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For more information about Let's Talk Santa Fe workshops for parents, becoming a Let's Talk workshop trainer, or learning how to bring Let's Talk to the workplace or community, please contact the Let's Talk Coordinator at talk@letstalksantafe.org.
You can also send us a comment using the form at the bottom of this page.
About Let's Talk
Everyone—from parents and public health workers to Fortune 500 CEOs and the US President—wants our nation's children to be safe, healthy and successful in school.
The obstacles to student's success are clear. Substance abuse, violence and injury are the leading causes of youth mortality, disability, hospitalization, and emotional trauma. Young people face daily challenges in the form of bullying, interpersonal violence, drug overdose, and alcohol-related injury.
Let's Talk's mission is to support families, educators, healthcare providers and lawmakers as they work together to create safe and resilient environments in every home, school and community.
Let's Talk provides communities with the tools to achieve two important goals:
- Community education that strengthens parent-child communication, and gives every family member the skills to discuss problems related to youth safety and health-and find solutions.
- Community mobilizing around youth-focused and evidence-based strategies to prevent youth violence, substance abuse and injury.
About Community Education and the Let's Talk Activities
The Let's Talk activities have been used successfully as part of community education strategies since 1994. Let's Talk activities provide a way for parents and guardians to assess their own children's knowledge, attitudes and behaviors—focusing on young people's experience with bullying, violence, substance abuse and injury. The family-tested activities were the centerpiece of a number of youth development initiatives including: the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Plain Talk for Parents workshop series used in Seattle, San Diego, Atlanta, and New Orleans; the CDC-funded and National Education Association sponsored Can We Talk? and ¿Conversamos? parent workshop series promoted in more than 100 cities around the country. In 2000, the Let's Talk activities were published in the Ten Talks Parents Must Have With Their Children book series that found a national audience when Oprah built an entire show around Ten Talks books, catapulting Ten Talks to the New York Times best-selling list.
About Community Mobilizing Around Youth Safety Promotion
Let's Talk uses a web-based learning management system to create a virtual family and community resource center which serves as the centerpiece for community mobilizing around youth safety, health and success in school. Let's Talk provides:
- tools to deliver workshops for parents in the workplace and community
- family-tested activities shown to increase parent-child communication
- web-based lessons for parents and children
- a community college-level, web-based course for workshop trainers
- surveys to assess student's understanding of safety issues
- a google maps directory to community resources
- links to data and research on youth safety and health promotion
- comments sections to encourage dialogue and sharing among residents
- a community calendar to spotlight all community events for families
- links to local agencies providing support to families
- resources to partner with school staff and healthcare providers
Let's Talk also supports local Let's Talk coordinators and community members in identifying and working toward shared evidence-based safety strategies, whose effectiveness can be evaluated.
Let's Talk Helps You Achieve Your Goals
If you are school administrator or educator
Let's Talk supports your school safety priorities and outreach to parents.
If you are a state or local education or health agency
Let's Talk supports your health, education and policy objectives, promoting evidence-based strategies.
If you are a faith-based organization
Let's Talk help you provide your members with the knowledge and skills to keep the community's youth safe.
If you are a concerned paren t or community member
Let's Talk provides you with all the resources you need to community mobilize around youth safety.
If you are a student
Let's Talk helps you work with other students and school staff to address bullying, harassment and violence in the community
If you are working with a foundation or other philanthropic agency whose mission is strengthening the safety, health and resilience of our youth
Let's Talk provides a model for local organizations to implement evidence-based youth safety strategies.
