Parents PEACE Program

lighthouse icon The Parents PEACE Program

began in 2005 as an adjunct to the Youth Peer Program. It is EPIC’s goal to provide an educational and supportive program for parents who wish to improve the relationship they have with their child.
PEACE stands for:
Practicing Esteem-building, Awareness, Communication and Evaluation

I look forward to group. They really help a lot. I will be lost over the summer.

Every Monday night, parents meet in the Youth Peer facility with Peggy Vassallo, the facilitator for the program. Issues of parenting are discussed. The parents are frequently joined by Management Team partners and other community agency representatives who speak on issues that can directly impact parent-child relationships. The nights when speakers are not present, Peggy focusses the sessions on specific parenting issues that the participants are dealing with or have requested.

One of the features that makes this parenting program uniquely helpful is that it is offered continuously throughout the school year. Parents may begin at any time and are welcome to participate as long as they like. There is no charge for this service.

Peggy and the parents have as a tool for tackling real-life parenting issues, The Parents PEACE Framework developed by EPIC (see below).

A Selection of Topics presented to the group:

I felt these sessions really help with all different situations. Even just to be able to talk an see you are not the only one out there experiencing difficulty.

Anger Management for Teens,
Bonnie Nicholson, Transition House
Sexuality,
Cathy Penny, Cape Breton Centre for Sexual Health
Sibling Rivalry,
Nicole Aboud-Ellis, Family Place
Consequences and Choices,
Michelle MacLean, CAS
Eating Disorders,
Janice Smith, Cape Breton Regional Hospital
Bullying,
Graham Smith, Cape Breton Regional Police Services
Relaxation Techniques,
Anju Virick, Tapestry Yoga Institute
Talking to Your Kids about Drugs & Alcohol,
Diane MacDonald, Addiction Services
Internet Safety,
Wayne Pendergast, Cape Breton Regional Police

lighthouse icon Sessions are held on Mondays from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at:
Southside Learning Centre
266 Whitney Avenue
Sydney, Nova Scotia
B1P 5A6
Canada
ypp@ns.sympatico.ca

telephone: 902 539-8228
fax: 902 539-7407

lighthouse iconThe Parents PEACE Framework


This framework—which puts the “P.E.A.C.E” in Parents PEACE—is designed to give a parent ready, easy-to-understand and remember tools for dealing with all kinds of parenting situations.

Practicing

    No parent has all the answers
    Practicing
    E    steem-building,
    Awareness,
    Communication, and
    Evaluation builds confidence, hope, and gradual improvements.

Esteem-building

    Treat yourself and your child as human beings worthy of dignity and respect at all times. Forgive yourself and your child when expectations are not met.

Awareness

“S.I.T.”

    Stop the action
    Identify your part in the situation, actions and emotions
    Think about how everyone’s behaviors and emotions mix to bring about conflict or resolution

Communication

    Taking the time arrowarrowarrow
    Talking and listening arrowarrowarrow
    Two-way interaction builds arrowarrowarrow
    Trust which leads to a parent’s ability to arrowarrowarrow
    Teach which is another word for Discipline arrowarrowarrow
    Remember: arrowarrowarrow Good communication is a loop. Keep it going. arrowarrowarrow

Evaluation

    Do I feel good about myself?
    Do I understand my child better?
    Do I feel better understood by my child?
    Do my actions allow my child to have hope?
    Do my actions help me feel closer to my child?

Remember: there are no quick fixes to complex problems.
It is all about Practicing. Take some slow deep breaths and begin again with renewed confidence and hope.



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