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Good Families

The workshop empowers Native people with the latest research on the historical reasons for Native peoples’ drinking/drug patterns, and how the forced relocation to residential schools has fractured and, for many, broken the transmission of aboriginal parenting skills.  [Fractured, but repairable.] 

Areas covered are: 

• Traditional child rearing – from the past to the new
• The impact of parental substance abuse on a child’s educability
• Skills for families to remove this “baggage”
• Native substance abuse and family break-ups – why so common and how to prevent
• Ways for parents to help their children improve self-image and achieve in school
• Teaching reading and vocabulary building at home

Investing in Good Families 

Troubled families are helped to become healthy and more directly involved in their children’s education. 

What you can expect from the families of workshop participants 

• A clear reduction in absenteeism
• Increased involvement in their children’s education and school work
• A rapid decrease in misbehaviors, and an increase in attendance by the participants’ children

During this 2½ day on-site parent training workshop, parents and families become educated about and equipped with techniques to improve their parenting skills. 

Parent Training – Native Ways can transform your school and community.  Imagine a calm, friendly, violence and drug-free community; a community of high academics and healthy families. 

P.S. This training has been designed specifically for and by Native people.  All presentations and teaching exercises are culturally respectful.