Healthy Marriages Grand Rapids

Family Wellness is a four-day, 36 hour training workshop that provides certification for facilitators to assist families in today's society.  It is designed for educators, ministers, mental health professionals, social workers, employee assistance workers, therapists, and others interested in assisting families.   

By completing this training, you will certified to teach “Survival Skills Healthy Families,” a 12-hour Family Wellness program presented to large groups of families and individuals in a series of six, two-hour sessions. “Survival Skills for Healthy Families” is a quickly learned and easily adapted program which has proven effective in a variety of communities, cultures, and languages. Over 1,500 trained facilitators have presented this course to more than 400,000 families world-wide in the past eighteen years. It is a proven model for teaching skills, enhancing healthy family interactions, and investing family members in each other and their community. Put tools in the hands of families. You will be able to work with groups of individuals and families and give them the skills, support, and practice to build on their existing healthy patterns and add new ways of living and working together. The course, which was developed in 1980, represents two interests: the need for new tools and supports to handle the challenges in our present society, and to utilize these tools in a readily available and effective program for families of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. A strength-based workshop, each of the six sessions is organized around practical guidelines for healthy family interactions, which are demonstrated and then practiced with the participants.

The sessions include:

• Parents in Healthy Families
• Children in Healthy Families
• Adults Working Together in Families: Adult Relationships
• As Children Grow - Change in Healthy Families
• Solving Family Problems
• Sex, Drugs, and You - Passing on Your Values to Your Children