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Teens smiling while building teen resilience.

Building Teen Resilience: How to Bounce Back from Setbacks

Life as a teenager is often filled with hurdles, challenges, and setbacks. Learning to bounce back from these difficult circumstances is essential to living a healthy and fulfilling life, and building teen resilience is the path to taking your challenges in stride. Resilience training for teens can teach you how

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The Importance of Open Communication with Parents

Life as a teenager isn’t always easy. Between the pressure of schoolwork, obligations at home, navigating social challenges, and developing your sense of identity in the world, stress during adolescence can quickly feel like it’s too much to bear. Keeping open communication with parents is one of the best tools

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ASAM Summary and Analysis

Missing Opportunities in Screening and Treating Alcohol Disorder Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) remains a critical public health challenge, yet significant gaps persist in screening, advising, and treating individuals who meet the criteria for AUD. A recent analysis of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) data from 2015

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Teen smiling learning the power of saying no.

Building Strong Communication Skills: Saying No When It Matters

Mastering effective communication skills can help you resist peer pressure, make healthier decisions, and build your emotional intelligence. But learning to communicate effectively and say no is about more than just avoiding potential dangers and can help you in nearly every aspect of your life. Saying no when it matters

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Teen smiling and developing coping mechanisms for stress and anxiety.

Developing Healthy Coping Mechanisms for Stress and Anxiety

Learning coping mechanisms for stress and anxiety is an important strategy for managing your mental health. This is particularly true for adolescents, who experience higher rates of anxiety than their adult counterparts and often don’t have the lived experience of how to overcome stressful situations. Project Eden offers counseling for

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Supporting Your Teen on the Road to Recovery

As a parent, you can be the strongest supporter of your teen’s path to substance use recovery. Recovering from a substance use disorder isn’t always easy, but by creating a healthy and supportive environment for your teen to flourish in, you can help them turn a new leaf and create

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Teen writing in notebook outside learning about teen substance misuse.

Understanding Addiction: The Science Behind Teen Substance Misuse

Teen substance misuse is both highly common and disproportionately dangerous. While teenage years are marked by experimentation and even risk-taking, adolescent drug use can lead to devastating consequences that simply aren’t worth the risk. Feeling overwhelmed? Talk it out with someone who gets it. Text 510-256-9420 and we’ll get back

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Girl with headphones. Is my teenager using?

Is My Teenager Using? A Guide for Concerned Parents

Teen drug use should always be a cause of concern for parents. But detecting drug and alcohol use isn’t always easy, and if your teen has started using drugs, they may go to extensive lengths to hide their substance use behavior. Looking out for the warning signs of teen drug

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Two teens giving a high five: How to talk to your teen about drug use.

How to Talk to Your Teen About Drug Use

Every parent wants their children to make better decisions for their mental and physical health, but learning how to talk to your teen about drug use can be extremely difficult. Having a productive conversation about substance use with your teenager can help keep them on the right path and avoid

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Teen on skateboard aware of the warning signs of substance use.

Warning Signs of Substance Use in Teens and Young Adults

Substance misuse in young adults and teenagers can quickly lead to an escalating set of behavioral and mental health problems. Learning warning signs of substance use in teens, especially to prevent addiction and substance use disorder signs early, can save your adolescent from progressing on a path that leads nowhere.

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