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.
Come for a taco bar, film screening and discussion led by representatives from Shodair’s allied therapy and therapy programs.
Onsite childcare provided by volunteers from the HHS National Honor Society. Register your child here!
Emily Cherkin, MEd., The Screentime Consultant, empowers parents to understand and balance family screentime by inspiring a movement around becoming tech-intentional.
As a mother of two (12 & 15) and former teacher, she is intimately familiar with the daunting challenges facing families in today’s highly digitized world.
As a public speaker she is widely recognized for motivating communities to advocate for tech-intentionality. She’s been invited to speak at several schools across the country, and serves as a guest lecturer at the University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy.
Emily’s book,The Screentime Solution: A Judgment-Free Guide to Becoming a Tech-Intentional Family, was published in January 2024 by Greenleaf Book Group.
John Sommers-Flanagan is a clinical psychologist, professor of counseling at the University of Montana, co-author of ten books, and writer of an untold number of words on his blog athttps://johnsommersflanagan.
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 at Ten Mile Creek Brewery
Wednesday, January 22: Central Elementary School Community discussion of The Anxious Generation, 6:30 PM in Central’s DaVinci Room
Sunday, January 26: The Screentime Solution book discussion at Lewis & Clark Library, 1 PM
Wednesday, January 29th: Hawthorne Elementary School Community discussion of The Anxious Generation, 6-8 at the Library in the Large Community Room
Thursday, January 30th: Kessler Elementary School Community discussion of The Anxious Generation, 6:30pm in the Kessler Library
Monday, February 3rd: Broadwater Elementary School Community discussion of The Screentime Solution, 5;30 pm at the Staggering Ox
Monday, February 3: Central Elementary School Community discussion of The Anxious Generation, 6:30 PM in Central’s DaVinci Room
Sunday, February 9: The Screentime Solution book discussion at Lewis & Clark Library, 1 PM
Tuesday, March 18th: Smith Elementary School Community discussion of The Anxious Generation, 6:30-7:30 at the Smith library.