Strength Training consists of 10 weekly sessions that have been organized into 3 Sections:
Section 1: Where You Have Been:
Damage Assessment
How big is the mess?
Week 1-Dealing with the Feelings
Week 2-Shifting your Focus
Week 3-Reflecting on Your Father
Section 2:Who You Are:
Strength Assessment
What are your assets?
Week 4-Identifying the Roles of a Man
Week 5-Valuing your Role as a Father
Week 6-Uniting the Roles
Section 3:Where You Are Going:
Planning & Implementation
What path will you set?
Week 7-Creating a Plan
Week 8-Building a Stronger Kid
Week 9-Leaving your imprint
Week 10-Putting the Plan into Action
Curriculum Format
Each 2-hour Strength Training session contains the following elements:
Goals: What facilitators are trying to accomplish with participants
Behavioral Objectives: Specific knowledge, attitudes, and skills that participants should be able to demonstrate that they have gained by the end of the session
Key Points: Critical messages to be communicated to participants during the session
Focal Point: Background information and rationale for the session
Set Up: A comprehensive list of materials needed for the session
Agenda: Identifies the order of activities, approximate times needed to conduct them, and specific supplies needed for each activity .
Detailed Agenda: Detailed instructions for each activity in the session. For each activity, we give planning/set up information (things to think about or do prior to the session); supplies needed; and specific procedures for carrying out the activity.
Handouts: Many of the activities require that handouts be given to participants during the session. In most cases, the handouts are worksheets or questionnaires to be completed during the activity. In other cases, handouts contain resource information that participants can take with them and refer back to later. Each session begins with a handout called a Starter Sheet and ends with a handout called Evaluation/Action Plan.
Values and Premises
The Strength Training program is based on the following values and premises:
Children need both their mothers and their fathers.
Participants care about their children and want to be the best dads they
can be—they are not bad dads.
It’s never too late to develop a relationship with your children.
Mothers and fathers parent distinctly and both styles are valuable to
children.
Fathers can only control themselves and not the mother of their child.
Fathers need to work in partnership with their child’s mother to benefit their children.
While it is normal and understandable for dads on probation for
nonpayment of child support to be frustrated and angry, it is never acceptable to permit that anger to escalate to violence in any form.
In healthy relationships neither partner tries to control or dominate the other.
““This class has given me a mask for my face so that I only see my children now. I do not wish to argue with their mother anymore. I only want to support my kids.”
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The Strength Training Curriculum and Coaching Package Includes:
One Printed Curriculum Notebook
Includes all of the manual instructions and blackline master for forms and handouts
One ONLINE PDF VERSION of THE Curriculum
Print each lesson and handouts as needed. Make notes and archive insights
ELEVEN ONLINE COACHING SESSIONS
(phone or video)
Starting and Recruiting for your first set of classes
Prepare for the start of your class
Review each recent session and prepare for the one coming up next
ALL OF THE MATERIAL YOU NEED WITH NO WORKBOOKS TO BUY-EVER!