Making Reaching Teens Accessible

Reaching Teens is a comprehensive work that teaches strength-based communication strategies that apply positive youth development principles, resilience-building strategies and trauma- sensitive practices. It can be
navigated individually, within a practice, program, or setting, or as a coalition of community-based settings.
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The second edition allows for community-wide partnerships in the transformation to strength-based practices because it is written for all youth-serving professionals (e.g., those who work in after school programs), but has tailored experiences for professionals working in the following settings:

• Education
• Health Care
• Juvenile Justice
• Legal System
• Foster Care
• Substance Use
• Sports and Physical Recreation
• Systems that care for youth enduring homelessness or human trafficking

Reaching Teens is turn-key ready for virtual individual or group learning.

It includes 95 chapters, over 400 films, live links to resources, and downloads for youth, parents and professionals. It also offers up to 95 hours of continuing professional education credits for health professionals, social workers, and counselors. Other professions as well as agencies have used it to generate their own CEU structures. 

The electronic version is AI enabled allowing users to ask any question about strength-based communication and get an answer consistent with Reaching Teens values and expertise.  It also has live links to view films, access suggested websites, and download the handouts. Reaching teens is live referenced allowing users to explore original sources seamlessly. 

Critically, the electronic version offers several strategies to navigate the comprehensive body of work. It easily points the user to relevant content regardless of the order in which it is presented in the book format.

Believing this work can make a real difference in the lives of adolescents, The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has chosen to make this accessible to all youth serving professionals and programs. A body of work of this nature required significant resources to create and would therefore be expected to have a price that might put it out of reach for individuals as well as youth-serving programs that are increasingly required to do more with less. Therefore, the AAP is charging an amount for this body of work that is not much more than one would pay for a traditional textbook. That price allows an individual to have the written and electronic textbook. 

A setting can choose to obtain the entire product for each individual or can license the work for the entire setting. With an “institutional license,” everyone in the organization will have full access to the product electronically and will be able to earn continuing education credits. Institutional licenses are cost-effective and are given at rates far less than if the work was individually purchased.