While Healthy Futures is designed to reinforce messages that teens are already hearing at home, we recognize that for many parents sex can be a challenging topic to discuss. Parents often tell us that they feel unprepared to discuss sensitive topics with their teens. For this reason, we offer parent programs aimed at empowering parents to speak openly with their teens about sexual health issues.
Healthy Futures parent programs can include any or all of the following topics:. During this session, we discuss the cause and effect of these diseases and consider potential solutions. Enrolled parents and caregivers receive age-specific developmental assessment information, activity ideas, developmental newsletters, access to parent coaches, and additional community resources.
This information leads to knowledge that will reduce parental stress and build confidence. Nine months of preparation seems like plenty of time though right?
However, once the baby is home, life in your household changes quickly and can be overwhelming for parents. Our goal is to help parents to be at their best, so that their children grow up happy, healthy, and encouraged. RAVE is an interactive prevention education program geared to middle and high school youth. Families Facing the Future includes a homework component:. There are pre-implementation materials to measure organizational or provider readiness for Families Facing the Future as listed below:.
Members of the Families Facing the Future staff work with the treatment agency to ensure they are tracking the patients at intake and collecting information on children's ages. This information is used to evaluate whether or not the agency has the patient base necessary to launch the Families Facing the Future program. There is formal support available for implementation of Families Facing the Future as listed below:. On-site training is available. Consultation is available via phone and email to answer questions related to implementation and evaluation.
There are no fidelity measures for Families Facing the Future. There are no implementation guides or manuals for Families Facing the Future. Research has not been conducted on how to implement Families Facing the Future. Catalano, R. An experimental intervention with families of substance abusers: One-year follow-up of the focus on families project. Addiction, 94 2 , Parents were randomly assigned to receive standard methadone treatment plus the Families Facing the Future program, or standard methadone treatment alone.
Measures utilized include the parents and children were interviewed using questions designed for this study covering the topics of parent and child substance use, family interaction and conflict, parenting, and peers. In addition, random urine samples were collected for urinalysis. Parents also reported significantly less cocaine use. Limitations include lack of randomization , small sample size, lack of follow-up, and lack generalizability due to ethnic composition of the participants.
Gainey, R. Teaching parenting skills in a methadone treatment setting. Social Work Research, 31 3 , Summary: To include basic study design, measures, results, and notable limitations This analysis uses the same sample as Catalano et al.
The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of Focus on Families FOF [now known as Families Facing the Future ] program in increasing parenting skills knowledge.
Participants were randomly assigned to receive FOF or to a standard treatment only comparison group. Results indicate parents in the experimental condition were rated higher on parenting skills, with those who attended more sessions showing a stronger effect. Limitations include small sample size, generalizability to other populations due to ethnicity, and length of follow-up.
Haggerty, K. Addiction, 12 , Type of Study: Randomized controlled trial Number of Participants: This study examines the development of substance use disorders among children involved in the Focus on Families project currently called Families Facing the Future. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either standard methadone treatment services or the intervention, Focus on the Families, which is a parenting skills training and home-based case management program. Results indicate intervention and control participants did not differ significantly in risk of developing substance use disorders.
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