Thank you to New York Magazine

Thank you to Anya Kamenetz for featuring the Parents of NY Teens list-serve in their first installment of the 2026 edition of New York Night School.  

➽ Most online parenting groups are geared toward younger kids. The Parents of NY Teens & Young Adults email list (PoNYTYA) is an exception: It’s citywide, has close to 3,000 members, and is full of recommendations for everything from where to get a teen boy a good haircut to the best-priced neuropsych evaluators.

Full newsletter here:

 link.nymag.com/view/56eb36bd487ccde0578bf0b569b0a2860b998a4b44c7dfe5/f60d4432

Join a Virtual Information Session about High School

 

High school offers were released on Thursday, March 5. We welcome all families of students entering high school in fall 2026 to a virtual information session about high school offers, waitlists, and next steps. After the presentation, we’ll respond to your questions. 

• Thursday, March 26, 3pm to 4pm | Event in English. Interpretation provided in Albanian, Korean, Ukrainian, Uzbek and ASL. 

How to join:

At the start, click https://bit.ly/2026SpringHSOffersAndWaitlistSession

• Webinar ID: 963 8868 1116 
• Passcode: 123456
• For phone audio:
• US + 1646 931 3860
• Conference Line: 963 8868 116#
• Passcode: 123456#

We look forward to your participation!

Best regards,
High School Admissions Team 
Office of Student Enrollment

Dungeons & Dragons at the Library - ages 10-18 Friday July 18

  

There is a special Teen & Tween Dungeons & Dragons program tomorrow, Friday, 7/17,  from 4-5pm.

A presenter will be facilitating the one-shot campaign. 

 

RSVP HERE: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/dungeons-dragons-park-slope-auditorium-20250718-0400pm

 

Park Slope Library is at 6^th Avenue and 9^th Street in Park Slope, accessible on the F & G trains (a block away).

 

Reach out to Isaac with questions here: iwomack@bklynlibrary.org

Executive Functioning Tutor Help

 These reviews come from members of the PoNYTYA community.

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I wanted to share that we started getting my 14 year old Executive Functioning coaching through the ADHD Training Center. She was diagnosed with ADHD almost a year ago and homework definitely was the hardest time of the day for all of us. The coach works with her every day for 15-30 minutes via FaceTime and helps her organize her time and workload. It’s made our lives so much easier because we’re not arguing about homework now. I still log into check google classroom and the other portals but by the time I do that she’s already completed her assignments after discussing them with her coach. 

I hope once she develops the skills to manage her homework / studying then we can move onto other things like managing time and organization. 

 

 Www.adhdtrainingcenter.com 

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Jen Genal! I love her! She’s worth every penny! 

Jen Genel, LMSW | New Mom Coaching & Parent Coaching | New York jengenelcoaching.com

Jen Genel has been great for me! https://www.jengenelcoaching.com/

When I priced EF coaches through the Hallowell Center, she was half of their cost. 

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Hi, I highly recommend my friend Aren Cohn.  She specializes in executive functioning and older students.  She is super patient and a great confidante.  Her contact info: https://www.strengthsforstudents.com/

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Gaby is an educational consultant and executive function coach. She has worked with our daughter and is great.

 

Gabriela Deambrosio, MA.Ed. 

Independent Educational Consultant

Gabriela Deambrosio Consulting, LLC

1-203-921-8351

 

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I recommend the following executive function coaches who help support students with ADHD -
Michael Ross - https://mjracademicservices.com/
Noah Nemitoff-Bresler - www.2e.consulting
Thinking Caps Group - https://www.thinkingcapsgroup.com/

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I would like to recommend 

Roseanne LeGrand

She is a certified Executive Functioning coach and even better she is a Speech Language Pathologist so you can put her bill thru insurance.

Roseanne Legrand, ccc/slp, ADHD-RSP

redlightgreenlightservices@gmail.com

Red Light Green Light Learning Services redlightgreenlightservices.com If you need a great EF coach--I want to shout out speech therapist Roseanne Legrand who works online and in-person. She especially likes working with high school and above. rlegrand@speakeasy.net ******************* A sixteen-year old friend is working virtually with Sam at YSA and it is going well.  This seems to be the most affordable option around.  https://youngscholarsacademy.org/events ******************* For those seeking 1on1 in person executive functioning coaching my godson works with this group and they have been great  https://www.conversationstogether.com/executivefunctioningrates

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I recommend Organizational Tutors.  My son saw Sarah and she was great.

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Kristen Klar at the Brooklyn Learning Center. She worked with my son the summer before he left for college as he has had prior issues transitioning to HS from middle school and I thought college might require even more structure than what he and I cobbled together for his HS years.  

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My child has loved and benefited a great deal from their tutor at Brooklyn Learning Center, through their homework therapy program. It’s an amazing combination of skills that is just right for my child, and our insurance covers it as out of network therapy.

 Sex Ed for Tweens & Teens

These are replies from members about sex ed programming available for their kids : 

Ekem Merchant-Bleiberg did a PTA-paid Heath/Sex Ed multi-week residency for 7th and 8th graders at my kids’ small public middle school. She was amazing. Did workshops for parents as well, and was flexible and able to design a thoughtful program that the PTA could afford. I’m not sure how much availability she has, but she is such a great educator.

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I recommend Rachel Lotus. My son’s class had a series of zoom class with her during Covid and I had the opportunity to listen in.   Very age appropriate and engaging.  

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About — The Talk NYC | Sex Education thetalknyc.com

Rachel Lotus is best in class. My daughter has been in classes with her since 7th grade, and my son took a class with her in 4th grade. 

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Seconding Rachel Lotus! She was absolutely FABULOUS! Not only did she do an incredible job with the kids; she also gave an awesome workshop for the parents. The conversations inspired by her visits were terrific and my daughter (and all of the kids) just absolutely loved her. So positive, so direct, so comfortable and pragmatic...she was truly an inspiration. The kids loved her with good reason.

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Ellen Friedrichs! https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/team/ellen-friedrichs/

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Logan Levkoff: https://www.loganlevkoff.com/about

Justine Ang Fonte: https://www.justinefonte.com/

Both are excellent. It might be difficult to schedule either one for time in the remainder of the current school year--they both book up really early (like the summer before) but worth asking.

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Kate Greenberg 

kate.littmangreenberg@gmail.com

She has done puberty workshops for 5th graders and MS in our school (NEST+m). She is engaging and professional.

As part of the service (I suspect it was organized by PTA) an hour long presentation was given to parents/guardians prior to workshops.

It was offered for each grade and included a generous Q&A segment along with PDF presentation f materials that would be part of student workshops.

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Check out Lindsay Fram at sexually smart.

http://www.lindsayfram.com

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Free programming available : 

Sex Ed To-Go for Students | Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest, Inc.

10 Best Sex Ed Resources for Families - Sex Positive Families