stacy Cohen, Dean of Students at the San Domenico School in San Anselmo, California, has a diverse background that has shaped her into an exceptional educator. Stacy's love for the outdoors and her passion for building meaningful relationships with students began to take root during her formative years. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Race and Gender Studies at Sonoma State University, and later obtained a Master's degree in Counseling from the University of Southern California. Stacy's extensive experience in counseling, effective communication, and providing unwavering support to adolescents during their triumphs and challenges greatly enriches her role at San Domenico.
Outside of her professional endeavors, Stacy finds joy in working out, knitting, and sharing her life with her partner Michael in Mill Valley and their three grown and flown children.