The Coronado Family University was developed by the Coronado SAFE in recognition of the important role parents play in keeping healthy families healthy. Family University currently offers two main multi-classed courses: Developing Capable Young People and Parent to Parent. In addition to these crucial classes, Coronado SAFE is proud to announce the addition of ongoing evening seminars and daytime workshops. For more information on any of the classes offered through Family University, contact Andrea Webster at Coronado SAFE, andrea.webster@coronadosafe.org, 619-522-6884.

 

PARENT TO PARENT is a course that provides parents the education they need to discuss important and often difficult issues with their children. Even the best parents struggle with the teenage years. Through better communication, you can pass on to your children the self-assurance and skill they need to resist the attractions of negative behaviors.

 

PARENT TO PARENT teaches you how to communicate about difficult issues more openly with your children as well as provides the opportunity to talk to other parents facing similar concerns. The course helps you to:

• Increase communication

• Learn to recognize changes in your child

• Help you child learn ways to avoid at-risk behavior

• Increase your knowledge and skill to talk to your child about drugs, sex, alcohol and violence.

PARENT TO PARENT is a powerful course for all of us who care about our children. The course addresses the following topics and assists parents in developing the level of confidence, commitment and competence needed to guide children through their adolescent passage during these complicated times.

 

Topics include:

• “The Toxic Culture” – Discover how to put yourself between your children and today’s “toxic” culture. Learn how to evaluate some of the negative beliefs that are promoted in the toxic culture.

• “Awareness is your best friend” – Learn how to recognize what the changes in your children mean and help your child develop positive character traits.

• “Never cry alone” – Learn how to share your thoughts and feelings with your children.

• “Building a family vision” – Learn how to develop a vision for family success and create and implement your own belief system.

PARENT TO PARENT classes help you to gain a better understanding of the problems your child may face as a pre-adolescent.

• The course helps you to relate to alcohol and drug use and the impact it may have on your child.

• The course helps you to recognize the need for your child to be accepted by his/her peers while learning ways to advise them on how to say no.

• You will learn to understand your adolescent’s feelings and ways to assist them in handling their complex feelings so they can make positive choices.

"Parent to Parent" Brochure (English)

"Parent to Parent" Brochure (Spanish)

 

DEVELOPING CAPABLE YOUNG PEOPLE prepares adults who with children or who work with young people to help them develop the three perceptions and four skills that determine how effectively people deal with life.  Young people who gain strength in these assets normally increase in character, resiliency, and other human intelligence essential for successfully meeting the challenges of life. This training program is designed to increase the effectiveness of families, schools, and organizations in developing the personal assets and resources of young people. This class is designed for anyone who wants to:

• Help youth increase achievement, motivation, and discipline

• Encourage young people to be accountable for their actions

• Dramatically improve parent and/or teacher effectiveness

• Encourage youth asset development

• Promote conflict resolution

• Increase school and/or family cohesiveness

• Develop safe and effective homes, schools, and/or youth programs

• Promote resiliency

• Reduce factors that influence violence and aggression

DEVELOPING CAPABLE YOUNG PEOPLE - GOALS & OBJECTIVES

 

SESSION ONE: Changing Relationships

• Identify factors in modern society and lifestyles that are creating new challenges.

• Develop an understanding of the seven resources of exceptionally capable people.

SESSION TWO: Working With Perception

• Develop an understanding of the critical role perception play sin attitude, motivation and behavior.

• Learn how to use 5 keys to working effectively with people’s perceptions.

SESSION THREE: Help People See Themselves as Capable

• Learn how to avoid the FIVE BARRIERS to healthy relationships.

• Learn how to implement the FIVE BUILDERS of healthy relationships.

SESSION FOUR: Help People See Themselves as Significant

• Identify the greatest human need.

• Identify three conditions necessary to meet the greatest human need.

SESSION FIVE: Help People See Themselves as Having Influence

• Identify conditions in our current lifestyle that encourage an External Locus of Control

• Learn behaviors that foster an internal Locus of Control

SESSION SIX: Develop Self-Discipline

• Recognize approaches that discourage self-assessment, self-control and self-discipline.

• Teach the relationship between feelings, actions, and results.

• Structure the environment to teach the difference between wants and needs.

SESSION SEVEN: Develop Skills to Work With Others

• Conceptualize the skills needed to interact effectively with others.

• Model/teach dialogue as the basis of human interaction.

• Identify and avoid barriers and obstacles that affect listening and communication.

SESSION EIGHT: Develop Responsibility

• Learn to avoid approaches that encourage irresponsibility

• Convey unqualified acceptance, love and/or respect.

• Learn to teach responsibility through natural/logical consequences and results.

SESSION NINE: Develop Judgment

• Learn strategies that encourage the development of judgmental skills.

• Provide role-taking experiences

• Apply the process of “Social Inoculation” to behavioral health problems in young people.

SESSION TEN: MAINTAIN PERSONAL PROGRESS

• Share ideas and strategies you have learned and how you will apply them to specific solutions.

• Assess personal progress

• Maintain family, school, and/or program cohesiveness

• Share the process with significant others.