Guiding Good Choices
Five sessions, one hour per session. Parents, grandparents, guardians and caregivers learn how to promote healthy youth development and reduce risky behavior in the teen years. Guiding Good Choices® emphasizes strong family bonds as the key that motivates preteens to follow family guidelines and stay on a course toward better health and educational outcomes as teenagers.
Guiding Good Choices Program
Session 1: Getting Started: How to Promote Health and Wellbeing During the Teen Years
Parents learn about the nature and extent of problem behaviors among teens and decide for themselves how they want to prevent problems in their own families.
Session 2: Setting Guidelines: How to Develop Health Beliefs and Clear Standards
Parents develop clear family guidelines and expectations for behavior.
Session 3: Managing Conflict: How to Deal with Your Anger in a Positive Way
Parents learn to manage family conflict in a way that maintains and strengthens bonds with their children.
Session 4: Avoiding Trouble: How to Say No, Keep Your Friends, and Still Have Fun
Children and parents are invited to this session. They learn skills children can use for staying out of trouble and keeping their friends, while still having fun.
Session 5: Involving Everyone: How to Strengthen Family Bonds
Parents learn ways to strengthen family bonds and increase children’s involvement in their family through the teen years. Parents also learn how to create a parent support network.
Receive a certificate at the end of the program.
Engage in conversation with other parents.
Learn together through engaging conversations between parents.
Receive a certificate at the end of the program.