Pastoral Care - Power of Prevention

Pastoral Care - Power of Prevention

10 Hours
Area: 10 hours Addiction
Foundations: 10 hours Professional Readiness (FPR)

Most of us agree that the family is primarily responsible for ensuring the safety of children and for providing the nurturing and guidance children need.  Because of the increase of intense family stressors over the past few decades, the family’s ability to nurture healthy children has greatly diminished. Unfortunately, many family pastors and youth ministers/workers lack the knowledge and skills to shepherd their families in their inevitable encounters with substance abuse and addiction, either within or outside their family. The likelihood has increased that our youth will turn to substance abuse even during elementary school years.  It is for this reason this course will focus on Family-Centered Approaches to prevention.  Students will learn the factors and stressors on families that cause children to be at risk, as well as understand how to promote positive protective factors. This course presents three main Family-Centered Approaches along with the evidence that supports them and helpful information on program development and delivery.

Textbook: Content materials included with the Study Guide. No Textbook.