Step-Up might help if…
- Parents report walking on eggshells to keep the peace
- Use of abusive or threatening language by youth toward parents
- Youth refuses to follow rules and resorts to abuse to get their way
- Pushing, hitting, kicking of family members by teen
- Throwing objects, damaging property to control parents
- Parents are fearful of teen
- Teen is running away
Learning to take responsibility for behavior by talking about it in check-in sets the foundation for youth to learn and practice new skills for changing their behavior and for parents to learn new skills to support their teen’s behavior change.
Through a series of skill building sessions parents and teens learn together and separately. The curriculum uses restorative processes, violence prevention tools, and cognitive behavioral strategies.
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Brought to you by the Sophia Center, in partnership with Sylvania Area Family Services and grant funded by Catholic Health Initiatives.
How Step-Up
Works
During the Check-In process at the beginning of every group, teens look at the Abuse/Disrespect Wheel and the Respect Wheel in their workbooks and identify behaviors that they used in the previous week. They also report on their progress on weekly goals and make a goal for the following week.
