Siouxland organizations holding events highlighting internet safety, effective communication between kids and guardians - KTIV Siouxland's News Channel

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - If you’re disquieted astir your child’s usage of technology, bullying and steadfast connection with adults, determination are 2 events present successful Siouxland that could help.

The lawsuit is called “Empowering Our Youth” and it’s a collaboration betwixt the Siouxland Youth Initiative, Siouxland Magazine, the Boys and Girls Club and different section work organizations. The archetypal league is this Thursday, Oct. 20, astatine the South Sioux City College Center from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The 2nd league volition beryllium held connected Tuesday, Oct. 25 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. But the 2nd league volition beryllium held astatine the Boys and Girls Club of Siouxland.

“I cognize we’ve got 4 topics, but arsenic an example, like, we’re not going to instrumentality the telephone away, the telephone is portion of our lives. Now it’s going to beryllium but however bash we usage it safely? And wherefore are parents concerned? Right,” said Stacie Anderson, an Empowering Our Youth organizer.

When the Boys and Girls Club of Siouxland recovered retired astir the sessions, they knew they needed to big one. The 2nd league is hosted astatine the Boys and Girls Club’s “Teen Center,” and matches with the organization’s extremity to instill bully values wrong and extracurricular of the home,

Organizers anticipation the league volition besides exposure parents and teens alike to the Teen Center, which comes implicit with foosball, excavation and the latest gaming consoles.

“We cognize however important this lawsuit is going to be. We anticipation that everybody from retired successful the assemblage comes to articulation us. But archetypal and foremost, we privation to marque definite that our nine members and their families travel retired due to the fact that we cognize however important of an lawsuit this is,” said Kevin Pottebaum, a assets and improvement manager astatine the Boys and Girls Club.

Registration for the “Empowering Our Youth” lawsuit is escaped and presented by Siouxland Magazine. The sessions are geared toward mediate school-aged children and their families.

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