Child Abuse And Family Violence Prevention Programs

Programs are designed to teach participants about conflict resolution, how to acquire problem solving skills, and how to build and maintain healthy relationships.  The goal is to build stronger families where children feel loved and valued and can thrive in a safe and healthy environment. Programs include:

• Parenting Programs
• Child Custody Stress Prevention
• Strengthening Families
• Anger Management

Parenting Programs

Our programs are designed to meet the needs of parents/ caregivers who want to improve their parenting skills, develop child-rearing knowledge and learn and practice the skills needed to raise healthy, happy children.  All participants must complete a phone intake before attending our programs.

• Learn age appropriate child development skills
• Develop and practice positive discipline techniques
• Building family communication
• Develop personal parenting goals
• Understanding family values and roles

Anger Management

Our programs are designed to help participants learn to express strong emotions in a healthy, balanced way. Professional staff will help participants learn: what anger is, how to recognize things that make you angry, ways to recognize feelings of anger, and how to deal with anger.

• How to stay in control
• Communication
• Resolving conflicts
• Setting personal goals

Child Custody Stress Prevention Program

Child Custody Stress Prevention Program works with separating/divorcing parents to focus attention on the needs and development of their children.

Striving to prevent more serious social and emotional harm to children, the program attempts to reduce the conditions which produce stress.

The program focuses on the need for stability between separating parents, to more constructively address custody issues and enhance co-parenting, where it is safe to do so.

Children and parents benefit by experiencing less stress in their lives at an already difficult time.

Since its inception in 1982, this program has helped thousands of families through the difficult process of divorce.

Topics include:

Parents and Children

• Changes caused by marital separation
• Separating marital from parental issues
• Establishing a business like relationship
• Cooperative and parallel parenting

Children’s Needs

• Children’s reaction to divorce, loss, change
• Helping children cope with family re-adjustments
• Successful outcomes for children of divorce
• Talking to children about family change Conflict Resolution and Mediation
• Conflict reduction methods
• Mediation and its application
• Continued parenting and taking
• Responsibility for meeting children’s needs The Legal System
• Child custody law, history, trends
• How courts determine custody

Strengthening Families

Strengthening Families is a nationally recognized and evaluated program for parents and youth. The program is designed to improve family communication, improve family problem solving skills and prevent drug/alcohol use. In the first hour of each session, parents/caregivers and youth meet separately; in the second hour they come together to share and discuss what they’ve learned. The program includes a light family meal. The program runs for 6 weeks meeting once a week. Program content includes:

Parent/Caregiver session includes:

• Protecting against substance abuse
• Handling stress
• Using love and limits
• Encouraging good behavior and using consequences
• Getting help for special family needs

Youth Session includes:

• Drug and alcohol prevention, including skills to resist peer pressure
• Understanding the importance of rules and consequences
• Appreciating parents

Family session includes:

• Improving communication and problem solving skills with youth
• Learning to appreciate the importance of having fun together
• Holding family meetings used to improve overall family functioning