Face2Face: Smart Conversations about Kids and Screens

The Helena Education Foundation will host Face2Face: Smart Conversations about Kids and Screens, a series of events designed to engage the community in dialogue about phones, academics, mental health, safety, and childhood. Events will run from January 21, 2025 to February 13, 2025.

Tuesday, February 4, 7:00 pm at Grandstreet Theatre: Face2Face Keynote Speaker Emily Cherkin, author of The Screentime Solution.

Community Reading Groups

As part of this series, HEF is organizing book groups around the community so that parents, educators, and adults who care about kids can connect by reading and discussing Jonathan Haidt’s bestseller, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness and/or our keynote speaker Emily Cherkin’s book The Screentime Solution. Join a book group near you!

Sunday, January 12: The Anxious Generation book discussion at Lewis & Clark Library, 1 PM

Thursday, January 16: Jefferson Elementary School Community discussion of The Anxious Generation, 6:30 PM

Sunday, January 26: The Screentime Solution book discussion at Lewis & Clark Library, 1 PM

Sunday, February 9: The Screentime Solution book discussion at Lewis & Clark Library, 1 PM