Serving Youth: S.Y.A.S.S.: Save Your After School Sanity! Saturday, March 27    10:15 AM - 11:30 AM     Room:  Oregon Convention Center – C123-124 Sharon  Henegar  Coordinator of Children's Services, OC Public Llibraries  Stephanie  Beverage  Director, Huntington Beach Public Library  Karen  Kolb Peterson  Youth Services Coordinator, Saint Paul Public Library  Carla  Hope  Branch Manager, Rancho Santa Margarita Branch, OC Public Libraries  Helen  Richardson  Branch Manager/Cypress Branch, OC Public Libraries  Dave  Wilmes  Director of Services, St. Paul Youth Services  Teen behavior can range from perfectly pleasant to mere nuisance to outright hazardous. If your teens are out of control and your staff is out of patience, learn how you can work together with an appropriate, unified response to create after school peace in your library. Use community resources to help your staff look at environments, examine their practices and preconceived notions, and turn things around. We did it and you can, too! Benefits and Learning Objectives At the end of this program, participants will be able to create an atmosphere in which real library use is possible for all ages, and how to partner with other community agencies to help teens. At the end of this program, participants will understand the importance of involving the entire staff in creating After School Sanity. At the end of this program, participants will know what to say to unruly, uncooperative teens to get the behavior we need.