Family Workshops

Our workshops are designed for both the parents and the students. We feel it is very important that the parents and their daughters are learning the same tools, language, concepts and principles so they can apply them when they get back home. We want this learning to be lasting and for the families to be able to take it back to the home environment. You will see that the first and second workshop mimic each other so parent and daughter are receiving the same experience, same tools, same language and is truly a parallel learning process.

It is recommended that the parents register for the first workshop within 90 days of their daughter’s enrollment at CCA. The next offering for the parents is the parent 1 workshop. It is recommended that parents sign up for this workshop while their daughter is at the beginning stages of their third level in the program. The final offering is the parent 2 workshop and it is recommended that parents attend that while their daughter has almost completed level 3 or started her level 4 in the program, with the idea that this workshop prepares the families for the level 4 home visits and eventually for the transition home after graduation from CCA. Workshops for parents and students were developed to enhance self-esteem, take accountability for one's choices, promote integrity and trust, emphasize the importance of keeping agreements, improve communication skills, repair relationships, prepare for the transition home and bring hope back into the participants’ lives. Participants are immersed in a combination of educational and experiential activities which promote the opportunity to evaluate the negative results of past choices and begin making effective new ones.

Level 1 Workshop: (Parents/Students Separately) This is a three-day workshop emphasizing the power of beliefs, trust, importance of agreements, personality types, what is working and what is not working, accountability, choices, and building healthy, loving relationships. Participants gain a powerful feeling of pride and often see a new hope for the future and especially the reality of having a healthy functional family.

Level 2 Workshop: (Parents/Students Separately) This is a three day workshop that will introduce you to the Arbinger Institute materials; The Choice and The Choice in Peace Building. This material will guide you in looking at all of your relationships, your part in them, and empower you with tools moving forward to create healthy relationships. You will leave the workshop with a specific plan in the creation of healthy, trusting relationships. Parents and their children can learn all of the skills in the world, but if there is not a relationship established they will be very ineffective in applying those skills to the relationship. The workshops are designed to create a parallel learning process between parents and students as you go through the exact same material, learning the same language, which provides a powerful outcome when both parent and daughter come together again.

Level 3 Workshop: (Students Only) This is a three day workshop that is all about practice, practice, practice. We will be practicing conflict resolution, beginning to gain trust and where to start with how to gain trust back, creating a positive peer support group, and reviewing your family plan (rules, structure, consequences, rewards). Our experience has taught us that your success will depend upon the trust in the relationship and the people your daughter begins to surround herself with. Your child will be in attendance all three days to practice and implement the tools you have learned in the first workshop. l begin to be prepared for your home visits and eventually their return home.

Level 3 Workshop (Parents/Students together) This is a three day workshop that is all about practice, practice, practice. We will be practicing conflict resolution, beginning to gain trust and where to start with how to gain trust back, creating a positive peer support group, and reviewing your family plan (rules, structure, consequences, rewards). Our experience has taught us that your success will depend upon the trust in the relationship and the people your daughter begins to surround herself with. Your child will be in attendance all three days to practice and implement the tools you have learned in the first workshop. l begin to be prepared for your home visits and eventually their return home.