strengthening families 10-14 workshop
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Workshop Presentation from the Evidence Based Parenting Programmes and Social Inclusion conference held at Middlesex University, 20th September 2012TRANSCRIPT
EVIDENCE BASED PARENTING PROGRAMMES AND SOCIAL INCLUSION
SEPTEMBER 2012
The Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 (UK)
Debby Allen and Lindsey Coombes
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
My Strong Family Centre and the SFP10-14(UK) Overview of the Strengthening Families Programme A substance misuse programme? Reducing risk and building protective factors How it all ‘fits together’ Research findings
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
My Strong Family Centre
Highly qualified, experienced trainers
Programme that buildssustainability
Expert guidance in setting up and establishing programme delivery
Evidence based programme
Culturally adapted for the UK
A UK wide network of SFP10-14 facilitators
Provide comprehensive advice on all aspects of working with families
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
SFP 10-14(UK)
SFP 10-14 (UK) development in the UK resulted from high quality scientific research studies from Iowa State University in the United States that examined the original US programme effectiveness
My Strong Family Centre, which is based in the School of Health and Social Care at Oxford Brookes University has the sole license to adapt and develop the SFP 10-14
The SFP10-14(UK) is an evidenced based programme, which has been highlighted and recognised by bodies such as:
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)Department for Children Families and Schools (DfE)Children's Workforce Development Council World Health Organisation (WHO)Alcohol Education and Research Council (AERC)
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
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Family Centre
Original research was funded by the Home Office, Alcohol Education Research Council, Diageo
Following adaptation the DCSF (DfE) funded us to deliver the programme to FIPs across the UK
Subsequent funding has been from NAPP (PEIPs), multiple LAs, and the CWDC
We have trained over 1,600 practitioners UK wide. The programme is also running in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales (and we are involved with a larger European study)
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
SFP 10-14 (UK)
SFP 10-14 (UK) is a 7-week evidence based programme to help families with young people aged 10-14 to prepare for teenage years
SFP 10-14 (UK) has seven two hour sessions for parents and young people. Parents and youth meet separately for the first hour, then spend the second hour together in family activities.
Group size can range from about 8 to 13 families, for a total of 20 to 30 individuals
Three SFP10-14(UK) trained facilitators are required to facilitate the programme (+ helper support as appropriate)
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
SFP 10-14 (UK)
The SFP is a whole family approach that aims to:
Reduce alcohol and substance misuse and other behaviour problems during adolescence
This is achieved through improved skills in nurturing and child management by parents and improved interpersonal and personal competencies amongst young people
Objectives are to: Increase parenting
skills Build life skills in
young people Strengthen family
bonds
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SFP 10-14 (UK)
A substance misuse programme?
…by defocusing almost entirely from substance misuse to concentrate instead on the processes which sustain family life and promote healthy development
In the process, it recommends itself not just (or not even) primarily as a substance misuse programme, but as a generic approach of equal interest to mental health, crime prevention, education, child welfare and family services.
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
SFP 10-14 (UK)
The biopsychosocial vulnerability model, which suggests that the skills and resources possessed by families can ‘buffer’ other stresses (e.g. conflicts within the family)
And the ‘family process model’ which theorises that the impact of ‘economic stress’ on parents and its subsequent effects on mental health wellbeing, can have negative impacts on parenting, which in turn has implications for young people
Kumpfer’s and Richardson’s resiliency model, which is concerned with ‘protective processes’, and the nurturing of life skills in young people in areas such as managing emotions, planning and solving problems
Reducing risk and building protective factors
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
SFP 10-14 (UK)
Parent Sessions consisting of presentations, role-plays, group discussions, and other skill-building activities
Family Sessions that use specially designed games and projects to increase family bonding, build positive communication skills, and facilitate learning to solve problems together
How it Works:
Youth Sessions that engage each youth in small and large group discussions, learning games, group skill practice, and social bonding activities
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
Having dreams and goals for the future
In week 1 the young people think about their hopes and aspirations for future
In week 3 the young peoplelearn about stress, how it makes them feel and how they can manage it in ways that do not get them into trouble
In weeks 5+6 the young people use role play to practicesteps to keep them out of trouble. They think back to week 1 and considerthe goals and dreams they may notreach if they get into trouble with drugs and alcohol – or any other trouble, shoplifting etc.
The parent and family sessions are used to support and reinforcethe activities in the youth session
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STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
Discussing goals and dreams for the future
Simply playing and having fun
Learning to listen to one another Strengths based family trees
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
Studies showed that young people, who participated in the programme are significantly less likely to have problems with:
alcohol, substance use, aggressive and hostile behaviour, truancy, cheating, peer pressure
They also have improved school attendance and attainment
The difference between the two groups (SFP 10-14 group and control group) becomes more significant over the years, up to four years after the intervention
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STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
Lifetime alcohol use without parental permission:At the 8th grade, young people who attended the SFP10-14 showed a 49% relative reduction in alcohol use and at 10th grade, a 32% relative reduction in alcohol use compared to those in the control group (p<.01)
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
Lifetime Marijuana Use:Young people who attended the SFP10-14 were 53% less likely than those in the control group to use marijuana at a follow-up evaluation four years later.
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
Cigarette Use:Young people who attended the programme were approximately half as likely as those in the control group to smoke cigarettes at follow-up evaluations two years and four years later.
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES PROGRAMME 10-14 (UK)
All research publications are available on request: [email protected]
Please feel free to contact me at that address for any other information you would like
Key publications and more information can be found on the website: www.mystrongfamily.co.uk