Parenting Education Classes
Strengthening Families-The Strengthening Families Program is a 14 session, evidence-based parenting skills, children’s social skills, and family life skills training program. Outcomes included increased family strengths and resilience and reduced risk factors for problem behaviors including behavioral problems, emotional, academic and social problems. SFP builds on protective factors by improving family relationships, parenting skills, and improving the youth’s social and life skills. SFP sessions include all the critical core components of effective evidenced-based parenting programs (CDC, 2008) including: parenting and child practice time in the family sessions learning positive interactions, communication and effective discipline.
The parenting sessions review appropriate developmental expectations, teach parents to interact positively with children ( such as showing enthusiasm and attention for good behavior and letting the child take the lead in play activities, increasing attention and praise for positive children’s behaviors, positive family communication, including active listening and reducing criticism and sarcasm, family meetings to improve order and organization, and effective and consistent and effective discipline including reasonable and logical consequences and time outs.
The children’s skill training content includes communication skills to improve parents, peers, and teachers’ relationships, hopes, and dreams, resilience skills, problem solving, peer resistance, feeling, identification, dealing with criticism, anger management and coping skills.
The family sessions allow the parents and children to practice what they learned in their individual sessions in experimental exercises.
Information can be found at the following website https://strengtheningfamiliesprogram.org/about/
Please note: Insurance can not be billed for this service!