Communities That Care

Posted on January 27, 2012

Why NOT to ask, “Is your homework done yet?”

This week’s blog entry is by our Executive Director, Dalene Dutton.  Here is an excerpt:

Although my three children are all adults now, I remember the nightly family rituals around homework well.  As a working mother, evenings were crammed with things needing to be done.  Usually, one of the tasks for my kids was school assignments.  The task for me was to be available to help if they needed it, which was not always easy. READ MORE

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Posted on January 24, 2012

Come Have Fun With Other Parents!

Yes, it IS a parent workshop…but it really is FUN!

Posted on January 19, 2012

Embracing the positive in prevention

This week’s blog entry is penned by Five Town CTC’s new staff member Alex Owre, who is a parent of two students who attend Appleton Village School.  Here is an excerpt from this week’s post:

“When my daughter came home from school last year asking me to sign her up for STAR, I confess I knew very little about the social-development theory behind the program. What I did know was that parents whose children had been in STAR tended to rave about it.” READ MORE

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Posted on January 13, 2012

This week’s blog by Adam K.

This week’s blog entry is penned by Five Town CTC Board member Adam Kohlstrom, who is also the pastor of Chestnut Street Baptist Church.  The faith community here has been an important part of the success of our efforts, and Adam has been active with the coalition and its efforts since we got started when he was a youth pastor.  Here is an excerpt from this week’s post:

“While the faith community seems increasingly comfortable with and competent in its support for those healing from substance abuse, how are we doing at prevention?  Prevention seems a far more elusive and insubstantial goal.  It is easier to grasp how we treat substance use problems than how it is we might prevent those same problems in the first place.” READ MORE

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Posted on January 5, 2012

Today’s blog entry

This week’s blog compares birthing classes (like Lamaze) to parenting workshops (like Guiding Good Choices).  Here is an excerpt:

Parenting workshops and classes for parents seem—to us—to fall in the same category as birthing classes.  They provide information about common problems encountered when raising children, provide an opportunity to share ideas with other parents, and provide coaches who model techniques that parents may find useful in given situations.  Taking a parenting workshop doesn’t imply that you can’t parent, any more than taking a Lamaze class implies that a woman couldn’t have a baby without it.  You can successfully parent a child through their adolescent years without taking a parenting workshop, but doing so has been shown to increase the likelihood that these years can be navigated with less conflict. READ MORE

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