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Family Strengthening: Reaching for the STARS
Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites for this class. If you are court ordered
to enroll, you must enroll yourself and have a letter of referral
from the
agency that wanted you to come to bring to class. If you do not have
an agency that has referred you, just come as you are.
Goals:
- Building children with a high self-esteem, self-determination,
and social competence.
- Building parents with a high self-esteem, self-determination, and
social competence.
- Having an ongoing parent information and resource dialog and connection
via Internet.
Synopsis of the program:
This program is a training for “parents” with children between
3 and 18 years of age. The program aims to prevent violence against the
self, violence in the family and violence against the community. The
program stresses positive communication and discipline strategies to
enhance a child’s self-esteem, self-discipline and social competence.
The program includes anger management techniques and developmental information.
A variety of teaching practices will be utilized: modeling, role-play,
lecture and discussion.
The program is structured into 5 components. In each component parents
will:
- Cultural/Spiritual-History/Values Based
Develop an understanding of how family history and culture influence
values and behaviors
- Rites of Passage
Implement home activities, which transition a child from childhood
to adulthood.
- Parent-Child Relationships
Use positive communication techniques and set developmentally appropriate
expectations.
- Positive Discipline
Demonstrate a variety of techniques to increase respectful behavior
and decrease disrespectful behavior.
- Community Involvement
Access and utilize community resources to promote violence-free
lifestyles.
Outline of the Program:
- Attend all 8 sessions on-time and leave on-time
- Complete a pre and posttest
- Complete outside assignments which include the follow but not limited
too:
- Weekly journals with your child (7)
- Complete five
computer assisted learning modules with post scores
of 90% or higher.
- Tape with my own child or loaner child: strategies introduced
in the course - and obtain instructor critique for
each
PRAISE, IGNORE, TEACH, TIMEOUT, SOLVE, TRY, and SAFETY
- Design a volcano with your child or a loaner child
to develop a crisis diversion and anger control
plan for self and target
child.
- Demonstrate ability to change behavior of child/significant
other through attention profile demonstrated
in class.
- Participate in weekly tests over material taught.
- Participate in technology training sufficient
to complete above-included but not limited
to scanning documents,
using email to communicate,
searching internet for child/ adolescent
parenting resources.
- Maintain confidentiality
- Post information to an online portfolio that we, together, set
up.
- Provide a written recommendation, if instructed to participate,
from referral agency.
DAYCARE IS NOT PROVIDED
The next session begins:
TBA
If you would like information regarding this program please contact
Jane Adams at
(785) 233-8732 or (800) 499.8732
Classes are approved by KCSL to satisfy court-mandated parent training.
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