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Reaching the emerging adult

Reaching the emerging adult. agenda. Five features of emerging adulthood Parent Tips 19-25 year olds Reaching College bound youth Reaching non-college Youth. Five features emerging adulthood 18-29 Years old. Identity exploration Instability Self-focus Feeling in-between

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Reaching the emerging adult

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  1. Reaching the emerging adult

  2. agenda • Five features of emerging adulthood • Parent Tips 19-25 year olds • Reaching College bound youth • Reaching non-college Youth

  3. Five features emerging adulthood18-29 Years old • Identity exploration • Instability • Self-focus • Feeling in-between • Sense of possibilities

  4. Identity exploration • Trying to find out “who I am” • Trying to find a place in the world in love and work • Love: searching for a “soul mate”

  5. instability • Increases changes (relationship, path, moving around) • Part of the change process (Example)

  6. Self-focused • More self sufficient before commitment

  7. Feeling In between

  8. Sense of possibilities • “I am very sure that someday I will get to where I want to be in life.”

  9. Parent Tips

  10. Why? • Prevalence • Consequences

  11. How can Prevention Help? • Environmental Management • pRe-enrollment Messages

  12. What works: College Model programs • College AIM • Social norming

  13. http://www.olin.msu.edu/healthed/atod/duckcampaign.htm

  14. Reaching non-college youth • Challenges and opportunities • Lessons from the field

  15. Group activity • Talk with your table and come up with a list • Who are the conatcts • How can you work with them

  16. References and links • Arnett, J. J., & Fishel, E. (2013). When Will My Grown-UP Kid Grow Up? Loving and Understanding Your Emerging Adult. New York, NY: Workman. • http://www.drugfree.org/the-parent-toolkit/age-by-age-advice/19-25-year-old-tips/ • https://safesupportivelearning.ed.gov/sites/default/files/hec/product/first-year.pdf • http://www.samhsa.gov/capt/sites/default/files/resources/reaching-noncollege-young-adults.pdf • http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/CollegeAIM/Default.aspx

  17. References and links • http://www.drugfree.org/the-parent-toolkit/age-by-age-advice/19-25-year-old-tips/ • http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/Default.aspx • http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/CollegeAIM/Resources/NIAAA_College_Matrix_Booklet.pdf • http://hecaod.osu.edu/campus-professionals/prevention/marijuana/ • http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/business/fewer-us-high-school-graduates-opt-for-college.html?_r=0

  18. References and Links • http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/08/increase-in-living-with-parents-driven-by-those-ages-25-34-non-college-grads/ • https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/college-age-young-adults

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