by Berks Teens Matter | May 7, 2022 | Blog, Parents
By Heather Ulrich, Project Director of Berks Teens When I think about some of the more cringe-worthy conversations about sexual and reproductive health, I’m always drawn back to the insufferable Coach Carr from Mean Girls. “If you do touch each other, you will get...
by Berks Teens Matter | Apr 3, 2022 | Blog, Parents
Teen POV: How to Talk to Your Adolescent About Sexting By Brooke Tucker, Virtual Youth Ambassador for Berks Teens These last two years have been hard on everyone, but especially teens. Isolation created mental health issues in many teens who hadn’t previously...
by Nadine Smet-Weiss | May 26, 2020 | Blog, Community Speaks, In The News, Parents, Teens
By Nadine Smet-Weiss Starting the Conversations. . . Take a deep breath. Let it out. Take another deep breath. Starting the conversations is a little like that, one breath at a time. You can do this, I know you can. And you can’t really mess it up. What’s that I hear?...
by Nadine Smet-Weiss | Jan 1, 2020 | Blog, In The News, Uncategorized
An Alternative Plan? By Nadine J. Smet-Weiss, translated by Ana Villaman Palo Magazine January 2020 Local author, David Nazario, speaks a lot of truth. One of my favorite truths in his widely popular book, Make Love Your Religion is, “I often wonder why society tries...
by Bethany Bower | Oct 21, 2019 | Blog, In The News, Uncategorized
“Hey, Bethany? So why DO you do this work?” This is a question I get a lot when I’m in the community representing the Berks Teens Matter team. I do this work for a lot of different reasons, but it begins with a passion I have for engaging with and working with youth....
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