Parenthetical

4198 Nancy Nicholas Hall

UW-Madison/Extension

1300 Linden Drive

Madison, WI 53706

TO: FLE and 4H/Youth Development Colleagues

FROM: Steve Small, Human Development & Family Relations Specialist, Family Living Education

Becky Mather, Outreach Specialist, Family Living Education, Cooperative Extension

Anne Clarkson, Interim Outreach Specialist, Family Living Education, Cooperative
Extension

DATE: May 2, 2013

RE: NEW! Online Parenting Resource for parents of 10-16 year olds

We’re excited to announce the release of a new UWEX, Cooperative Extension online Parenting resource. It’s calledParentheticaland it’s available to educators and parents throughout the stateat parenthetical.wisc.edu. Parentheticalis a combination blog, website and social network for parents of 10-16 year old tweens and teens designed to provide parents and other caregivers with ongoing education, support and networking.

We’d like to get your assistance getting the word out about Parentheticalto parents of adolescents within your county and across the state. While our primary focus is on parents within Wisconsin, feel free to share the site with contacts that you may have outside of Wisconsin as well.

We have developed a publicity kit containing a variety of promotional resources for your use. The publicity kit is available at: parenthetical.wisc.edu/press-materials.

In order to download the publicity kit, you’ll need the following information:

USERNAME:

PASSWORD: parentpress

The promotional kit contains:

  • A news release that can be shared through local press and newsletters.
  • Two short descriptions of the project suitable for sharing within an email, on a website or through social media.
  • Three "memes" – photographs with a short snappy message and the URL for the website. Memes can be printed as postcards and posters, posted to websites and shared through Facebook and/or email.
  • Four flyers with information about Parenthetical and tear-offs with the site URL.
  • Two promotional PowerPoints that describe the site. The first is directed toward county board members and other stakeholders. The second is geared for parents.

We’d greatly appreciate it if you would share information about the Parentheticalwebsite through your county website, Facebook page and newsletters as well as other listservs, local papers, libraries, school districts, and youth and family-serving organizations in your county.

Please feel free to distribute these promotional materials widely within your networks and connections.

If you need more information about the site, would like hard copies of any of the promotional materials, or would like to discuss the possibility of having us present about the website to a group in your county, please email us at or at our individual email addresses: , , .

Thanks in advance for your help!