Christine Cerbana has been involved in parenting education for more than twenty years at Colorado State University where she served as director of a grant funded project providing training and technical assistance in developing parenting programs. After leaving CSU, she...
Read More »Jefferson Center is a Colorado community mental health center that partners closely with schools and other community agencies to improve the mental health of children and families. In 2010, Jefferson Center adopted the BrainWise program as a key prevention initiative...
Read More »April, 1999 - Columbine High School: 13 Murders and 21 Injuries No one could have predicted that the unthinkable violence that happened at Columbine High School would be repeated with increasing frequency over the last 19 years. Today, school lock-downs...
Read More »Teens as BrainWise Mentors for Elementary School Students A successful way to boost students' retention of the 10 Wise Ways, and a win-win situation for everyone involved, is for high school students to lead elementary school students in BrainWise-infused games...
Read More »Stanford neuroscientist Dr. Robert Sapolsky is an expert on behaviors, and his research explains what happens to our bodies when they are under stress. The brain interprets any perceived stressful event as a threat, and produces glucocorticoids - hormones that...
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