SCREEN TIME AND MENTAL HEALTH
Too much screen time can hurt your child’s mental health. It’s not unusual to see little kids with smartphones or tablets. If you went to the grocery store right now, you might see a toddler sitting in a shopping cart, scrolling through an iPhone while a parent is busy shopping. It’s the new normal. As […]
Why Teens Kill Themselves
When I woke up this morning, I wasn’t planning on writing about teen suicide and why teens kill themselves. I planned to slowly wake up, watch “Good Morning America” and make my way into the office without a plan. But things change quickly, and here I am doing just that. Let’s save some lives… I […]
Why Teens Self-Harm
Why Teens Self-Harm Let’s talk about why teens self-harm so you as a trusted adult in a teens life can intervene and get the teen the help they’re in need of. We need to be more open about teen mental health in our homes and this is a conversation we need to be having in […]
Teen Suicide and Mental Health
Part one in a series from Teen Suicide: The “Why” Behind America’s Suicide Epidemic For more than two decades, I have worked in the trenches of teen life as a youth motivator and mental health advocate. I am also a suicide prevention and crisis intervention expert. I can’t count the number of teen suicides I […]
Bucks County Technical High School
Teen Mental Health Youth Motivational Speaker delivers epic High School Motivational Assembly at Bucks County Technical High School.
Life Changing Conversation with Teens
Jeff Yalden Inspired by Conversation with Teens Recently, I visited Sequim High School in Washington State. Sequim is a beautiful place along the Dungeness River near the Olympic Mountains – and whenever I am in a spot like this, I feel grateful for the opportunity to take it all in. The Sequim school community was […]
Armed with Hope Conference
Armed with Hope Conference – Omaha, Nebraska Teen Mental Health & Teen Suicide Prevention Expert Jeff Yalden keynotes two years in a row… On October 5, 2019 Teen Mental Health and Teen Suicide Prevention expert Jeff Yalden was invited back as keynote speaker for the Armed with Hope Conference, the second such event for teens […]
Teen Suicide & Mental Health Night at Catholic Church in Fishers, Indiana
The Catholic Church and Suicide Prevention? Holy Spirit Parish at Geist Catholic Church invited teen mental health and suicide prevention expert, Jeff Yalden to Fishers, Indiana to speak truth to parents and the congregation about today’s youth and the suicide epidemic plaguing our country. For more than two hours, Jeff mesmerized the nearly 500 people […]
Drilling Down on The BOOM 28-Day Boot Camp: Day 26
Youth motivational speaker and Amazon bestselling author Jeff Yalden did the following Facebook Live video the day after the horrendous massacre in Las Vegas. “I am at a loss for words over this,” he said. “God bless America. God bless all my friends in Vegas. My prayers and thoughts and condolences to all of […]
Teen Suicide: Helping your Teen Cope with the Sudden Death of a Friend
Teen Suicide . . . A Message to Parents! Teen Suicide seems to be happening more and more in communities all over the country. Teens want answers, Parents are overreacting, Schools are getting blamed, and everyone wants action and a plan now. The greatest influence on our teens at the time of a teen suicide […]