Promoting Your Teen's Identity

Promoting Your Teen's Identity

Identity refers to our sense of who we are as individuals and as members of social groups. Young people’s identities are defined by many factors and have multiple dimensions. Building identity is necessary to reach healthy human maturity. Therefore, parents should pay attention to identity building to ensure that their young adults grow properly using multiple techniques.


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Join us to dive into these topics and more. In our discussion, we will share many ideas about teens' identity. By the end of this webinar, you can help your teen be the best version of himself.


Ayman Nassar

Founder of the Islamic Leadership Institute of America (ILIA), with over 25 years of experience in enterprise architecture, enterprise, individual transformation, and youth development. Over the past 20 years, he has coached, taught, and counseled hundreds of youth and young professionals and has been a certified mentor and coach with Big Brother Big Sister, Lutheran Social Services, Dar Al-Taqwa, Prince George’s Community College Asian, Latino, African, Native American (ALANA), New Beginnings Youth Center, Howard County Detention Center and ILIA. Ayman is a member of the Howard County Reentry Council and the Howard County Ethnic Diversity Round Table. He holds two Master's degrees in electrical engineering, engineering management, and systems engineering and holds certifications in half a dozen leadership areas. He has been trained in cultural competence, youth development, reentry, psychology, and curriculum development and has devised over 200+ courses and programs for youth and adults. He was faculty at the University of California, Prince George’s Community College, Strayer University, and Howard Community College. He founded Youth Crisis Line and provided stabilization services to hundreds of young adults. 

Esraa Badr

A positive youth development researcher at the Islamic Leadership Institute of America. She holds an MBBCh degree from Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Egypt with focused training in adult and child neuropsychiatry specialties combined with neurology training at Selcuk University, Turkey. Currently, she is a pediatrician at the Ministry of Health and Population, Egypt, and a participant in the Clinical Research Scholars Training Program (CSRT) by Harvard Medical School. She is focused on mental health issues affecting youth as part of her postgraduate studies at the High Institute of Public Health, Egypt. Esraa is also a member of the Mental Health Research Network in Egypt and has participated in several research projects on different mental health issues. She is a writer and mental health promoter with a special interest in parenting issues. Esraa also participated in many civil work projects targeting public awareness about mental health affairs.