Changes Life Skills Groups

The Freedom4U Changes Groups will support and teach important life skills to teens and their parents. The Changes Groups uses evidenced-based material, peer mentors, healthy activities and service learning to guide teens and parents toward healthy coping skills.

The Changes Groups consists of:

Stress Reduction Skills:  

The Changes Groups will reduce stress and connect families together by improving communication, understanding, and relationships.

Parent Discussion Group:  

Evidenced-based information will support and guide parents toward improved teen parent relationships.

Teen Life Skills Discussion Group: This group will be led by a professional counselor with the assistance of peer mentors. The format is on an open topical discussion of issues teens face daily including; peers, feelings, relationships, and alternative activities. The group focuses on teaching resiliency to teens so that they can better manage their lives.   

Healthy Activities: The culture of youth has always been one of seeking fun, exciting experiences. Increasingly, teens are not involved in healthy fun activities. At the Changes Program, teens will have the option of being involved in planning, coordinating and participating in fun activities that are substance free. 

Service Learning:  Freedom4U has a service-learning network where teens have the option of directly participating in a specific cause. In this way, teens will learn to help someone in greater need then themselves or help a needy cause. There will be several service options available. 

Personal individual and family therapy options are also available.

Group Schedule:

The Changes Group is a weekly group for ten weeks. There are weekly separate parent and teen 90-minute groups.
Parent and/or teens may attend at any time. 

Cost:

Cost is $60 per week which covers both parent and teen weekly group.

Financial assistance is available.
Freedom4U is seeking donations to make the groups available to all families.
All donations are tax-deductible.

Changes Life Skills Discussion Groups Topics:

The groups uses evidenced-based material to support and teach important life skills to teens. The topics include:

• Relationships with friends

• Coping with stress

• Communication skills

• Dealing with difficult emotions

• The party scene and what to do about it

• Finding your passion

• Understanding your strengths

• Making a difference in your life 

• Having healthy fun

• Improving family relationships

  For More Info: email: greg@freedomcommunity.com or
  call: 310-897-5043

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