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The Strengthening Families Program The Charlottesville/Albemarle Prevention Coalition Region Ten Community Services Board
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Program Structure: The Strengthening Families Program is a 14-week family skills training program It Is Different than parent education, or children’s social skills training in that children and parents are intensively trained together.
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Curriculum contains three courses: Parent’s Skills Training Children’s Skills Training Family Life Skills Training
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Program Night: Starts with half an hour of dinner and socializing. Each session is 2 hours in length. 1 st Hour: Children and Parents participate in separate classes, led by 1-2 trained bachelors or masters level facilitators. 2 nd Hour: Children and parents participate in Family Skills Training Session TOGETHER, led by 2-3 facilitators.
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Strengthening Family Program Incentives: Program is Free of Charge Dinner provided Transportation provided if necessary Drawings for gift-certificates for parents each session Regular social rewards for children; earned rewards at set session intervals Incentives for attendance. Graduation celebration to celebrate with other family and friends.
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Engage in therapeutic child play Practice communication skills Practice structured family activities Learn to hold Family Meetings Practice effective limit-setting Plan family activities
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Benefits Extended by: Weekly telephone coaching contacts with participant parents by program facilitators.Weekly telephone coaching contacts with participant parents by program facilitators. Formal booster session on family skills 3- months after program completion.Formal booster session on family skills 3- months after program completion. Support and camaraderie between parent participants and positive social interactions between child participants.Support and camaraderie between parent participants and positive social interactions between child participants.
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DECREASED parental distress Parental perception of child as a difficult child total parenting stress DECREASED parental reports of children’s problem behavior. Local Outcomes INCREASED parental reports of overall improvements in their child’s social skills.
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Strengthening Families Program Recognitions Model Program: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Programs That Work: National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Promising Program: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice Exemplary Program: U.S. Department of Education
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