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1	Wilmette Youth Connection Youth Connection's mission is to offer social, service and learning opportunities to Wilmette area 5th - 8th graders. We provide experiences that encourage kids to participate, grow and have fun in a safe, inclusive environment. Youth Connection runs a variety of after-school programs, including RAD at Highcrest, The DEN and Homework Clubs at WJHS, etc.
2	Family Awareness Network (FAN) FAN is a volunteer organization run by parents, for parents. We help parents build confidence in their unique parenting style and help them make connections with their children, other parents, the schools and the community. We do this by sponsoring an array of useful educational programs and workshops, nurturing the development of small, supportive parent networks and serving as a helpful resource on specific parenting issues.
3	Resources for Parents Following Tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary
4	Facebook for Parents Parents today must know about Facebook. At this site, parents can enroll in a free course at Stanford to learn more about Facebook. Parents can also sign up for a free newsletter about Facebook, created especially for parents with kids under 18 using the service.
5	Family.com This is a parent resource page from Disney. It is well-organized and packed with ideas, articles, recipes, resources for parents of infants to teenagers. It includes places to visit, computing information and sounding boards for parent dialogue.
6	EduPlace: Parent Math Handbook EduPlace is an educational publishers website that has many helpful suggestions for teachers, but this one is great for parents who want quick, fun, and beneficial math activities that can be done at home.
7	Parent.net An attractive page that has many choices for parents: homework, movie reviews (very thorough and objective), health news, book reviews, other parent web sites, tip of the week, latest news for parents. Each has an archive to past pages. This page is maintained weekly by a psychologist and is sponsored by SOLA, an optical lense company.
8	PBS Online
9	School Report Card
10	Connect Safely ConnectSafely is for parents, teens, educators, advocates - everyone engaged in and interested in the impact of the social Web. The user-driven, all-media, multi-platform, fixed and mobile social Web is a big part of young people's lives, and this is the central space – linked to from social networks across the Web - for learning about safe, civil use of Web 2.0 together. Our forum is also designed to give teens and parents a voice in the public discussion about youth online safety begun back in the '90s. ConnectSafely also has all kinds of social-media safety tips for teens and parents, the latest youth-tech news, and many other resources. The forum is co-directed by Larry Magid of SafeKids.com and Anne Collier of NetFamilyNews.org
11	Safe Kids SafeKids.com is one of the oldest and most enduring sites for Internet safety. It’s creator, Larry Magid, is the author of the original 1994 brochure, “Child Safety on the Information Highway” and is also a technology journalist.
12	Net Family News As a public service for parents, educators, and everyone interested in young people's use of technology, NetFamilyNews is the "community newspaper" of a vital interest community. Founded in 1999, it has become the journal-of-record on all aspects of youth and technology, serving readers in more than 50 countries. NetFamilyNews is based on the premise that informed, engaged parenting is essential to kids' constructive use of technology. With the advent of Web 2.0, or the social Web, that has never been more true. We all have arrived at the everywhere, all-the-time, multimedia, multidevice, downloadable and uploadable, user-driven Internet. On this Internet, the best protections our highly mobile Net users have is the filtering software in their heads and their informed, engaged parents. That's why I started NetFamilyNews, with several editions for busy readers: an email newsletter and daily blog and newsfeed.
13	Tween and teen health By Mayo Clinic staff Fitness and nutrition are the cornerstones of tween and teen health. The habits your child develops to promote tween and teen health may last a lifetime. If your child is physically active, encourage him or her to keep it up. If your child isn't interested in organized sports, suggest other alternatives. You can also promote tween and teen health by encouraging your child to eat healthy foods. Offer various healthy foods at home, talk about portion control, and encourage your child to make good choices when he or she eats with friends. After all, what happens away from home has a direct impact on tween and teen health.