| WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING |
| CARE
offers real solutions for real life. CARE offers a wide variety
of educational activities focused on building solid
relationships with others so that children and adults can learn
ways to solve their own unique challenges. |
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CARE’s WorkLife Solutions Seminars
(Click here for our current training flyer) |
| A critical component of a
productive workforce is continual professional development.
Ongoing seminar opportunities are capable of making significant
impact on the organization’s bottom line. CARE’s WorkLife
Solutions offers skill-building professional development
opportunities. Each workshop offers a variety of educational
content and interactive activities.
They can be customized to meet the organization’s needs.
Click here to register
on-line. |
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Family
Workshops |
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CARE offers a variety of informal workshops where parents come
together to discuss the joys, humor and sometimes struggles of
daily family life. The community plays a large role in offering
site locations. Additionally, CARE is able to individualize
workshops and trainings for specific sites, agencies and
workplaces. |
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Click here for a complete listing of workshop offerings and
descriptions |
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Youth Programs
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CARE has several programs designed to meet the
needs of youth today. From dealing with bullying and addiction
in the family to practicing coping skills for difficult times of
transitions, CARE’s programs empower youth to face these
challenges head-on. |
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Full service schools will receive a discount rate
on select Youth Programs. Check to see if your district has a
full service contract.
(click here) |
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A-Z guide of topics: |
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Addiction in the Family |
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Alternative Education |
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Anger/Violence |
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Bullying/Self-Esteem |
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Early
Childhood/Elementary Life Skills |
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High School |
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Middle School |
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People, Protecting
You, Protecting Me |
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School-Based Drug
Education/Life Skills |
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Substance Use |
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Teen Leadership and Community Activism |
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Community-based youth programs |
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Skills for Managing Anger Series for Adolescents |
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A six-week education series for youth
experiencing relationship difficulties because of their
inability to manage their anger. Focus is on personal power;
anger signals and hot buttons; self talk and strategies for
cooling off, as well as strategies for getting along. |
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This series will be offered to three groups of
students: Ages 9-11, 12-14 & 15-18 years old. Students must be
attending school. |
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A parent component is included and attendance is
necessary for youth to take part in the Skills for Managing
Anger Series. Is your school a full-service school?
(click
here) |
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Click here to register
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Parenting Teenagers along with the Managing Anger
Series |
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Join an eight-week facilitated discussion on
improving your relationship with your teen, ideas on encouraging
personal responsibility, self-respect, respectfulness, age
appropriate discipline, and methods to help your teen find their
way through the issues that they face. |
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Is your school a full-service school?
(click
here) |
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Click here to register
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Project FOCUS (Families Overcoming Challenges and
Understanding Strengths) |
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Project FOCUS is a FREE support program for
parents and youth ages 6-15 who are concerned about a family member’s use of
alcohol or other drugs or have a family member in recovery or
are in recovery themselves. FREE Childcare is available for
children ages 3-5. Parent participation is required. |
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Families will learn strategies to reduce their
anxiety, develop healthy coping skills, learn about addiction
and discover they are not alone with their concerns. This
monthly program is full of fun activities while using a
skill-building approach. Click here for current flyer (PDF)
or
for more information email
solutions@careofmacomb.com. |
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Click here to register
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Nicotine Narcs |
| The Nicotine Narcs (NN)
aren’t “narcing” on other kids for smoking. They are a group of
teens from Macomb County that meet throughout the school year to
organize ways to educate their fellow students and community
about the tactics the big-tobacco industry uses to get kids to
buy tobacco, “which is so not cool.” In the past few years,
they’ve held a press conference at Freedom Hill, protested at
AMC Forum 30 and held a NN Annual Conference. To be a Nicotine
Narc, contact CARE at
solutions@careofmacomb.com or visit
www.nicotinenarcs.org. |
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Click here
to see photos from our past Nicotine Narc event |
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T3 – Teens Talking Truth |
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Teens from the Macomb County participate in a
variety of services and planning activities. Together they
support and encourage one another to develop stronger leadership
and communication skills. They have the opportunity to attend
trainings specifically designed to meet the need of today’s
teens. This is a youth driven committee. As a collective group,
the teens will carry out a number of service opportunities
designed around alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention. To
join this group, contact CARE at
solutions@careofmacomb.com . |
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Teen Intervene |
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Teen Intervene is designed to provide education,
support and guidance for teens that have experienced mild to
moderate substance use. Teen Intervene also offers parents and
guardians the opportunity to learn healthy communication skills
and the importance of establishing family rules surrounding
substance use. |
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Is your school a full-service school?
(click
here) |
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Click here to register
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| Young
Women’s Lives |
You’ve seen the movie, you’ve read
the book. “MEAN GIRLS” is alive in young women’s lives today.
Young women face many societal challenges such as bullying,
sexual harassment and social pressures. For many youth, they
have dismissed their inner strengths and instead have turned to
destructive ways to cope with these challenges such as using
alcohol, or other drugs. This program empowers young women ages
14 - 17 to heal from the effects of violence, understand past
destructive decisions and learn new ways to address social
pressures and injustices, bullying, and sexual harassment.
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Click here
for more information or
Click here to register |
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Youth Support Summer Camp |
| CARE’s Youth Support
Camp is for youth ages 6-15 who are concerned about a family
member’s use of alcohol or other drugs or have a family member
in recovery. Children will learn tools to reduce their anxiety,
develop healthy coping skills, learn about addiction and
discover they are not alone with their concerns. The camp is
full of fun activities while using a skill-building approach.
Children should be available to attend all eight days for the
best experience. There is no program fee. |
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A FREE parent education/support group is also
available at the same time but is not mandatory. (Childcare is
available for children ages 3-5 for those parents who attend the
parent education/support group.) |
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Click here for current flyer (pdf)
or for more
information contact CARE at
solutions@careofmacomb.com. |
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Click here to register
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School based programs |
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Early
childhood & elementary |
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| Alcohol, Tobacco &
other Drugs presentations |
| Alcohol, tobacco &
other drugs presentations are available to schools, churches,
and other community organizations in southern Macomb County
(south of Hall Rd.) Presentations to adult groups focus on
current drug trends and mentoring drug-free youth. CARE’s public
information specialist offers presentations and series focused
on life skills and age-appropriate drug education to elementary
students. Presentations to middle-school and high-school
students focus on chemical awareness—current drugs & their
consequences; dynamics of addiction as well as chemical
dependency in the family. To schedule a presentation, email
solutions@careofmacomb.com. |
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| Paper People |
| Paper People is CARE’s Early
Childhood Life- Skills and Drug Prevention Program. |
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| “Kids who begin drinking before
the age of fifteen are four times more likely to develop alcohol
dependence than those who wait until age 21.”
(Source: The Anti-Drug.com) |
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The goal of Paper People is to
promote ways for children to be safe and healthy. Our
trained volunteer presenters deliver the Paper People
program in eight (8) thirty-minute sessions. Key messages
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- Caring about themselves and
others.
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- What helps their bodies grow
and work; what doesn’t.
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- Rules about medicine, alcohol
and tobacco.
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- Expressing their feelings in a
safe and kind way.
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- How and who to ask for help.
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| For program fees and to schedule
the series at your school/center, contact CARE at
solutions@careofmacomb.com . |
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| Protecting
You/Protecting Me |
| Protecting
You/Protecting Me is a series of eight lessons that is part of
the National Elementary School Project, MADD’s latest nationwide
effort to prevent alcohol use by youth. Research shows that the
risk for alcohol and other drug use skyrockets when children
enter sixth grade, between the ages of 12 and 13. To be
effective in preventing alcohol use by adolescents, we must
reach out and educate elementary school children. |
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| Targeted to third grade students,
Protecting You/Protecting Me teaches children how their brains
work and how certain behaviors and substances can place their
brains at risk. Students learn skills to protect themselves and
maintain good health. |
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| The program is free to schools in
Macomb County, Mich. For more information or to schedule a
series at your school, contact CARE at
solutions@careofmacomb.com . |
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| Transitions to
Middle-School |
| Students face a major increase in
exposure to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use when they enter
the middle school environment. Teachers have told us that they
believe many students are not as prepared as they could be to
deal with these pressures. |
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| The Transitions program is four
sessions in length, each session lasting an hour in length.
Students will learn about the destructive potential of the
“gateway drugs”: alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and inhalants.
Students will then learn and practice resistance skills to help
them deal with the pressure to experiment with drug use. Good
decision making skills will be emphasized. |
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| The program is free to schools in
Macomb County, Mich. |
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| For more information or to
schedule a series at your school, contact CARE at
solutions@careofmacomb.com. |
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| Middle school |
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| Alcohol, Tobacco &
other Drugs presentations |
| Alcohol, tobacco &
other drugs presentations are available to schools, churches,
and other community organizations in southern Macomb County
(south of Hall Rd.) Presentations to adult groups focus on
current drug trends and mentoring drug-free youth. CARE’s public
information specialist offers presentations and series focused
on life skills and age-appropriate drug education to elementary
students. Presentations to middle-school and high-school
students focus on chemical awareness—current drugs & their
consequences; dynamics of addiction as well as chemical
dependency in the family. To schedule a presentation, email
solutions@careofmacomb.com. |
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| Project Alert |
| Project ALERT is an Exemplary
Model program endorsed by the National Middle School Association
for middle school students (grades six, seven and eight).
Research has shown that this program dramatically reduces both
the initiation of drug use and the transition to regular use by
helping students recognize internal and external pressures and
providing motivation and skills to resist pressure. |
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| Project Alert is offered at no
cost and consists of 10 interactive sessions. Three booster
sessions are available for the following year. |
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| For more information or to
schedule a series at your school, contact CARE at
solutions@careofmacomb.com . |
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| Transitions to
High-School |
| Students face a major increase in
exposure to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use when they enter
the high school environment. Students are under pressure to make
decisions that will affect the rest of their lives. |
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| The Transitions program is four
sessions in length, each session lasting an hour in length.
Students will learn about the destructive potential of drug use,
with emphasis on the “gateway drugs”: tobacco, marijuana, and
inhalants and underage drinking. |
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| Good decision making skills will
be emphasized. We’ll learn and practice resistance skills to
help students deal with the pressure to experiment with drug use
or engage in other destructive behaviors. |
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| For more information or to
schedule a series at your school, contact CARE at
solutions@careofmacomb.com . |
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| High School |
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| Alcohol, Tobacco &
other Drugs presentations |
| Alcohol, tobacco &
other drugs presentations are available to schools, churches,
and other community organizations in southern Macomb County
(south of Hall Rd.) Presentations to adult groups focus on
current drug trends and mentoring drug-free youth. CARE’s public
information specialist offers presentations and series focused
on life skills and age-appropriate drug education to elementary
students. Presentations to middle-school and high-school
students focus on chemical awareness—current drugs & their
consequences; dynamics of addiction as well as chemical
dependency in the family. To schedule a presentation, email
solutions@careofmacomb.com. |
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Prenatal Alcohol & Drug Exposure presentations |
| Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders (FASD) is the leading cause of birth defects
in the US today and it is 100% preventable. CARE’s FASD
Prevention Specialist presents to high school and college
students, community groups, and professionals. CARE works with
a local coalition to help support parents raising an individual
with FASD. To schedule a presentation, email
solutions@careofmacomb.com. More information can be found
at
MCFARES. |
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| Life Skills |
| Nurturing Parenting series for
high school health and/or life skills students based on five
elements of basic parenting: appropriate expectations, empathy,
empowerment, family roles, and positive discipline. Substance
abuse education is also included in this series. |
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| Alternative Education |
| Alcohol, Tobacco &
other Drugs presentations |
| Alcohol, tobacco &
other drugs presentations are available to schools, churches,
and other community organizations in southern Macomb County
(south of Hall Rd.) Presentations to adult groups focus on
current drug trends and mentoring drug-free youth. CARE’s public
information specialist offers presentations and series focused
on life skills and age-appropriate drug education to elementary
students. Presentations to middle-school and high-school
students focus on chemical awareness—current drugs & their
consequences; dynamics of addiction as well as chemical
dependency in the family. To schedule a presentation, email
solutions@careofmacomb.com. |
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Prenatal Alcohol & Drug Exposure presentations |
| Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders (FASD) is the leading cause of birth defects
in the US today and it is 100% preventable. CARE’s FASD
Prevention Specialist presents to high school and college
students, community groups, and professionals. CARE works with
a local coalition to help support parents raising an individual
with FASD. To schedule a presentation, email
solutions@careofmacomb.com. More information can be found
at
MCFARES. |
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| Life Skills |
| Nurturing Parenting series for
high school health and/or life skills students based on five
elements of basic parenting: appropriate expectations, empathy,
empowerment, family roles, and positive discipline. Substance
abuse education is also included in this series. |
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| Teachers –
Student Diversity in the Classroom (download
flyer) |
| Author Anais Nin stated, “We
don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.” Cultural
awareness is a critical element in today’s educational
environment. When we value diversity, we are supporting and
respecting each person’s right to be who they are – a unique
individual. |
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| CARE’s WorkLife Solutions provides
you the resources needed to successfully create a safe, thriving
school for both staff and students. CARE’s Diversity in the
Classroom training is designed to discuss with staff the need
for increased cultural awareness based on the changing student
population. Schools in the tri-county area have been providing
this interactive training to their staff during in-services.
Click PDF for more info. |
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| Teaching and Leading
Children |
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A series targeted to early childhood
teachers/care-takers that focuses on effective communication and
problem solving as well as fostering positive relations with
parents. |
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Contact CARE at
solutions@careofmacomb.com or
click here
to register. |
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