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Building Healthy Life Skills is an exciting and informative
12- Week Course FREE for Parents and Children.
You Will:
- Improve Personal and Family Relationships
- Understand how Trauma Affects the Brain
- Raise Resilient Children using Scientific Principles
- Learn the Keys to Self-Control
- Discover The 7 Most Important Questions of Every Relationship
First 5 Merced County is dedicated to improving the lives of Merced's young children and their families through a comprehensive system of education, health services, childcare, and other crucial programs like ACE Overcomers: Building Healthy Life Skills.
Building Healthy Life Skills is an evidence-based curriculum which promotes children's social competence, emotional regulation, and problem-solving skills to reduce potential behavior problems. Parents learn strong emotional and social skills that enable them to build resiliency, improve communication skills and improve family life. Reduces school drop-out, violence, drug abuse, and delinquency in later years.
Participation & Eligibility
Building Healthy Life Skills is intended for parents (or expecting parents/prenatal) of children ages 0 through 5 years old. This course is free of charge, and to participate you must reside in Merced County.
- Classes are every Monday night from 6-8PM
- 12-week course
- Children (ages 0-12) attend a class especially for them. Teenagers will attend class with their parents.
- Parents must be willing to participate in a Pre-and Post-Questionnaire administered by the University of Merced.
- Location: First Baptist Church | 500 Buena Vista Drive | Merced, CA
Benefits for Parents & Teens
- Manage anger and stress
- Become aware of not only your child's needs, but also your own individual needs
- Improve self-worth
- Gain problem solving, decision making, compromising and negotiating skills
- Acquire appropriate discipline skills
Benefits for Children
- The Incredible Years: Incredible Years Dinosaur's Curriculum
- Social skills and problem solving
- Emotional regulation
- Learn suitable ways to express feelings
- Understand importance of respect and family morals and values
- Develop positive self-worth
Registration
To learn more, make a referral or to participate please contact me directly at 209.658.9558 or phillipschmauss@gmail.com.
THIS PROGRAM IS FUNDED BY FIRST FIVE MERCED COUNTY.
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