 Competency Training
The Strengthening
Families Program: For
Parents and Youth 10-14
Virginia K. Molgaard, Richard L. Spoth, and Cleve Redmond
Introduction
Background and History
Risk and Protective Factors Addressed
Content and Program Mechanics
Program Implementation
Scientific Evaluation
Replications
Summary and Conclusion
For Further Information
References
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Families are important sources of support and guidance for children. Because the welfare of children is often tied to the strength of their families, OJJDP is committed to helping parents help their children.
This Bulletin, one in OJJDP's Family Strengthening Series, features the Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14, a program designed to build stronger families and, in the process, reduce juvenile substance abuse and other delinquent acts. The Bulletin provides a history of the original Strengthening Families Program, from which today's program was developed.
The Bulletin details the specific risk and protective factors that are targeted in each of the program's sessions and summarizes the content, mechanics, and implementation of the program. It also describes the findings of the program's evaluation and its replication.
The Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 has proven effective in reducing adolescent substance abuse and other problem behaviors and in improving parenting skills and enhancing child-parent relations. This Bulletin serves as an important resource for educators, policymakers, researchers, and community organizations in their efforts to improve the outlook for children and families.
John J. Wilson
Acting Administrator
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Points of view or opinions expressed in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of OJJDP or the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office for Victims of Crime.
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Acknowledgments
The research reported in this Bulletin was supported by grant DA 070 29-01A1 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and by grant MH 49217-01A1 from the National Institute of Mental Health (R. Spoth, Principal Investigator). Development of the revised program materials was supported by gifts from Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.; Polk County Decategorization; State of Iowa Family Preservation Services and Support; and the Wellmark Foundation (V. Molgaard, Program Director). All grants and gifts were awarded to Project Family at the Institute for Social and Behavioral Research, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Virginia K. Molgaard, Ph.D., is Director of Prevention Program Development and Implementation at the Institute for Social and Behavioral Research at Iowa State University. She is first author of the Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14. She is also the State Family Life Specialist for the Cooperative Extension Service at Iowa State University, and she oversees parent education efforts by the Cooperative Extension Service in Iowa.
Richard L. Spoth, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist in Prevention at the Institute for Social and Behavior Research at Iowa State University. He also directs Project Family, an interrelated series of studies designed to assess needs for family-focused preventive interventions, factors influencing participation in these interventions, intervention efficacy, and strategies for dissemination. He recently received a MERIT Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a Project Family study.
Cleve Redmond, Ph.D., is an Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Social and Behavioral Research at Iowa State University. He is currently a coinvestigator on two large-scale longitudinal efficacy studies of interventions designed to prevent substance use and other problem behaviors among rural adolescents.
All photos courtesy of Dr. Molgaard.
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