Program Goals

Guiding Good Choices (GGC) promotes healthy, protective parent–child interactions and addresses children’s risk for early substance use.

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The program is for families of children in grades 4–8 (ages 9–14).

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Program Activities

GGC is a multimedia family-competency training program. The program is delivered in five weekly sessions specifically designed to strengthen parents’ family management skills, parent–child bonding, and children’s peer-resistance skills. Children are required to attend one session, which concentrates on peer pressure. The other four sessions involve only parents and include instruction in four areas:

• Identifying risk factors for adolescent substance use and creating strategies to enhance the family’s protective processes

• Developing effective parenting skills, particularly those regarding substance use issues

• Managing anger and family conflict

• Providing opportunities for positive child involvement in family activities

 

To learn more contact:

Caroline Brackmann at 719-530-2535, cbrackmann@chaffeecounty.org