|
|
SERVICES
FOR PARENTS
 The Family Support Center's flexible
parent assistance services, helpful manuals, and crisis counseling
can guide you through challenges of parenting children from
preschool through adolescence. We help schools with programs geared
to all age groups, but we also provide assistance on an individual
basis. Ask your school's guidance counselor for available FSC
programs to help you meet your challenges as a parent, including:
|
- Education and Support
-
Parent groups may request and schedule educational presentations and
workshops. These one-time events can help parents understand and
support their children's developmental needs. To meet families' varied
needs, services are available during the day, in the evening, and on
the weekend. Possible topics for presentations and workshops may
include:
-
-
• Alcohol and drug information
-
• Communication and listening skills
-
• Limit-setting and discipline
-
• Encouragement
-
• Role clarification
-
• Value clarification
-
• Self-esteem
-
• Networking
-
• Empowerment
-
• Emotional intelligence
-
• Sibling rivalry
-
• Homework issues
-
• Cooperation issues
-
• Crisis intervention
-
• Red-flag behaviors
-
• Parenting skills for various age groups
-
• Risk-taking behaviors
-
- Preschoolers
-
- Elementary school children
-
- Middle school children/Preadolescents
-
- High school children/Adolescents
-
• Parenting for children with special needs
-
- Different learning styles
-
- Separation and divorce
-
- Step families
-
- Eating disorders
|
|
Top
of Page
|
- Clinical Assessment
-
If a child's behavioral or academic difficulties reflect temporary
coping difficulties, a mental health problem, alcohol or other drug
use, or a combination of issues, a thorough assessment is essential to
determine the most appropriate course of action. Using information
from the student, parents, teachers, guidance counselors, and other
key adults, an in-depth evaluation is performed and recommendations
for follow-up action, community resources, or outside treatment
services are made.
|
|
Top
of Page
|
- Early Screening and Behavior Review
-
If a child's appearance, behavior change, or attitudes worry a
parent, if a parent wonders if there is already a serious problem with
a child, or if the behavior he or she is noticing may lead to a
serious problem in the future, an Early Screening/Behavior Review may
be requested. This service is a rapid, informal evaluation of an
individual student, followed by practical recommendations to parents.
The approach is flexible and tailored to each situation. The emphasis
is on what is best for the individual child. If follow-up is
recommended, possibilities may include a specific kind of assessment,
a support group, parent education, or a new strategy by the classroom
teacher, and others.
|
|
