Products produced by COPES are now available from Resilient Futures Network.
Capping over two decades of successful experience in prevention, COPES recently 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).
Institutions and organizations interested in promoting healthy youth and healthy
families, in reducing inappropriate, violent, uncontrolled, unhealthy behaviors
and in limiting the negative impact of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs while
enhancing the skills of independence for youth and families will be well served
by adopting The Creating Lasting Family Connections Program curricula. 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. By attending
the optional CLFC training, an individual can gain knowledge, awareness and
confidence in his/her skills as a facilitator for any of the training modules.
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The COPES CLFC program is featured in a new book published by Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers. 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. Get your copies today |
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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 and, personal responsibility, and respect for others; and impart knowledge and understanding about the use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. Get your copies today |
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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. Get your copies today or for more information, click here. |
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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. Get your copies today or for more information, click here. |
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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. Get your copies today |
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Getting Real Training Kits (Available for both Adults and Youth. Each set includes manuals, a poster set and set of 25 participant notebooks) Getting Real is a training offering interactive instruction to adults and youths separately and both combined. Content includes a focus on refusal skills; verbal and non-verbal communication; effective communication and negotiation; effective listening; communication within the family unit; establishing and maintaining healthy interpersonal relationships. Get your copies today or for more information, click here. |
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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. Get your copies today |
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Developing Independence and Responsibility Training Kits (Includes manual, poster set and 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, appropriate behaviors and set consequences for others. Exercises have proven to increase self esteem, empathy, understanding, self-respect and respect for parents and other authority figures. Get your copies today or for more information, click here. |
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Developing Independence and Responsibility Participant Notebook (Replacement
Set of 25). This workbook contains articles, excercises, activities and
illustrations that support a young person's desire to learn how to succeed
in gaining greater freedom through personal responsibility. Get your copies today |
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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. Get your copies today or for more information, click here. |
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Developing a Positive Response Participant Notebook (Replacement Set
of 25). This workbook contains articles, activities, excercises and illustrations
that support healthy alcohol, tobacco and other drug use decisions. Get your copies today |
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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
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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)
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CLFC Implementation Training Description
Training is recommended for those interested in providing any of the Creating Lasting Family Connections (CLFC) program modules for youth and/or parents. Training from the developer, Ted N. Strader and his team of certified CLFC Master Trainers is available through Resilient Futures Network in a variety of formats. 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. 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, can be provided in as few as 5 days. For more information on training, click here.
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 call Resilient Futures Network at (502) 897-1111.
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