"This institute is consistently one of the highest rated sessions at the Smart Marriages conference.
They get absolutely rave reviews."
- Diane Sollee, director

Family Wellness: Survival Skills for Healthy Families is a twelve-hour course for whole
families that teaches the basic skills and patterns that strengthen and support individual and
family growth and wellness. This institute provides the knowledge and skills to use this program in
your community to empower couples and families and promote healthy communities. The training is designed
for therapists, social workers, teachers, ministers, mental health professionals, social service,
foster care and juvenile justice professionals as well as lay community leaders.

Certification in this core curriculum allows attendees to teach the Couples
curriculum which has been used by Better together in Cleveland and the Grand
Rapids Marriage Initiative project. Domestic Violence and Stepfamily
curricula are also available.

This program is known for its interactive, blue collar style and history of
working with multicultural communities. Sessions and content can be easily
adapted based on your community or program needs. All materials necessary for
presenting are provided during the training.

Part I focuses on the theory and content with demonstration of the course.

Part II focuses on your active participation in practicing the coaching and presenting skills.

Part I - FAMILY WELLNESS: Skills for Families in Changing Times,
Part I will focus on the core theory and content of the course. You will see the teaching and
coaching skills demonstrated. This highly interactive program teaches skills in the moment using
audience situations to practice new behaviors.
Objectives:
* Be familiar with the history of parent and family education.
* Know three applications of family education for ethnic and at-risk populations and alternative families.
* Know the theory underlying the Survival Skills for Healthy Families Course.
* Know the content of the Six Session Course.
* Know the three skills and three patterns needed for families to develop healthy individuals.
* Know how to identify and build on the strengths of individuals and families.
* Identify three alternatives to physical discipline.
* Know how to coach parents to talk and listen to each other and to their children to find solutions together.
* Know how to coach couples to be a parenting team as well as loving partners.
* Know three basic skills for teaching large groups of families.

Part II - FAMILY WELLNESS: Skills for Family Wellness Instructors,
Additional theory will be demonstrated with a focus on hands-on practice of coaching skills.
We will coach you to be able to coach individuals or families to talk and listen and work out problems
in a new way. These skills can be used at home, at work, at school, in an educational setting or the
therapy office. Strategies for marketing and recruiting will also be covered.
Objectives:
* Know the theoretical base, the three skills and three healthy patterns for the Family Wellness model.
* Know three applications of family education for ethnic and at risk populations and alternative families.
* Observe, learn, practice and demonstrate the skills for coaching individuals to change behavior
successfully using their real-life situations.

* Practice in teams the skills for teaching large groups of families.
* Know three strategies for working with agencies, schools and churches to present a family education course.
* Be familiar with research which supports the effectiveness of family
education and behavioral rehearsal for healthy change.

ATTENDEES WILL RECEIVE:
Instructor Manual, Interactive Workbook, Demonstration Video and handouts for use in teaching the course.

The Institute trains and certifies instructors in the core Family Wellness program
who are then able to use the additional Family Wellness curriculua
for Couples, Stepfamilies and the Domestic Violence materials:

Couples: The Strongest Link is a Family Wellness curriculum that
includes best ways to recruit, keep, and teach couples with six core sessions for
Couples and six optional sessions that address any program's needs. Topics
include the two cultures couples bring to their relationship,
deployments and long separations, in-laws, blowing on the embers of romance,
and taking the skills you learn to your community. Use for retreats,
courses and weekend seminars.

Domestic Violence affects families, neighbors -- and the generations that come
after. Family Wellness: Domestic Violence is being used in California to prevent as well as
intervene with families affected by violence. Twelve sessions build
strengths in survivors and help those who use power and control to change and
become more respectful and trusting.

Stepfamilies are over 60% of today's families. Family Wellness offers a stepfamily
curriculum that teaches practical skills, offers effective tips, and strengthens stepfamilies for
the special challenges they face in both growing as a couple and raising their
children.

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For additional information about FAMILY WELLNESS
visit: www.familywellness.com or call 831-440-0279

This institute is part of the week-long Smart Marriages conference.

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