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  • Fostering a positive sense of self-identity
  • Maintaining a good connection to family and friends
  • Maintaining a strong connection to culture
  • Ensuring teens are enjoying hobbies or activities outside of school hours
  • Family guidance
  • Ensuring there's a positive engagement with the school and the teachers there
  • Fostering a sense of optimism for the future; and
  • Helping teens build the capacity to identify and regulate their emotions

"The more time you spend with them and have those incidental conversations, the more you get a sense of what that child's well-being is over time."

"Have broad conversations … so that you can be a safe harbour for them to talk about all the good things, as well as some of the challenging things."

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