Ohio Department of Education Families

 

Topics:	Families, Safety, Health and Nutrition, High School (9-12), Middle (5-8), Rural, Suburban, Urban, Behavior and Discipline
Geography:  All    Special Needs:  None  Race:  None specified   Gender:  Both			Contact Name: Ted N. Strader Council on Prevention and Education: Substances, Inc Contact Email: tstrader@sprynet.com
CLFC is a structured curriculum for youth ages 9-17 and their parents, guardians and other family members to improve their ability to provide a nurturing environment for each other in an effective and meaningful way. Participating youth and parents are encouraged to improve their personal growth through increasing self-awareness, expression of feelings, interpersonal communication and self-disclosure. Participants are taught social skills, refusal skills and appropriate alcohol and drug knowledge and healthy beliefs, which provide a strong defense against environmental risk factors that can lead to negative outcomes for youth. The CLFC program also provides parents and other caring adults with family management, family enhancement and communications training. All participants are given opportunities to practice these skills in a safe peer-group setting. CLFC has demonstrated results in reducing alcohol, tobacco and other drug (ATOD) use, delaying onset of ATOD use, and reducing uncontrolled and violent behavior with youth. The program has been recognized as an effective science-based program by the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (2007), Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (2002), the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (1996), the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (2006), the U.S. Department of Education (2000), the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (2001) and the International Youth Foundation (2000). CLFC is an evidence-based practice rated by The Ohio State University Center for Learning Excellence Evidence-Based Program Database.
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