Wellness Weekend

Increasing the responsiveness of parents towards their children increases family bonding and helps to decrease child abuse and neglect. Increasing parental responsiveness is the goal of the Wellness Weekend Program.

Parental responsiveness is a parent's ability to meet the social and emotional needs of their children by applying knowledge of child development and using effective parenting skills. Parental responsiveness includes being supportive, affectionate, playful, responding to the needs of your children, and using consistent and effective approaches to discipline.

Wellness Weekend is a weekend retreat for parents designed to build positive social support and enhance positive and effective parenting strategies by increasing parent's responsiveness to children. A partnership of professionals and trained parents implement the program. Parent participants receive additional education and support following the weekend though follow-up training sessions and home visits.

The goals of Wellness Weekend are to:

• Increase the awareness and use of parental support systems
  
  
• Increase the use of effective parenting skills by increasing knowledge and changing parenting behaviors
  
  
• Increase the use of community resources and support systems

Prevention Programs | Wellness Weekend Outcomes