Project Happiness Archives - Shaping Youth

Media That Uplifts & Inspires: Positive Picks For Youth Outreach

May 11, 2011 by Amy Jussel 16 Comments

Sept. 10, 2016 Update World Suicide Prevention Day is flooding my Twitter account, with poignant posts pointing to the desperate need for mental health resources and outreach, especially among youth … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: adversity, Age-of-Conversation, Amy-Jussel, Asset Based Thinking, bullying, Change the way you see everything, children and adolescent depression, Disney, gender and media portrayals, Get through tough times, GLSEN, Hank Wasiak, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, HGHW, Hollywood Health and Society, humanity, I Can Helpline, Inspire Foundation, intervention, It Gets Better, Josh Shipp, kids depression, Kids health, lead a happier life, liberty, Life, Liz J Meyer, Mental Health Month, mHealth, paths to happiness, PBG, Pixar, positive psychology, Project Happiness, pursuit of happiness, Reach Out Australia, reachout, ReachOut in the USA, SEL, social and emotional education, social change, social media activism, spark change, SPARK! summit, teaching tolerance, Teen's Guide to World Domination, teens depression, The Trevor Project, Toy Story, troubled teens, Woody, youth motivational speakers

Project Happiness: How Are YOU Faring?

February 14, 2010 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Mar. 20, 2015 Update It's evidently #International Day of Happiness on Twitter which ironically takes up most of the 140 characters as a hashtag, so I'm reprising this post to give people some ideas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: abby konopasky, Addiction Institute, Aragon High School, Asset Based Thinking, bouncing back, Brain Science, children, cognitive, coping skills, Denise Clark Pope, disappointment, emotional wellness, Feb 18 2010, happier kids, happy, Harvard study, healthy, Jim Schuyler, Kids, negative people, neuro, nurturing resiliency, parenting, parents, positivity, Project Happiness, PTSO, randy taran, reduce stress, resilience, role modeling, Science, Science of Happiness, Sky DL Foundation, Stephanie Brown, stress management, stress relief, Stressed Out Students, teens, Time magazine, Valentines Day, wellness, What makes Us happy

Standby: Real Life Has Usurped My Digital World

January 26, 2009 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Jan. 26, 2009: I’m feeling very “First lady-ish” right now, since Michelle Obama recently described herself as "first and foremost . . . Malia and Sasha's mom." Likewise, Shaping Youth begins at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: advertising in textbooks, being a mom, Bus Radio, CCFC, Cocaine in a can, commercialism, computer crashes, corporate ad creep, corporate sponsorship, Dalai Lama Foundation, digital life, digital-natives, dogs, EdVoice, energy fiend, energy-drinks, Jamey Kirby, jumpstart your startup, Kids, kids coping skills, Malia and Sasha, mommy blogs, phishing scams, Project Happiness, real life, resilience, schools, senior dogs, Sky at Red7, teens

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