Podcasts and Multimedia: Well-being
Dr. Carl Lejuez of the University of Maryland has spent years researching why and when people take risks. He talks with NCFY about the balloon-popping video game he uses to study risk taking, and about the implications of his findings for traumatized youth.
Time: 11:33 | Size: 10.5 MB | Transcript
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Dr. Sandra Bloom is one of the creators of the Sanctuary Model, an evidence-based practice that helps youth-serving programs address trauma experienced by their clients and their staff. Dr. Bloom spoke with NCFY about her program's origins and the importance of trauma-informed practice.
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Jordan Ryan and Alon Coleman both participate in Youth Farm and Market Project in Minneapolis, MN. They spoke with NCFY about Youth Farm's approach to youth empowerment, and how it helps youth become leaders, step-by-step.
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Bryan Samuels, commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, and Andrew Barnett, executive director of the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League, talk to NCFY about the need to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth in teen pregnancy prevention efforts.
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Sandy Skelaney is a Miami street outreach worker who specializes in helping victims of sex trafficking. She talks to NCFY about how to approach sexually exploited youth and how to begin to help them.
Time: 5:22 | Size: 4.9 MB | Transcript
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Jaquil and Jalisa are two youth leaders for Start Strong Boston who teach middle schoolers to analyze the lyrics in pop songs and think about relationship health.
Time: 4:02 | Size: 3.7 MB | Transcript
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Maggie, Garney and Zach all used to be homeless, but they've now all found their own unique ways to stay healthy and happy. In this roundtable discussion, they define and explain well-being, one of the Family and Youth Services Bureau's four outcomes for runaway and homeless youth.
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Karl Kallgren, director of the Union City Sustained Youth Development Project, talks to NCFY about the highly personalized youth program that has helped teen pregnancy rates drop by 20 percent in this rural Pennsylvania community.
Time: 4:00 | Size: 3.7 MB | Transcript
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Rachel Lloyd, founder and CEO of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, or GEMS, in New York, explains why runaway and homeless youth providers are so well-suited to combating sexual trafficking.
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Meet Maggie, a 19-year-old traveling the country in her van. Refusing the label "homeless," Maggie tells her story and describes her current life. And then street outreach worker Jai Somers explains how programs can support young people in Maggie's situation.
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Three young men discuss how their past experiences as runaway and foster youth inform their current work with the programs that helped them.
Time: 4:41 | Size: 4.3 MB | Transcript
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An expert on teen pregnancy prevention for over 40 years, Dr. Michael A. Carrera talks about the specific challenges and rewards of getting youth to care about their futures.
Time: 5:09 | Size: 4.7 MB | Transcript
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A member of two prominent youth advocacy boards explains how leadership opportunities can help young people overcome experiences with bullying.
Time: 3:25 | Size: 3.2 MB | Transcript
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Terry Cross, executive director of the National Indian Child Welfare Association, explains his innovative work with the "Relational Worldview" of youth care. For more information, go to NICWA's Relational Worldview introductory page.
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A young woman talks about how she became a victim of sex trafficking at age 17, how she was able to exit "the life," and the people who aided her recovery.
Time: 8:49 | Size: 5.8 MB | Transcript
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Two team members from Jacksonville’s Project S.O.S. program describe how their original play, "Live Like it Counts," has helped convey the benefits of healthy youth lifestyles and sexual abstinence to a larger audience.
Time: 8:21 | Size: 7.6 MB | Transcript
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A NCFY staff member talks to a young woman who says abstinence is more than a decision not to have sex. It's a way of valuing herself.
Time: 07:18 | Size: 4.1 MB | Transcript
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