Promote building family strengths expressed throughout the workshop

Summary of the program

The program is developed by Saralee Jamieson and Lisa Wallace as former human environmental sciences specialist and former human development Specialist, University of Missouri Extension, respectively. The aim of the program is to develop character and human competence in the families. According to the recent researches’ families are getting more influences as compared to the previous issues. The main issue is contribution of children schools, adult behavior in society and development of the society.

Strengths of the program

The concern of the present program is to deal with the problems of individuals in the families and dysfunctional family relationships. For instance, the problems related to teen sexual acting, youth suicide, runaways, teen pregnancy, adolescent depression, child abuse and family violence.  There are nine traits of the program including clear roles, communication, spirituality, family and community ties, caring and appreciation, encouragement, cope with the changes, time together as family time, and commitments.

Participant of the programs

Participants of the program are men, women, children, newly married couples, and individuals living in the community.

Workshop content

The workshop deals with issues and problems of step families, cohabitation families, single parent families, cross-generational families, foster and group home families, and joint or shared custody families.