By KARI BLURTON
Hays Post

Advice  and support for parents facing the challenges of raising a teenager is planned for Monday evening.

“I would encourage any parent of a teenager or pre-teen to come to the seminar so they won’t feel alone,” speaker Jenni Reling said. “I think a lot of parents of teens do feel alone sometimes.”

Reling, who has a master’s degree in family life education from Kansas State University,  says she travels across Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska providing parents with strategies on how to set boundaries while not alienating your teen.

Reling said the upcoming seminar will also focus on underage drinking.

“We will be covering how (a teenager’s) brain develops and how alcohol effects the teen brain differently than an adult’s,” Reling said.

The event is sponsored by Hays based coalition Everyday Prevention Impacting Community and the Regional Prevention Center.

Jodi Sproul, executive director of the Smoky Hill Foundation and Regional Prevention Center,  added the seminar “will aid parents in dealing with the day to day issues impacting adolescents and teens”

Sproul encouraged parents to attend, adding “any resource, tool or kernel of information that may help guide and steer our youth in a positive direction is definitely worth seeking out.”

The seminar is at 7 p.m. Monday at the Hays High School lecture hall.

For more information, call (785) 625-5521.