Updates on Upcoming Events at Lemberg Children's Center (ACT-NE Regional Center):
Our next Facilitator Workshop (for those who want to be trained to do Parent Groups) will take place on Tues and Wed Nov. 3-4, from 8:30am to 4:30pm. Breakfast, Lunch, and ACT Kit Materials are included in the $140 registration fee.
If interested, please email: lemberg@brandeis.edu or call 781-736-2200.
A future date for a Facilitator Workshop after the on in November has been decided for Dec. 4-5 (Fri-Sat).
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Why Do You Think Parents Don't Complete RSK?
I know drop out is a problem for all parenting programs, and the current economic situation complicates things, but I would like to ask if you know why 5 people didn't complete the series. How many classes have most parents attended? When do they drop out?
My best regards.
Julia M. Silva | Director, Violence Prevention Office Public Interest Directorate
American Psychological Association
750 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242
Tel: (202) 336-5817 Fax: (202) 336-5723
email: jsilva@apa.org www.actagainstviolence.org
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Welcome to all ACT Facilitators
ACT northeast saw the light...we don't need separate blogs for each region! This blog is now for all ACT Parent Group Facilitators. Please share your ideas, your experiences, your questions, and the good bits of data you've read. Let's think and work together. Let's set a mission to find ways for parents to develop support groups that will keep positive parenting and violence prevention information alive in their homes and hearts for years. Start now with reading, postings and ADDING your thoughts!
Friday, July 24, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Hello from Western MA
Thanks Howie, Amanda, Karen & Sylvia for developing this Northeast ACT blog. What a great idea!
We are currently more than half-way through a Parents Raising Safe Kids group. We have 8 consistent participants, including two couples. The group meets weekly in an empty classroom here at the early childhood program. Childcare is held in a separate part of the room, with two paraprofessionals from our program. This is the first time we have held childcare in the same room and have actually found it to be beneficial. There are several very young children who are able to separate to play as long as parents are in sight, but wouldn't have separated if childcare was in a different room.
This has been a wonderful group. The parents have really bonded as a group and attendance has been excellent. They have been very receptive to the ACT materials.
Keep up the good word everyone, and I look forward to reading the blog regularly!
Mary Huth
Westfield Public Schools
Westfieldl, MA
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We are currently more than half-way through a Parents Raising Safe Kids group. We have 8 consistent participants, including two couples. The group meets weekly in an empty classroom here at the early childhood program. Childcare is held in a separate part of the room, with two paraprofessionals from our program. This is the first time we have held childcare in the same room and have actually found it to be beneficial. There are several very young children who are able to separate to play as long as parents are in sight, but wouldn't have separated if childcare was in a different room.
This has been a wonderful group. The parents have really bonded as a group and attendance has been excellent. They have been very receptive to the ACT materials.
Keep up the good word everyone, and I look forward to reading the blog regularly!
Mary Huth
Westfield Public Schools
Westfieldl, MA
I
Sunday, April 5, 2009
ACT training
Claudia and I trained 22 members of our community in the Parents Raising Safe Kids program on April 1 &2. The training went very well. There are definite plans for some of the attendees to take the program to their agencies and offer the series to their clients. The response was overwhelmingly positive.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Excellent
The blog is an awesome idea. For some reason your intro is repeated on the blog on the left and right of the screen. Other than that this is an awesome idea and maybe something we can offer the midwest group! Great work!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Culture and a Case
I'd like to ask you're thoughts on how to work with a parent who has some resistance. Here is a case :
A client of mine insists that her cultural way is to tell children what they should be doing. Not doing so might jeopardize her success in raising children who listen and are disciplined.
Several questions are raised. 1) Is this really a cultural communication and if so should it be accepted as necessary to maintain the heritage? 2) Does this excuse come from the difficulty in learning positive parenting skills which require more creativity and humor? 3) Would trying to have her identify with the child by asking her to think about her reactions to her parent when she was between five and eight facilitate her motivation to change her ways?
A client of mine insists that her cultural way is to tell children what they should be doing. Not doing so might jeopardize her success in raising children who listen and are disciplined.
Several questions are raised. 1) Is this really a cultural communication and if so should it be accepted as necessary to maintain the heritage? 2) Does this excuse come from the difficulty in learning positive parenting skills which require more creativity and humor? 3) Would trying to have her identify with the child by asking her to think about her reactions to her parent when she was between five and eight facilitate her motivation to change her ways?
Welcome
Dear ACT Northeast partners,
Welcome to act-ne.blogspot.com! You have been added to this blog as a writer. This means you can read all "blogs" that others have written, you can "comment" or respond/add to what others have written, and you can write your own "blog" in which you begin a new topic.
This will be our resource for communicating with one another. If you hold a workshop, this blog is a way of letting others know how it went, what worked, what didn't work, and any thoughts you might have. This blog is also a way of letting others know your plans for upcoming workshops or projects. Everything posted here is secure.
You will also find on the Lemberg Children's Center website, www.brandeis.edu/lemberg, a list of facilitators in the Northeast and their contact information, a list of helpful resources, a calender of events, and links to the ACT website.
Let the conversations begin.
Sincerely,
Howie, Amanda, Karen, and Sylvia
Welcome to act-ne.blogspot.com! You have been added to this blog as a writer. This means you can read all "blogs" that others have written, you can "comment" or respond/add to what others have written, and you can write your own "blog" in which you begin a new topic.
This will be our resource for communicating with one another. If you hold a workshop, this blog is a way of letting others know how it went, what worked, what didn't work, and any thoughts you might have. This blog is also a way of letting others know your plans for upcoming workshops or projects. Everything posted here is secure.
You will also find on the Lemberg Children's Center website, www.brandeis.edu/lemberg, a list of facilitators in the Northeast and their contact information, a list of helpful resources, a calender of events, and links to the ACT website.
Let the conversations begin.
Sincerely,
Howie, Amanda, Karen, and Sylvia
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