Youth and Adults Working Together for a
Safe and Healthy Community

Parenting Wisely Teens       

For details about the Fall 2009 program, click here.

This interactive, three-session program is designed to address some of the specific challenges in parenting teens and pre-teens. Realistic family scenarios are shown via DVD, giving parents the opportunity to explore various ways of dealing with difficult behavior and see how well each way is likely to work. Parents will also have an opportunity to practice specific strategies that address a variety of teen problems.

Topics include:
Helping around the house             
Solving conflict and helping students do better in school            
Speaking respectfully and obeying requests

Parenting Wisely has received the highest effectiveness ratings from the US Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the US Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

To see an online, video-based demo of some of the topics in the Teen program, click here.

Parenting Wisely Young Children

This three-session video or computer-based program helps pre-school parents deal with specific behavior problems in young children. Videos show the problems and parents can choose a possible solution and see how well it works.

Solutions are offered for:

• When children interrupt conversations and phone calls

• Helping children get to bed on time

• When children act up in public

• Helping children with schoolwork troubles

• Helping children solve conflict with their friends

• Helping children get up and ready to go in the morning

• How to control sibling fighting

Parents also learn skills such as active listening, assertive discipline, job compliance, setting consequences, redirecting attention, managing sibling rivalry, single parent issues, praising, time out, I-statements, family meetings, and problem solving steps.