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Guiding Good Choices
Having a hard time communicating with your adolescent son or daughter? Check out this workshop that promotes positive communication skills:
Next FREE Work Shop Starts Thursday - January 26th, 2012
Workshop will be held at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Oxford Valley Court.
Family style meal hosted by Barnes and Noble at no cost to families during each of the five sessions.
Sign up now to save your seat ! Space is limited.
What is Guiding Good Choices?
A FREE five-part workshop (once per week for 5 weeks) for parents or caregivers of children ages 9-14. The program seeks to promote healthy youth development and to prevent teen alcohol, tobacco and other drug use by helping parents gain skills to:
- Build family bonds,
- Establish and reinforce clear and consistent guidelines and expectations for behavior,
- Teach children skills to resist peer influence,
- Improve family management practice, and
- Reduce family conflict.
Session Topics
Session One – Getting Started
How to Prevent Drug Abuse in Your Family
Session Two – Setting Guidelines
How to Develop Healthy Beliefs and Clear Standards
Session Three – Avoiding Trouble
How to Say No (Children attend this session with their parents.)
Session Four – Managing Conflict
How to Control and Express Anger
Session Five – Involving Everyone
How to Strengthen Family Bonds
Research
GGC is based on research and has been PROVEN to:
- Improve parenting skills and parent-child interactions.
- Reduce adolescent substance abuse.
- Reduce adolescent depressive symptoms.
- Reduce rates of self-harm by teens.
In high quality research studies, children of participants had:
- 40% lower rates of alcohol and marijuana use,
- 54% less progression to more serious substance abuse,
- 26% greater likelihood of remaining drug free if not already using drugs,
- 38% lower rates of self-harm,
- 28% fewer feelings of worthlessness.
Free!
Includes a FREE dinner for the family and FREE onsite childcare! All materials are provided at no cost to participants.
Convenient!
The workshop series is only a five night commitment
Series are available throughout the school year.
To sign up for the free workshop and for more information, Contact: Maura Papazian at Pennsbury LYFT (215) 949-1660, ext. 104 or E-mail at LYFT@uwbucks.org