Parents: Nurturing Parent Program
Parenting is a relationship, not solely a set of skills. --Norma Finklestien
The Nurturing Parenting Program for Families in Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery is only available for parents referred through FamiliesFirst Network of Lakeview Center, Inc. The Nurturing Parent Program is a new psycho-educational, group-based program that assists parents in strengthening their own recovery, facilitating recovery within their families and building a nurturing family lifestyle.
Program Benefits
- Parents develop self-awareness and build nurturing skills using a variety of techniques and activities that accommodate different learning styles.
- Parents explore their childhood experiences, their fears and their strengths.
- Parents explore effects of substance abuse on themselves and their families and strengthen their recovery.
- Parents explore their own process of development as adults in recovery and examine the parallels and differences in the development of their children.
Who Should Participate?
- Adult men and women in treatment and/or recovery for substance abuse problems and who are in parenting relationships with children.
- Partners of parenting adults in treatment and recovery.
The goal of intervention is to provide families with the necessary knowledge, skills, resources and services to build upon their parenting strengths to prevent abuse and neglect.
Empathy is the ability to be aware of the needs and conditions of a child and to respond to that child in a positive way. Empathy forms the cornerstone of the Nurturing Parenting Programs.
Parents who nurture themselves as men and women, who treat themselves with dignity and respect, and who maintain a positive regard for themselves will do a better job being a nurturing parent.
Classes begin April 8, 2008 and will be held every Tuesday and Thursday from
1-3 pm.
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