An Overview of Youth Social Media Trends

Participants will learn the most recent trends in teen usage and abusage of social media and personal electronic communication.
About this Event

This presentation is a detailed, analytical, evidence-based investigation into how young people around the world are reaching out to their peers in both wholesome and self-destructive ways, fulfilling their most profound social-emotional need: contact, affirmation, reassurance, and validation. At a time when adolescent males and females are undergoing powerful body changes and attempting to forge and establish a sense of personal identity for themselves, they are particularly vulnerable to negative influences – and criminal actions – from the outside world.

We will delve into a great number of the factors involved in this phenomenon, and attendees will be given insights, tools, information, tactics, and recommendations from a wide gamut of professionals on how to deal with such a gargantuan and global issue.

Workshop led by Clark Morrow.

Clark Morrow is a retired law enforcement official with 25 years’ experience in school safety, youth issues, and public speaking.

He has appeared nationwide for some of the most prestigious educational and school security organizations in the country. Morrow has received awards and commendations from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Dept, Public Affairs Division; the San Bernardino County Gangs & Drugs Task Force; the National Association of Counties; the School Safety Advocacy Council, the Association of California School Administrators; and many others.

He is retired from the Board of Directors for the California Crime Prevention Officers Association, and from the Board of Directors for the California Association of School Resource Officers.