The Strengthening Families Program is an evidence-based parent, youth, and family skills-building curriculum that:
Program Features:
Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 can help your family learn to manage emotions, set goals, avoid peer pressure, make better decisions and create better relationships.
You will learn how to show love while setting limits, how to listen to your child and how to help family members show appreciation to each other.
All families have strengths. This program will help your family become even stronger!
- Prevents teen substance abuse and other behavior problems
- Strengthens parent/youth communication skills
- Increases academic success in youth
- Prevents violence and aggressive behavior at home and at school
Program Features:
- Developed for parents and youth ages 10-14
- Designed for a group of 7-10 families
- Consists of seven, two-hour sessions with dinner served before the start of the session
- Led by three certified facilitators with separate sessions for youth and parents and then families together
- Builds communication and allows parents and youth to practice skills with learning games and family projects
Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 can help your family learn to manage emotions, set goals, avoid peer pressure, make better decisions and create better relationships.
You will learn how to show love while setting limits, how to listen to your child and how to help family members show appreciation to each other.
All families have strengths. This program will help your family become even stronger!
Topics covered during the program include:
Youth Sessions
Youth Sessions
- Goals and dreams
- What’s easy and hard about being a youth/parent
- Why parents are stressed
- Understanding stress
- Rules and consequences for breaking rules
- How drugs and alcohol can get you in trouble
- Peer pressure resistance skills
- Good and bad qualities of friends
- Peer panel
- Love and limits
- Supporting youth’s dreams and goals
- Need for house rules and using “I” statements
- Point charts to encourage good behavior
- Building a positive relationship
- Making consequences fit the behavior
- Listening to youth
- Meeting basic needs – belonging, enjoyment, power, independence
- Protecting against alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use in youth
- Mentoring youth
- Getting help and finding resources
- Learning more about family members
- Family tree/family strengths
- Family meetings
- Family values/family shield
- Joint problem solving
- Reaching goals
- Parents share dreams and expectations with youth
For more information about the program or to enroll in the next session, please contact:
Shelby Liebegott, Program Coordinator
sliebegott@tiu11.org
Shelby Liebegott, Program Coordinator
sliebegott@tiu11.org