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What Does a 13-Year Old Boy Know About DATING Violence?

May 9, 2010 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

Feb. 2013 update: First and foremost, yesterday's US Senate/VAWA vote overwhelmingly passed reauthorization and now moves on to the House of Representatives. What IS the Violence Against Women … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: 2010, A Thin Line, abuse, AllyKatzz, APA, Bom411, Boy to man, boys to men, boyz to men, break the cycle, Buffed-Boys, coercion, controlling behavior, dating violence, DV, Elin Stebbins Waldal, Elin Waldal, emotional abuse, enlightenment, Gandhi, healthy dating, Jackson Katz, Jess Weiner, Kodiak Waldal, LiveStrong, Love is respect, misogyny, Mothers Day, NCADV, non-violence, Packaging-Boyhood, peace, perfect gift for a man, reach and teach, recovery, reinventing manhood, relationships, Respect Rx, teen dating violence, teen power, teens, The Good Men Project, The Pixel Project, Tornado Warning, turning boys into monsters, verbal abuse, violence, violence against women, what about the boys, Women2Follow

Virtual Reality Meets Health2.0 For Kids Wellness & Therapy

October 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Oct. 9, 2009 Once upon a time in my former life as a creative director and copywriter, I was asked to create a compelling headline for a learning simulation where young Stanford law students could … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Belinda Lange, children, creative technologies, disorders, education, Exposure therapy, Gaming For Health, healing, health, Health 2.0, intervention, Isis, Kids, learning, mental health, mobile, pain distraction, post traumatic stress, psychoanalysis, psychology, PTSD, rape crisis, recovery, rehabilitation, scent machines, sex ed, SexInfo, SexTech, simulations, STD-prevention, stress, teens, therapeutic benefit, therapy, train the trainer, training sims, trauma, USC, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, video games, violence, Virtual Afghanistan, Virtual Iraq, virtual patients, Virtual Reality, Virtual-Worlds, VRT, war, youth, youth relevant, YPulse

In Bed With Branding: Virtual Worlds Pair With Children’s Hospitals

May 3, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

May 3, 2009 What's with all the children's hospitals partnering and news-making so much as of late? This spring, “Operation Teen Book Drop” gave bed bound kids across the country over 8000 titles … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: ad-creep, brand influence, cancer care, climate change, commercialism, consumption, Dell Children's Medical Center, Digital ethics, Dizzywood, doing good, Elf-Island, gaming for good, gifting, GoodQuests, GuysLitWire, healing, hospitals, illness, institutions, Kirsten Arpajian, Liz Kronenberger, Mirrored Gaming, Nationwide Children's Hospital, NCH, new media, operation teen book drop, patients, PBI, planting real trees, positive screen time, Presto, pro-social, Quests for Change, readergirlz, real hope in a virtual world, recovery, sick kids, strategic partnership, therapeutic benefit, transplants, Virtual-Worlds, WildAid, YALSA

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