Parenting Skills Program

Y.E.S. Parenting Skills is a psycho-educational program providing practical tools to help parents to detect, prevent and resolve social problems: Such as violence, alcohol and drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, dropout, gangs, depression, and anxiety, and others that are confronted during childhood and adolescents. 

Y.E.S. Parenting Skills is a psycho-educational program providing practical tools to help parents to detect, prevent and resolve social problems: Such as violence, alcohol and drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, dropout, gangs, depression, and anxiety, and others that are confronted during childhood and adolescents. 

The core of the workshop is to detect the child’s early symptoms in order to provide appropriate referrals if needed. Throughout the program, parents will learn how to effectively communicate to their children and gain a deeper insight of major issues concerning their children’s development. Furthermore, Y.E.S. Parenting Skills provides the opportunity for parents to learn how their own behavior, unresolved issues, family patterns can contributes to their children’s behavior. SFP provides parents the opportunity to share common concerns and verbalize their feelings in a non-judgmental environment. Parents learn different techniques that may can apply in their daily life. 

Furthermore, Y.E.S. Parenting Skills provides the opportunity for parents to learn how their own behavior, unresolved issues and negative social family atmosphere can have a negative impact on their children’s behavior. Importantly, parents will learn the process of how their drug, alcohol, depression, stress and anxiety can have an affect on their children’s learning ability and social growth. 

The program ‘Y.E.S. Parenting Skills’ comprehends 3 levels, designed to be given in sequential order. 
Duration: The first two levels have 10 workshops and the third level just five. Every workshop intends to help the parents to develop (unfold) new skills gradually during 10 weeks; where at the end of them the parents will reach a positive behavior modification. Each workshop lasts 1 hour and thirty minutes.
Languages: The program is also available and specially tailored for immigrant parents, provided in Spanish, Hindi and Chinese. 
Capacity: No limit to number of attendants

TOPICS LEVEL I
• Setting Limits: Getting Your Children to Listen to You
• How to Improve Self- Esteem in Children
• The Teenage Search for Identity and the Confrontation with Adults
• Learning Difficulties: Early Detection and Ways to Help Children
• Detecting Depression and Anxiety in Children: Understanding Causes, and Helping Techniques
• Keeping Children Away from Drugs and Alcohol
• When and How to Discuss Sexual Issues with Your Children
• Children of Two Cultures: Understanding Their Difficulties and Needs
• Finding Solutions to Your Children’ School Problems
• How Parents’ Emotional Problems Affect Their Children

TOPICS LEVEL II
• Improving Communication with Adolescents
• How Parents’ Stress and Anxiety Affect their Children
• How Children are affected by Parental Addiction (alcohol, drugs, gambling, etc.) 
• Facing Sexuality in Modern Society
• Helping Children Adjust to Divorce and Remarriage
• Dealing with Tension in a Multicultural Environment
• Improving Communication with Your Partner
• Facilitating Relationships Among Siblings
• Breaking the Cycle of Aggression and Violence
• How TV and the Media Affect Children

TOPICS LEVEL III
• Dealing with Harassment and Bullying
• How to Prevent and Face Teenage Pregnancy
• Anger Management
• How to Detect Abusive Relationships
• Challenges Immigrant Parents Face Raising Children in this Society

We do not list “Abuse” and “Family Violence” as topics, however we include them in every workshop from different points of view.