Tobacco and Vaping Trends is the next A Healthy Lynnfield Healthy Conversations, Healthy Kids workshop.
The workshop, led by Ashley Hall, program manager at Northeast Tobacco-Free Community Partnership, will help participants learn the latest trends on tobacco use and vaping products. It will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 8 via Zoom starting at 6:30 p.m.
Adults need to know that it is never too early to educate themselves on the many social influences their children may be exposed to, such as tobacco and vaping.
Participants will learn the following:
- What exactly is vaping?
- What tactics did the tobacco and vaping industries use to make a new generation hooked on nicotine?
- How can adults protect youth from the dangers of tobacco and vaping?
- What is the “Act Modernizing Tobacco” and why was it signed into law?
- What free resources are available in Massachusetts to educate the community and help those who want to quit?
Registration for this program and other virtual programs is required. Zoom links will be posted on the “Events” page of the AHL website, https://ahealthylynnfield.org/.
The workshop is part of AHL’s Parent Advisory Group’s Healthy Conversations, Healthy Kids series, an adolescent health series to help empower families and people who work with youth to recognize, respond and to promote early intervention before certain youth health behaviors become problematic.
Workshops are facilitated by experts in their respective fields and focus on the importance of communication with preteens and teens. Workshops vary; some are in-person and some are virtual.
For information about the series, go to A Healthy Lynnfield’s website at https://ahealthylynnfield.org/ and click on events.
Other upcoming Healthy Conversations, Healthy Kids sessions include Helping Kids Adjust: Screens, Social Skills and Avoiding Social Problems, which will be held virtually on Feb. 15, and an in-person night with dynamic and energetic mental performance coach Vera Jo Bustos on March 7 at the Lynnfield Middle School.
Starting at 6:30 p.m., Helping Kids Adjust will examine how kids are doing emotionally and socially in light of the pandemic and increased screen use.
Practical approaches to family life that help children develop emotional resilience, healthy social skills and friendships along with sensible screen use and social media habits will be discussed.
Other topics include how to move forward to a healthier “new normal” and how to help parents be most productive in guiding their children toward a full social and emotional recovery.
Registration for this program is not required.
Bustos will share her key ways to help kids increase confidence and create a better understanding of how to break the barriers of confidence killers.
She will address several topics including negative thoughts, assumption and doubts, imposter syndrome, limiting beliefs and self-perceived weaknesses.
Sure to be a powerful presentation, parents and caregivers will walk away with a newly-found confidence and a blueprint of what it takes to bring out the best versions of themselves.
Bustos will also be speaking at the Lynnfield High School or middle school earlier that day, so parents are encouraged to attend the evening session if they want to learn what their kids are learning.
