Spanish version of the award-winning 1,2,3,4 Parents! program, with additional topics of interest to the Spanish-speaking audience. All materials are in Spanish. Filmed in Spanish. Program kit includes: 1 videotape 1 Leader's Guide 1 Parent's Workbook 1 Parent Completion Certificate 2 color Promotional Posters 1 B&W Reproducible Flyer (all in Spanish).

Winner - Parent's Guide to Children's Media Inc. "This video is awesome! Easy to watch, fun, colorful and multicultural, it provides parents of all ages with ideas of what they can do with their children and how to treat their child with respect. Engaging!." - Kim Tweedy, RN, BSN, Perinatal Support Specialist, Drake University Early Head Start Here are the 5 essentials every child needs during the critical early years to lay the foundation for a happy and healthy life. Modeled on-screen by a diverse group of loving parents, viewers learn the specific behaviors and techniques that will allow their child to reach his or her fullest potential. Volume 1: Love and Stability The pivotal component of all healthy development is that the child feels loved. Volume 1 teaches parents the behaviors that let children know they are loved, leading to security, trust and self-esteem. Volume 2: Time Together Teaches parents the importance of daily focused interaction with their child and the specific activities that children find fun and comforting. The result? More involved parents, and a reduced risk of neglect and abuse. Volume 3: Inspire and Challenge Demonstrates to parents how to provide a variety of age-appropriate experiences that gently challenge and stimulate growth, cultivating their children's curiosity and love of learning. Volume 4: Positive Discipline This volume helps parents set rules and limits that are consistent with their child's development, giving them techniques to discipline without shaking, shouting or hitting. Volume 5: Safety and Health Shows the importance of good health care and regular doctor visits, plus how to create safe environments, model safe behavior, and choose high quality daycare. Ages 13 - Adult Released 2003 Closed Captioned

Kids misbehave for lots of reasons. No matter what the reason is, there are four simple steps you can take to stop problem behavior and teach your children better, alternative ways to behave.

This program examines what stands between our children becoming literate adults or school dropouts. It explores the experiences of students on the edge of success or failure in school, shares the feelings of students who fail and those who triumph, visits classrooms around the country where teachers encourage literacy across content areas and promote cognitive development for all their students, and— above all—provides hope that the literacy crisis facing our schools can be solved. (58 minutes, color)

This exciting manual will help mentors work effectively with their partners toward a healthy and fulfilling future. Fact sheets offer fast, easily digested information and can be used individually or as part of the ongoing mentor/partner relationship. Techniques are based on strategies proven successful in helping young people make positive changes in their lives.

This vital program outlines the key elements of emotional intelligence-assets, balance and character- as students discover they have the power to bounce back, balance emotional and academic demands, and make positive choices.

Nineteen-year-old Lynn Kenney is one of a growing number of women abused by their boyfriends. Through Lynn's story viewers will learn what it means to be abused in a relationship. Whether the abuse is physical or verbal, the effects can be serious. Teenagers will also learn some of the warning signs of potential abuse and where they can go for help. This program serves as media support for Health, Guidance, and Life Skills units on dating violence, rape prevention, survival and coping, safety and injury prevention, self esteem, family life, conflict resolution, violence prevention, and resisting peer pressure.

After the grades, test scores, essays, and other credentials of students seeking early admission reach the colleges and universities of their choice, the waiting game begins. In this ABC News program, correspondent Michel Martin goes inside Georgetown University’s admissions process to take an in-depth look at how that august institution makes its rulings on the many hopefuls who apply—ten for each available slot. Representative committee participants, including a member of the admissions staff, a dean, a faculty member, and an undergrad, give their views, as do some high school students hoping to make the cut. (23 minutes, color)

This video presents us with a realistic look at today’s teenage challenges of pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and alcohol/ substance abuse. Insights from recognized authorities in the field of adolescent development, and from teenagers themselves, give the viewer meaningful and constructive suggestions to meet these challenges.

The fastest growing segment of AIDS cases in the United States is heterosexual young people who are sexually active. Listen to candid discussions with teens and adults from all over the country who are HIV positive, and hear their discussions about some who are now tragically dead. Learning Objectives: 1) To educate the student about how AIDS is contracted. 2) To teach the student about the symptoms of the disease. 3) To expose the student to candid testimonials of those infected with the HIV virus. Length: 60 minutes Copyright: ©1992

Educate students about the risks and realities of HIV and AIDS in the African American community. A former convict, public activist, counselor, and married activist each share their moving stories and relate the daily struggles of living with HIV or AIDS. Hear the voices of students and African American and Latino youth activists as they express their views about the growing AIDS epidemic among young people in America. Students will learn about the stark realities of HIV and AIDS and the consequences of risky behavior in this powerful documentary. A Further Learning Web site supplements the program, providing learning objectives, Internet resources approved for content, an online teacher’s guide, and more. ©2004

Truths and falsehoods about AIDS are confronted and revealed in this dramatic look at a horrible disease. Learning Objectives: 1)Students will learn about the physical effects and emotional consequences of AIDS. 2)AIDS prevention will be discussed. 3)Students will be aware that irresponsible behavior can result in the contraction of the AIDS virus. Length: 30 minutes Copyright: ©1991

This documentary features actual young people who have experienced firsthand how devastating alcohol can be to you lives. Your students learn the truth about a boy who died when his drinking went too far. A researcher from the University of Chicago performs experiments that show how alcohol can slow down brain and eye functions. Two medical students from the University of Chicago visit a classroom to show the students an actual human grain and liver that illustrate how alcohol can damage the body. Dr. Elizabeth Roberts, an adolescent psychiatrist and guest expert for the "Oprah Winfrey Show," speaks directly to the camera to reveal how using this drug can cause numerous problems including long-term effects with family, friends, school, work, and futures. Grades 5 to Grade 8, 1999, 25:41 Minutes

Children rely on what they see in life to determine how people treat each other. With the escalation of violence in our society, developing alternative models for teaching kids how to solve problems has become critical. Part One: Students learn the value of problem solving and conflict resolution as alternatives to fighting. Through dramatized sequences, skills such as listening, oral expression, critical thinking, assertiveness, and teamwork are taught. Part Two: Teachers, counselors, administrators, and parents learn methods of employing conflict resolution skills in everyday interactions in school and at home. Basic techniques for establishing peer mediation programs are introduced. Ways to resolve youth-adult conflicts are explored. Grades7 - 12, ©1994 ,10Minutes

Teach students useful techniques to effectively manage anger with this helpful program. Outlining how anger can have a negative impact on our health and adversely affect our relationships with others, the program provides effective strategies to deal with the issues that cause anger. Students will learn that these feelings can be tirggered by internal or external stimuli, the different ways people respond to anger, and how anger can be pragmatically managed. The program clearly conveys that in the long run, the issues that rile a person are more likely to be resolved when everyone restructures their thinking and communicates calmly.

This research-based program provides guidance and a four-session student workshop to educators who want to find a humane, but firm way to teach disruptive students positive coping strategies • Aggression, hostility, and violence in schools has become more threatening because of a number of trends: • Increasing disruptive student behavior • Children exhibiting disruptive and even violent behavior at younger ages than ever before • More of the disruptions are violent in nature • Children and teens are both perpetrators and victims of violence • Many aggressive and violent young people lack any sense of caring or remorse • Students are increasingly described as aggressive and hostile • Each of the four video programs is approximately 20 minutes long • They are: • Key Principles • Creating a Climate of Prevention • Intervention Techniques • Resolution • The companion guide contains an agenda for each of the four half-day, video-based workshop sessions • Each contains: • Suggestions for time allotment • Questions to trigger discussion and debate • Role-play ideas • and Directions for conducting large and small group arrangements • For Educators • © 1997