Building Healthy Individuals, Families, and Communities: Creating Lasting Connections

by Ted N. Strader, David A. Collins, Tim D. Noe

Overview

Youth have nearly always exhibited behaviors that frustrate adults. It can be diffi­ cult to understand why young people engage in risky or destructive behavior, and it is challenging to develop strategies to encourage more healthy and responsible behavior among our youth. However, it is helpful to realize that despite the fact that large numbers of youth engage in frightful and destructive behaviors for pe­ riods of time during adolescence and early adulthood, a large proportion of youth find a way not only to survive but also to bounce back and contribute significantly to the furtherance of human development. We are not the first generation of adults to experience the pain, fear, and frustration of dealing with our youth. More important, we recognize that we are not helpless when faced with the problems youth experience. While it is true that adolescents have always exhibited problem behaviors, a number of effective tools and approaches have always been at our disposal to assist with appropriate youth development. Of course, the most effective approaches require a tremendous amount of focused time and energy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461542452
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	12/06/2012
Series:	Prevention in Practice Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Strader, Ted N.; Collins, David A.; Noe, Tim D.

Table of Contents

1 The Need for Prevention.- 2 What Works Today in Prevention.- 3 A Prevention Program that Works: Creating Lasting Family Connections.- 4 Illustrative Examples from the Parent and Youth Training Components.- 5 The Creating Lasting Family Connections Community Mobilization Strategy.- 6 Questions and Answers about Creating Lasting Family Connections.- Conclusion.- Appendix A Resiliency Factors by Domain and CLFC Components.- Appendix B The CLFC Program Logic Model.- Appendix C Integrating CLFC Materials into Community Prevention Efforts.- References.

Editorial Reviews

3 stars from Doody

This is a well-organized, concise book with a focus on building healthy individuals, families, and communities by creating lasting family connections. It is much like a handbook, only 112 pages long, which can be easily accessed for information and contains excellent illustrative dialogs as examples. Clearly written, this book can be easily read as the authors progress step-by-step in showing how to mobilize a community to bring about change through education, training, and role-playing with both youth and parents. The training is directed towards increasing self worth, respect for oneself and others, and self control. Also there is a focus on developing independence and responsibility. Anyone interested in building stronger communities with increased healthy interrelationships among families would find this book helpful. In involving the community, there are five stages. Stage I involves selecting and recruiting sponsoring community organizations. Next is Stage II in which a community advocate team is recruited and trained. Family recruitment is then enlisted in Stage III by the community advocate team utilizing regular social events, information meetings, newsletters, local media, and face-to-face contact. How to retain family commitment is described in Stage IV, and Stage V is the successful transfer of the responsibility for the services to the community. Though this book is focused on substance abuse prevention, the application can be used much more broadly. The authors suggest proper application of methods pulls the communities together by using their strengths and aiding youth, parents, and communities in solving their problems. The structure can easily be expanded tohelping teenage mothers, teaching parenting skills to young people, helping with conflict resolution, increasing parent-child involvement, and developing vocational training programs.

Janet E. Ordway

Describes a model based on an ecumenical, community-based program focusing on increasing family, community, and individual protective factors that would lead to reducing frequency of alcohol and other drug use among at-risk 12-14-year olds. While the program focuses on alcohol and other drug-related issues and outcomes, much of the approach is applicable to youth and families across a larger spectrum of issues and behaviors, including violence and sexual behavior. Strader is affiliated with the Council on Prevention and Education: Substances, Inc. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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