. To conduct or fund activities for parents and other adults that regularly interact with children and adolescents that promote understanding of the vital role they play and add to their technical knowledge of children/adolescents issues. To conduct or fund activities that improve communication and interactions between adults and children/adolescents. Adults (particularly parents, teachers and ministers) can engage in dialogue, provide answers, and convey a willingness to listen to their children. To conduct or fund programs/events that are empathic with children/adolescent experiences and strengthen social support for children/adolescent so as to encourage positive roles for these future adults in our culture. We need to promote appropriate forms of self- expression, appreciate their efforts and learn from them. To conduct or fund opportunities for children/adolescents to be better prepared to face the challenges of growing up. To conduct or fund activities that help children/adolescents resist debilitating and dangerous conventions of femininity and masculinity and to resist ignorance about their own bodies, which serve to harm them. They need to be empowered with honest relationships and trustworthy information. To conduct or fund activities that help children/adolescents mature so that they can avoid problems of school dropout, suicide, pregnancy, etc. To help children/adolescents with emotional immaturity to catch up on an individual basis.