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The Active Parenting Now program for parents of children ages 5-12 is being offered without charge at the CASAC Jamestown office, 501 W. Third St., Suites 3 & 4 Sprinchorn Building, Jamestown, from 3-5 p.m. Tuesday and Aug. 16, 23 and Sept. 6, 12 and 20.
The Chautauqua Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Council is offering Active Parenting Now’s Fourth Edition from Active Parenting Publishers. The evidence-based program is a six-session, two-hour video and discussion program. The program considers child development and parenting in terms of the age/stage of the child within the perspective of varied nuclear families and vignettes representative of diverse cultures. Through this program, parents learn skills that will help them develop cooperation, responsibility and self-esteem in their children.
Active Parenting Now addresses how parents can raise children who are prepared to meet the challenges of their teen years, resist negative peer pressure and thrive in the 21st century. The program includes the workings of the developing child/adolescent brain; handling anger; what parents can do to help their child succeed in school (Seven Smart Strategies) and the importance of contributing to the family via chores. Parents learn positive, non-violent discipline techniques so they can avoid power struggles.
The basis for the parenting program is to create an environment and an experience that permits parents to evaluate their own beliefs and to consciously make personal changes and to do it in a non-threatening confidence building way.
Space is limited. To register, c all Kathleen Colby at 664-3608.