Strengthening Families Workshop

3801 Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard,Kansas City MO 64130

01 July, 2021

Description

Sponsored by Kansas City Health Department in collaboration with Core Changing Concepts, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. This educational family workshop for caregivers and youth ages 7 - 17 years utilizes The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) to increase family engagement, communication, and families ability to resolve conflict in non-violent ways. This workshop is free. Dinner is provided and gift cards for attendance! The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is an evidence-based family skills training that is recognized both nationally and internationally. Parents and youth attend six weekly SFP skills classes together, learning parenting skills and youth life and refusal skills. They have separate class training for parents and youth the first hour, followed by a joint family practice session the second hour. SFP skills-training proved to be effective in reducing multiple risk factors for later alcohol and drug abuse, mental health problems, and delinquency. Participants reported: Increased family bonding Increased parental involvement Increased positive parenting skills Increase positive communication Increased family organization Decreased family conflict Decreased youth depression Decreased youth aggression Increased youth cooperation Increased number of prosocial friends Increased youth social competencies Increased youth school grades Dinner and gift cards provided for attendance each session! To achieve the organization's mission of increasing equitable resources that reduce social determinants of health and promote good social, physical and mental health in urban communities, Core Changing Concepts (C3) provides support, service and programming to diverse, multi-cultural, urban communities. Programming is designed to: • Increase life expectancy • Increase conflict management skills • Increase healthy relationships • Increase resilience • Decrease family/community violence • Decrease depression and anxiety • Decrease substance and/or alcohol use