This event will be presented virtually. Use the link below to log in from your computer, phone, or tablet for this engaging event. Participants’ cameras and microphones will be disabled during the speaker’s presentation and slideshow. Questions may be submitted ahead of time to Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator, at [email protected].
Use this link to log in to this webinar from your computer, tablet or phone: https://glenbard.zoom.us/j/81735121517
Take 5: Parent Preview of this event with Jessica Lahey on The Addiction Inoculation
Jessica Lahey’s THE ADDICTION INOCULATION, draws on the her personal experience and professional background teaching teens in rehab, and incorporating the latest scientific research to offer an accessible, evidence-based prevention program for raising addiction-resistant kids.
Jessica Lahey is a teacher, writer, and mom. Over twenty years, she’s taught every grade from sixth to twelfth in both public and private schools. She writes about education, parenting, and child welfare for The Atlantic, Vermont Public Radio, The Washington Post and the New York Times and is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed. She is a member of the Amazon Studios Thought Leader Board and wrote the educational curriculum for Amazon Kids’ The Stinky and Dirty Show. Jessica earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts and a J.D. with a concentration in juvenile and education law from the University of North Carolina School of Law. She lives in Vermont with her husband and two sons. Her second book, The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence, will be released in April 2021
Thanks go to Northwestern Medicine for their support of this special event.
