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Family
Skill Building Program
Program
Description
Solutions for Living's
Family Skill Building Program is designed as a
time-intensive, home-based, comprehensive array of
coordinated services. In this model a therapist and
Parent Mentor work together to reinforce family strengths
and nurture the development of home and child management
skills.
The complementary roles
of therapist, providing task-focused, reality-based
family therapy, and the Parent Mentor, providing a nurturing, non-authoritarian relationship,
result in more effective and reinforced learning of the
skills required for improved family functioning.
The intervention team
utilizes both concrete and psycho-educational strategies,
such as behavioral contracts, chore distribution charts,
communication exercises, problem-solving and conflict
resolution techniques, to reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect,
improve parenting skills and strengthen the family unit.
The following are some of
the characteristics that frequently describe the
Program's target
population:
- Chronically
dysfunctional family dynamics resulting from a
history of alcoholism, drug abuse, psychiatric
conditions, or physical illness
- Counterproductive
family interactions resulting from a recent
crisis from which the family system has been
unable to recover
- Poor child
management practices on the part of
parents--frequently as a result of their own negative
family experiences
- The parents'
inability to manage the process of adolescent
development because of unresolved issues in
their own emotional development
- The lack of an
appropriate climate within the family system for
the effective management
of feelings, particularly anger
- Severe emotional,
attitudinal, and behavioral problems on the part
of pre-adolescent and adolescent members of the
family
- Families in which
parents are cognitively limited
- Young mothers and
their children
The Program provides the
following services:
- family intervention
- parent mentoring
- group counseling
- crisis intervention
- advocacy and
community resource counseling
- nutritional advocacy
- budgeting assistance
- housing advocacy
- medical advocacy
- health promotion
- family mediation
Program services are
generally provided within a three-month or six-month
timeframe.
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Counseling, Advocacy and Dispute Resolution Services
For Children, Adolescents, Families, and the Community
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