Strong Families

THRIVING FAMILIES
City Life Center supports families to aid in the develop of the five protective factors that help families to thrive.

Resilience: Intentional interactions that helps parents to build their resilience and their belief in themselves as parents and capable decision-makers
Social Connections: Helps parents to think critically about their social network and how they could utilize it more effectively, as well as the skills and tools they need to expand it. City Life Center provides the four social supports (emotional, informational, instrumental, & Spiritual).
Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development: Linking parents to parenting resources, providing child development information, and modeling and validating effective caregiving.
Concrete Support in Time of Need: Helping families to identify and overcome barriers they may have in accessing services to ensure that their concrete needs are met.
Cognitive, Social and Emotional Development of Children: Increase parents’ awareness of the importance of early relationships and of their role in nurturing their child’s cognitive, social-emotional development.

RESILIENT KIDS
City Life Center helps mitigate risk and enhance healthy development and well-being for youth by helping create:

Youth Resilience: Internal, adaptive traits that evolve from youths’ positive or adverse life experiences, and that enable youth to survive and thrive.
Social Connections: Physically and emotionally safe, stable and supportive environments; Healthy, supportive, caring relationships with family and other adults who provide positive advice; promote high expectations; and set developmentally appropriate limits, rules and monitoring; Healthy, supportive, caring relationships with peers and intimate partners; Opportunities for constructive engagement in family, school, community and social institutions.
Knowledge of Adolescent Development: Youth and adults have accurate information about youth biopsychosocial and cognitive development, including the impact of trauma; have accurate information about preventing negative outcomes for youth; recognize that all youth have strengths and capacities.
Concrete Support in Times of Need: Opportunities for additional skill building; crisis assistance; psychoeducational assistance.
Cognitive and Social-Emotional Competence: Youth engage in behaviors that promote healthy biopsychosocial and cognitive development.

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