- 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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