The South Brunswick High School Bridge Center and the South Brunswick Parent Academy have partnered to offer a workshop to parents of high school seniors entitled, Just 4 Seniors Parent Workshop: Helping Your Child (and Yourself!) Transition to Life After High School on Tuesday, November 15th, from 7-8:30 p.m. in the South Brunswick High School library.
This enlightening and informative workshop is designed to help parents understand the transitions that their sons or daughters are going through in preparation for their lives after high school and how to best to support them during those transitions. The workshop will identify the potential challenges and opportunities facing their children, in order to not only help embrace those changes, but create a foundation for support, for both their children and themselves. Interested parties can register by emailing their name and email address to SBPA@sbparents.org.
The workshop is being presented by Dr. Isaiah B. Pickens and Mr. George Scott. Dr. Pickens, a psychology intern with the BRIDGE Center in 2010-11, received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Fordham University earlier this year. He has written a book, The Dawn of Generation Why, which explores how timeless issues, such as developing a secure personal identity, reaching one's dreams, and connecting with others, are understood in today's ever-changing world. Mr. Scott, former Director of Student Services for the South Brunswick School District, is a family therapist, with a professional practice, exclusively in the field of mental health, with a specialty in schools and school-related services.
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This workshop is being offered to parents as part of the Just 4 Seniors program, a series of ten weekly, lunchtime meetings being offered to all South Brunswick High School seniors to help them deal with the challenges and issues facing them as they transition to life after high school. Led by Dr. Pickens, students discuss issues such as goal-setting, stress, time management, changing relationships with family and friends, etc., with their peers, while enjoying pizza provided by the BRIDGE program. The program began on Oct. 11th and will be offered weekly until Dec. 20th during all three lunches at the high school. Students can attend any or all of the workshops in the series.
The South Brunswick Parent Academy is a collaboration of the South Brunswick School District and Every Person Influences Children (EPIC). EPIC is a non-profit organization whose programming is funded in South Brunswick by the South Brunswick Board of Education and a grant from the South Brunswick Municipal Alliance, as part of the NJ Governor’s Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. The BRIDGE Center is a dynamic partnership between South Brunswick School District and the University Behavioral Healthcare (UBHC), a division of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). The primary objective of the program is to help assure that pre-teens and teenagers will have readily-available access to quality counseling and other support services.
