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Summary of CLFC Products

Capping over two decades of successful experience in prevention, COPES published training manuals based on its award-winning and scientifically validated program for youth and their parents titled The Creating Lasting Family Connections Program. This program, authored by Ted N. Strader, Tim Noe, and Warrenetta Crawford Mann, includes three training modules for youths and three training modules for parents.

The Creating Lasting Family Connections Program was designed to be presented sequentially and concurrently in separate trainings for youths and their parents. Each module, however, also works effectively as a stand-alone training. While the content and emphasis of each module vary, the following themes are repeated for the sake of emphasis: the importance of self-worth and taking control of one's life; the importance of good communications in building healthy relationships (e.g., listening, empathy, negotiation, and cooperation); and the importance of personal responsibility (e.g. choice, cause and effect, limits, and consequences).

Who should order the CLFC materials?

Institutions and organizations interested in promoting healthy youth, healthy fatherhood and motherhood, healthy marriages and healthy families, in:

  • • Reducing substance abuse
  • • Reducing violence
  • • Reducing HIV transmission
  • • Reducing prison recidivism
  • • Reducing inappropriate, uncontrolled, unhealthy behaviors
  • • Enhancing family strengthening skills
  • • Enhancing recovery skills
  • • Enhancing communication and refusal skills
  • • Enhancing emotional awareness and expression skills

We highly recommend trainers attend the CLFC Implementation Training to gain knowledge, awareness and confidence in his/her skills as a facilitator for any of the training modules.

Even more benefits of the CLFC manuals

  • • The program manuals are user friendly.
  • • One need not have a formal background in alcohol and drug prevention, psychology, counseling, or social work to put them into effective use.
  • • All manuals offer clear, step-by-step instruction in the presentation of material to assure successful outcomes.
Product Description

The COPES CLFC program is featured in Ted Strader’s book published by Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, 2000. This book provides a clear description of a comprehensive and multi-faceted youth substance abuse prevention program based on a demonstration program that has successfully achieved desired AOD outcomes in a variety of urban, suburban, and rural settings, to examine the larger issues of how to promote healthy, happy and productive youth through such programs.

The larger purpose of this book deals with examining the general principles that COPES has come to embrace, as well as the specific programmatic elements which it has developed that embody these principles.

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The complete “Creating Lasting Family Connections” Program Package (includes all 6 training manuals, a set of 150 participant notebooks (25 for each module), 6 trainings, and 6 poster sets)

Creating Lasting Family Connections is a program designed for parents and youth which offers training modules for both audiences. The program is designed to: improve communication and conflict resolution skills; build coping mechanisms to resist negative social influences; practice effective refusal skills for both parents and youth; engender self-knowledge, personal responsibility, and respect for others; and impart knowledge and understanding about the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.

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  All six of the individual CLFC Training Kits listed below are also available as stand-alone programs for both youth and adult audiences. Each adult and/or youth module can be completed in six sessions or less.
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“Developing Positive Parental Influences” Training Kit (Includes manual, poster set and set of 25 participant notebooks)

Developing Positive Parental Influences is a training that offers interactive instruction to adults. Content includes: substance abuse and family dynamics; using personal, genetic, social and lifestyle risk factors to create a personal family prevention plan; and examination of intervention, referral and treatment models; and setting clear family standards for parents and children.

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Developing Positive Parental Influences Participant Notebook (Replacement Set of 25). A 44-page participant workbook containing articles and illustrations.

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“Raising Resilient Youth” Training Kit (Includes manual, poster set and set of 25 participant notebooks)

Raising Resilient Youth is a training offering interactive instruction to adults. Content includes: knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding family management practices; communicating effective expectations; growth needs of children; managing thoughts and feelings; giving and receiving feedback; and assisting youth in making healthy choices.

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Raising Resilient Youth Participant Notebook (Replacement Set of 25). A 43-page workbook containing exercises, articles and issues on effective family life, with an emphasis on assisting parents with effective family management.

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Getting Real Training Kits (Available for both adults and youth. Each set includes manuals, a poster set and a set of 25 participant notebooks)

Getting Real is a training offering interactive instruction to adults and youths separately and combined. Content includes a focus on refusal skills; verbal and non-verbal communication; effective communication and negotiation; effective listening; communication within the family unit; and establishing and maintaining healthy interpersonal relationships.

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Getting Real Training Participant Notebook (Replacement Set of 25) A 23-page guide containing refusal skills content and illustrations on body language.

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Developing Independence and Responsibility Training Kits (Includes manual, poster set and a set of 25 participant notebooks)

Developing Independence and Responsibility is a training guide offering interactive instructions to youth. Content includes: the dynamics of independence and responsibility and the importance of open and honest communication. Through role playing exercises, youth visualize themselves as growing successfully into positions of authority where they must define expectations and appropriate behaviors, and set consequences for others. Exercises in this manual have proven to increase self esteem, empathy, understanding, self-respect, and respect for parents and other authority figures.

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Developing Independence and Responsibility Participant Notebook (Replacement Set of 25). This workbook contains articles, exercises, activities and illustrations that support a young person's desire to learn how to succeed in gaining greater freedom through personal responsibility.

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Developing a Positive Response Training Kit (Includes Trainer Manual, poster set and set of 25 participant notebooks)

Developing a Positive Response is a training offering interactive instruction to youth. Content includes: knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about tobacco, alcohol and drugs (including marijuana); values clarification; making healthy choices; and resisting negative social pressures.

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Developing a Positive Response Participant Notebook (Replacement Set of 25). This workbook contains articles, activities, exercises and illustrations that support healthy alcohol, tobacco and other drug use decisions.

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There are two different types of evaluation kits available for use with the CLFC program. One is a sophisticated pre-post test design and includes Construct Definitions, Psychometric Properties, Analysis Guide and etc. The second one is a user-friendly Retrospective Survey Design which is post test only.

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Community Mobilization Manual

This training offers potential CLFC implementers a step-by-step guide for implementing the 5-stage CLFC community mobilization strategy. (NOTE: Provided free to participants of CLFC Implementation training)

Here’s some of what you will learn:

  • • An innovative approach to recruitment that can work in any community
  • • The little known dangers of marketing your program to different subsections of the community – don’t do another marketing campaign until you know this information!
  • • How to tap into natural “clusters” of people for recruitment and never worry about lack of participants again

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CLFC Implementation Training Description

  • • Personalized training from the developer, Ted N. Strader, and his team of certified CLFC Master Trainers
  • • Customized, in-person training to implement CLFC with fidelity and effectiveness
  • • Recommend for anyone interested in providing any of the Creating Lasting Family Connections (CLFC) program modules for youth and/or parents.
  • • Training in the use of any individual module, or any of the parent and youth companion pairs of modules can be provided in a 2 to 3 day seminar.
  • • Training in the implementation of the complete Creating Lasting Family Connections Curriculum Set, which involves all three pairs of modules listed below, plus a special CLFC Community Mobilization Strategy, can be provided in as few as 5 days.

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The modules for parent and youth are paired as follows:

1) Developing Positive Parental Influences (for parents) is paired with Developing a Positive Response (for youth)



2) Raising Resilient Youth (for parents) is paired with Developing Independence and Responsibility (for youth




3) Getting Real (for parents) is paired with Getting Real (for Youth)



Training in the implementation of the complete Creating Lasting Family Connections Curriculum Set, which involves all three pairs listed above, plus a special CLFC Community Mobilization Strategy, is highly recommended.

These trainings are being provided regionally, and may be provided on-site. For more information:

Call the developer, Ted N. Strader, at COPES, (502) 583-6820.

Or,

Email tstrader@sprynet.com.