Building Families

A new parent group will be starting in March in Humboldt. It will be held from 5:30-6:30 at the Taft Elementary Media Center. The parent group will be discussing Positive Behavior Supports. Below are the list of dates and what will be discussed at each group. Please Register with Amy Muller (515-832-1791 or amuller@hamiltoncountymhsb.org ) if you would like to attend or look for sign-up sheets at school!

Session 1: Making a Connection! Meet each other and learn about our families. Identify the importance of building positive relationships with children. Discuss the "power" of using positive comments and encouragement with children.

Session 2: Making it Happen! Understand how play can be a powerful parenting practice. Learn ways to help children develop friendship skills. Link building relationships, using positive comments/encouragement, and play to children’s behavior.

Session 3: Why do Children do What they do? Examine why children do what they do. Practice ways to determine the meaning of behavior. Understand how to make expectations clear for children. Understand effective ways to develop and teach household rules.

Session 4: Teach me What to Do. Identify feeling words and identify effective ways to teach feeling vocabulary. Demonstrate the use of books to support emotional literacy and social emotional development. Identify ways to cope with feelings of anger and disappointment. Learn how to teach problem solving skills.

Session: 5 Facing the Challenge: Part 1 Examine nine specific strategies that can be used to promote positive adult and child behavior in home and community settings.

Session 6: Facing the Challenge Part 2 Identify that problem behavior has meaning. Identify the meaning of behavior by examining what happens before and after the problem behavior. Identify the three parts of a behavior plan: preventions, new skills to teach, and new responses. Learn to use the Family Routine Guide to identify supports for use with children during daily routines.

When: May 3rd from 1pm to 4pm

What: A resource fair focusing on injury prevention

Where: Webster City Middle School

Purpose: To provide a safe family friendly activity for parents and children, let the community know of the resources available to them, and promote child injury prevention.

Who are the target population: Families with children aged 0-18

Who should participate: service providers, preschools, health providers, child care providers, faith, educators, community/civic groups at large

What will you do: Set up a resource table for your agency, hand out brochures, information about your services, or a toy or incentive; focus on one aspect of injury prevention for children; and provide an activity for children, youth or families to become engaged in.

Who is sponsoring this: Public Health, Power Up YOUth, ACE and Building Families are the initial planning committee.

What is planned so far: UDMO plans to give away booster car seats to the first 150 persons who drive up and request one, Building Families Child Care Nurse Consultant will focus on Nursery Safety and hand out a booklet, display crib safety, and hand out choke tubes, PUY will provide a speaker on "Just Say Know", giving the facts on how alcohol effects the body.

To participate in the Love Our Kids Day Celebration, contact Ann for the registration form.