Danita A. Johnson Hughes Ph.d.

Influencing Today's Youth: Shaping the Behaviors, Expectations, and Aspirations of Tomorrow's Leaders (Volume 1) Danita A. Johnson Hughes Ph.d.

Embrace Your Chance to Shape the Future. As the world changes faster each day, so do our youth. Cell phones, email, texting, the internet, and a host of other technologies make today?s kids smarter?and in some ways harder to guide toward good choices. It?s enough to make any adult throw up their hands in despair. But with issues of violence, drugs, sex and others that children and youth are exposed to on a daily basis, giving up is simply not an option. In Influencing Today?s Youth: Shaping the Behaviors, Expectations, and Aspirations of Tomorrow?s Leaders, author Danita Johnson Hughes, Ph. D., shares powerful principles that will help adults influence today?s youth to rise above adversity, navigate through societal and peer pressure, and make smarter choices in all aspects of life. Whether you?re a parent, teacher, childcare worker, youth coach, social worker, psychologist, youth service worker, or youth advocate, you?ll discover how you can be a positive influence in the lives of tomorrow?s leaders?today.