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Strong Families
The Strong Families Program engages families and students (between the ages of 10 and 14 years) and their parents for the pressures that are experience as they transition to middle and high school, growing into adolescents and young adults.
MEMBERS
COREY GRAHAM
PAULETTE PRECIADO
COREY GRAHAM
STRONG FAMILIES INSTRUCTOR
Corey is a graduate of Kutztown University with a Bachelors Degree in Secondary Education. He earned his Masters degree from Wilkes University in Instructional Media and Technology. He moved to Arizona from Pennsylvania, 14 years ago to start a career in education at Casa Grande Middle School as a 7th and 8th grade Social Studies teacher. A job he continues and loves even to this day. This will be then ninth year that Corey has helped to facilitate Strong Families for the CG Alliance
MARIA KING
PAULETTE PRECIADO
COREY GRAHAM
PROGRAM INSTRUCTOR
Maria is an Arizona native, born and raised in the Casa Grande area.
She graduated from Northern Arizona University with a Bachelors in Elementary Education and a Masters in Human Relations and Counseling. She has been in education for more than 15 years. In education, Maria has served in many roles such as a mentor, teacher, counselor, advisor, coach, and tutor for the Arizona Department of Education. She has a lot of experience with varying curriculums and age groups working in elementary, middle/high school, GED and Adult Basic Education. Maria and her husband (Chris) are both teachers and have 2 daughters. They enjoy giving back to the community and empowering youth through volunteering, service projects, and community events. Both Maria and her husband have been volunteers/Club Leaders through U of A Cooperative Extension and 4-H for 11 years. Her hobbies include gardening, baking, and travel when she isn’t enjoying the families Hobby Farm of goats, lambs, cattle, and
chickens.
PAULETTE PRECIADO
PAULETTE PRECIADO
PAULETTE PRECIADO
PROGRAM INSTRUCTOR
Paulette is a graduate of Arizona State University with a Bachelors Degree in Business Entrepreneurship. She earned her Associates' degree from Central Arizona College in Business Administration. She is an Arizona native from Casa Grande, attending middle school at Villago and high school at Vista Grande. If Paulette is not found at the gym dancing, she is home with her mom, nana, and dog, Lola, eating or watching a show.
What do families learn?
STRONG FAMILIES consists of seven interactive, video-based sessions conducted over consecutive weeks. The Program enhances parents’ general child management skills, parent-child affective relationships, and family communication. Based on a developmental model, SFP assumes that increasing the family’s protective processes while decreasing its potential risk factors can alter a child’s future, so that problem behaviors can be reduced or avoided. In addition, the program seeks to delay the onset of adolescent alcohol and substance use by improving family practices.
The STRONG FAMILIES program is designed to:
- Enhance parenting skills, empathy, and promote effective parenting styles.
- Build decision-making and life skills in youth, including stress management, conflict resolution, peer resistance, and empathy.
- Strengthen family bonds and promote positive communication and the ability to jointly solve problems.
Risk and Protective factors the program targets
Additional Information
Protective Factors
- Youth and family management practices, including monitoring, age-appropriate parental expectations, and consistent discipline
- Effective and empathetic parent-child communication
- Promotion of healthy beliefs and clear standards
- Family bonding and supportive family involvement
- Goal setting and positive future orientation
- Positive parent-child affect
- Emotional management
- Pro-social family values
- Peer pressure refusal skills
Risk Factors
- Child and family management practices, including harsh, inappropriate, or inconsistent discipline, indulgence, poor parental monitoring, demanding/rejecting behavior, and poor communication of rules
- Youth aggressive or withdrawn behavior
- Favorable attitudes toward problem behaviors and substance use
- Friends who engage in problem behaviors-Negative peer influences
- Poor social and stress management skills
- Family conflict
- Early initiation of problem behaviors
- Early and persistent antisocial behavior
- Poor school performance
Learn More
The next FREE Sessions begin on Tuesday October 27th & Thursday October 29th. 6pm - 8:30pm in Casa Grande.
Please call (520) 836-5022, or email cgafamilies@gmail.com
to RSVP or stop by the office to learn more.