Sexting and Texting
Cell phones are now pervasive in teen culture and the use of cell phones to send sexually suggestive text messages and images, and texting while driving is common among teens.
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Teens, Grief and Death
Grief is a normal response when someone close dies, unfortunately for teens it is an emotion that may be new and difficult to handle, and even more difficult to find support for.
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Splitting Up
More children are being raised by single parents, grandparents, relatives, and living in foster homes than ever before.
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Money Smart Teens
In the midst of a global financial crisis, the importance of personal financial literacy is higher than ever.
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Military Kids
In the past few years, Wisconsin has seen some of the largest military troop deployments in the state's history.
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Teens and Homelessness
During the past five years, the number of homeless students in Wisconsin has risen nearly 75 percent.
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Teens and STDs
The alarming trend of sexually transmitted diseases among teens is explored in this program.
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Teens and the Political Process
The upcoming election is the focus of this Teen Connection program.
Teens and Teen Courts
Communities around the state are establishing Teen Court programs to use positive peer pressure to reduce teenage crimes.
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Teens and Internet Social Networking
Recent studies have shown that more than half of all teens use one of the many online social networking sites.
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Binge Drinking
Recent studies have quantified Wisconsins teenage binge drinking levels, ranking the state highest in the nation for drinking among high school students.
Juvenile Diabetes
Life expectancy for patients with the disease is often 15 years shorter than others. For patients, complications including blindness, heart disease, strokes and kidney failure are ever-present possibilities.
Teens Following
Their Dreams
A collection of young people who are working hard to pursue their dreams
and goals will be featured to discuss their aspirations.
Teens and Poetry:
The Spoken Word Revolution/Movement
The Wisconsin teens that write and perform hip-hop poetry find the form
an outlet for themselves and a means to reach to kids in age groups
younger and older than they are.
Teens and Suicide
Difficult as it is to imagine that a teen, with a lifetime of possibilities
ahead of them, sometimes freely chooses to end that life through suicide
Cyberbullying and
Internet Safety
The first Teen Connection of the 2006-2007 school year features guest
panelists who will demonstrate online how quickly predators show up
in chat rooms.
Women and Prison
What are the issues that surround women in prison? The next edition
of Teen Connection goes behind the walls of Taycheedah
Correctional Institution in Fond du Lac to get those perspectives.
Teens and Cancer
If a young person gets cancer, can their energy and humor play a role
in the battle against the disease?
School Attendance
Operating on the principle that to learn, kids need to be in school,
school districts, and community- and faith-based groups across the state
are taking steps to ensure improved school attendance by Wisconsin youth.
Teens and Prescription
Drugs
Whatever the drug and the ultimate use of it - recreational or as a
misguided study aid -- Teen Connection panel members
will stress the means to prevent prescription drug abuse by teens, and
ways to identify and address it if it is occurring.
Teens and Ethics
Adults and students work together to discuss ethical conundrums and
balancing personal loyalty with the need to question others’ choices
as they affect an entire community.
Gays, Lesbians,
Bisexuals, Transgender Teens
What kind of climate exists in the hallways, cafeterias and classrooms
of Wisconsin's schools? If you're a gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgendered
(GLBT) teen, it may be a hostile one.
Teens and AIDS
It's often noted that teens, in their stages of life straddling youth
and adulthood, possess a sense of immortality. Smoking rates, excessive
alcohol consumption, drug use and dangerous driving can, in part, stem
from a teen's feeling that they transcend risk. So, too, can be the
case with unprotected sex and intravenous drug use - the factors contributing
to acquiring the HIV virus and AIDS.
Welcome to My House
Prison isn't the desired destination for a teen full of promise and
a lifetime of potential ahead, but for some offenders, it's reality.
Teen Connection looks at the issues surrounding teens
in prison.
Teens and Bullying
Bullying crosses all socio-economic lines and occurs most frequently
in middle school and junior high. It’s characterized by repetition
of aggressive behavior, words or ostracizing over time, and is marked
by an imbalance of power.
Teens and Obesity
A panel of teens from East High School in Appleton will share their
experiences coming from a school district that last year removed all
vending machines from its cafeterias as part of an overall health-inducing
effort.
Teens and Depression
Biological depression affects 2 percent of teens across the country.
In severe cases, it leads to teen suicide. Suicide is the eighth leading
cause of death in the U.S.
Harassment of Teens
With Disabilities
Tormenting, mimicking and gesturing toward the disabled is jaringly
cruel. And, for those Wisconsin pupils who are disabled and may be targets,
these actions are painfully familiar.
Teens and Foster
Care
Currently in the United States, it is estimated that close to 600,000
kids are in the foster care system; almost 2 times the number there
were 19 years ago.
Teens and Sexual
Abuse
The latest figures on reported and substantiated annual child sexual
assault cases in Wisconsin is 4,949.
Teens and Inhalants
Nationally, more than a million people used inhalants to get high just
last year. By the time students reach 8th grade, one in five will have
used inhalants.
Teens and Bipolar
Disorder
Bipolar disorder, which was formerly called manic depressive
illness, is a disorder of the brain marked by extreme changes in mood,
energy level and behavior that can lead to frequent sadness, impaired
judgment, feelings of euphoria, impulsivity, irritability and agitation.
Teens and Gambling
With the opening of more casinos, the expansion of state lotteries,
the increased betting on sports and a wide variety of gambling opportunities
available on the Internet, it is not surprising to see an increase in
the number of teenage gamblers.
Teens Talk About
Hate and Violence
This Teen Connection includes excerpts from an interview
WPT did with Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard,
a young man who was brutally tortured and murdered because he was gay.
The program also includes a roundtable discussion with teens that have
experienced prejudice and hate.
Teens Talk About
Hazing
As teens get involved in athletics or other extra curricular
activities at high school, how many are subjected to hazing in order
to be considered "one of the group?"
Teens Talk About
Raves and Ecstasy
Rave dance parties and the dangers of the drug Ecstasy
Teens Talk About
Self-Injury
Self-injurers commonly report they feel empty inside, over or under
stimulated, unable to express their feelings, lonely, not understood
by others and fearful of intimate relationships and adult responsibilities.
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Teens and AIDS
Four of the guests on this Teen Connection program
are from the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin.
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Indians are People
not Mascots
Some people would argue that names such as Braves and Warriors are not
derogatory toward Native Americans, but honor their past heritage. However,
does it really honor them or perpetuate a stereotype?
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Teens and Gambling
Gambling is becoming more and more prominent in our society. With the
opening of more casinos. the expansion of state lotteries, the increased
betting on sports and a wide variety of gambling opportunities available
on the internet, it is not surprising to see an increase in the number
of teenage gamblers.
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Middle School
Girls Speak out
For too many girls, however, the transformational state of puberty is
too difficult to survive intact. Some are over-powered by the various
negative forces bombarding them.
Teen Pregnancy,
Teen Parents
There are many decisions that teens make that affect the rest of their
lives. One of the most long-lasting is becoming sexually active, getting
pregnant, and raising a child.
