This curriculum is designed primarily for parents of adolescents and adults who work with adolescents. Sessions are flexible enough, however, to include adolescents as participants.  This curriculum is based on an earlier version of Florida’s unpublished curriculum, “Teening-Up” with your Adolescent: Ages 10 – 16 (1997).

Each session can be taught as a stand-alone workshop. Information and concepts overlap across sessions and, in such cases, will cross-reference other relevant sections and related resources.

Although we support the idea that all youth are "at-risk," the curriculum was not created for situations in which parents and adolescents are in clear danger. The emphasis is more on prevention than intervention. If you sense there are more serious problems teens and parents are facing, please refer them to professional counselors, individual and family therapists, or other mental health providers.