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Are your teen services particularly strong in accommodating teen's interests? Do you help teens form strong relationships with each other or with community members? Tell us how by clicking the + button underneath the relevant learning sphere and posting a green note like this one!

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Tell us what you find challenging about connecting teens with interests, opportunity, and relationships by posting a red note within the relevant category. Comment or like other people's posts to share ideas or support!

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I work with libraries with varying needs. It can be difficult to keep track of them all and maintain working relationships with that many especially with director turn over.

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We do pretty well learning the interests of teens who are present in the library, but would like to learn and highlight interests of teens we are not currently reaching to better reflect the interests of the community.

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we are on a campus with all three schools around us so we know a lot of the teens as we are a hang out after school

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we are on a campus with all three schools around us so we know a lot of the teens as we are a hang out after school

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Teens form strong relationships with each other during a regular game night at the library every month. 

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Teens form strong relationships with each other during a regular game night at the library every month. 

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We have strong relationships with our middle schoolers and a robust population to get feedback and buy-in from. We also have a great relationship with our media specialist.

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We are 15 miles from the High School but 1 mile from the Elementary School, so we serve elementary school students frequently, but don't have many high school students come into the library. How do we draw them in?

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We are 15 miles from the High School but 1 mile from the Elementary School, so we serve elementary school students frequently, but don't have many high school students come into the library. How do we draw them in?

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We have a wonderful space just for teens at our main branch.

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We have a large community of retired people who have amazing skills to teach.

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We have a large community of retired people who have amazing skills to teach.

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Most of our libraries are close to the schools

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Most of our libraries are close to the schools

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It can be hard to get away from the branch to do more outreach because of staffing. I also really struggle to get our high school population, especially because they don't want to come when the middle schoolers are here.

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Our challenge is that they do not come to the library, "Why should we, we can find it all online"

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Our challenge is that they do not come to the library, "Why should we, we can find it all online"

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We are trying to rectify this with the new Mobile Outreach Programs

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I feel like our library is stuck in entertaining teens instead of aligning teen programs with teen driven outcomes.

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I feel like our library is stuck in entertaining teens instead of aligning teen programs with teen driven outcomes.

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we have an increasing number of homeschooled children and I would like to offer programs for them

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we have an increasing number of homeschooled children and I would like to offer programs for them

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We regularly have teen choice community guests present during our Teen Reading Lounge

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We have a wonderful YA Collection and encourage requests. 

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We have a wonderful YA Collection and encourage requests. 

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Outreach has allowed me to build a relationship with teens where when they do come into the library, they're excited to see me and I recognize them it's great

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Because our library is only accessible during school due to transportation issues, it can be hard to get input from everyone that isn't a regular library user.

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Space is a challenge in our small library with over 1000 teens within a mile.  Meeting them "where they are" by going into the school has been key.

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Space is a challenge in our small library with over 1000 teens within a mile.  Meeting them "where they are" by going into the school has been key.

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We should all be aware that the stereotype of building relationships through food should be examined in the light of the fact that disordered eating has doubled among teens since the pandemic and is a deterrent to participation and in fact a trigger for many teens today.  High school counselors contacted me for a book list about teens with eating disorders because of on-going issues in my community.

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We should all be aware that the stereotype of building relationships through food should be examined in the light of the fact that disordered eating has doubled among teens since the pandemic and is a deterrent to participation and in fact a trigger for many teens today.  High school counselors contacted me for a book list about teens with eating disorders because of on-going issues in my community.