Guiding Good Choices

5 sessions, parents. grandparents. and caregivers learn how to promote healthy youth development and reduce risky behavior in the teen years. Guiding Good Choices® emphasizes strong family bonds as the key that motivates preteens to follow family guidelines and stay on a course toward better health and educational outcomes as teenagers.

Guiding Good Choices Program

Session 1: Getting Started: How to Promote Health and Wellbeing During the Teen Years

Parents learn about the nature and extent of problem behaviors among teens and decide for themselves how they want to prevent problems in their own families.

Session 2: Setting Guidelines: How to Develop Health Beliefs and Clear Standards

Parents develop clear family guidelines and expectations for behavior.

Session 3: Managing Conflict: How to Deal with Your Anger in a Positive Way

Parents learn to manage family conflict in a way that maintains and strengthens bonds with their children.

Session 4: Avoiding Trouble: How to Say No, Keep Your Friends, and Still Have Fun

Children and parents are invited to this session. They learn skills children can use for staying out of trouble and keeping their friends, while still having fun.

Session 5: Involving Everyone: How to Strengthen Family Bonds

Parents learn ways to strengthen family bonds and increase children’s involvement in their family through the teen years. Parents also learn how to create a parent support network.