The Student Support Services division of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports & Youth Affairs will be holding a workshop for parents entitled Parenting Solutions on Tuesday November 29, 2011 at the University of St. Martin from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 pm. and also on Thursday, December 1, 2011 at the Rupert I. Maynard Youth Community Center in St. Peters at the same time.
The workshop will examine problem behaviors that are universal to all families such as sibling rivalry, bedtime and morning routine, chores, fighting and children taking responsibility for their own school work.
According to Student Support Services Division (SSSD) officials, all children display challenging behaviors as they develop into young adults and parents have a huge influence on children becoming positive, self-sufficient, and contributing members of society. SSSD officials added that participants at this workshop will learn techniques that will help them to handle these problems as well as a model for using democracy in the home.
The facilitators for this event are Dr. Timothy Evans and Geri Carter, two of the leading innovators in Adlerian-based Classrooms, family therapy and encouragement training.
Dr. Evans received his doctorate from the University of Georgia, and is an approved supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He completed an American Psychological Association internship at the University of Delaware. He has worked in community corrections and in a narcotics treatment program; developed a family therapy program for an adolescent psychiatric unit; and has extensive training in marriage and family therapy. Dr. Evans was a college professor for over 20 years. He developed the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of South Florida.
Geri Carter received her Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling from the University of South Florida, and is licensed by the State of Florida. She has worked with adolescents and their families for the past 17 years as a Youth Minister and Mental Health Counselor. She was a
behavioral specialist in an alternative education program, S.M.A.R.T., at Sarasota Middle School. She is currently an educational trainer for the Alfred Adler Elementary School in St. Petersburg, Florida. She has written Parenting Today’s Teenager: A Guide to Fostering Democracy, Cooperation and Teamwork in
Your Home . Geri is a trained mediator (Design Your Own Divorce), and past President of the Florida Adlerian Society.
This workshop is open to the general public. USM Lecture Hall has a seating capacity of 200 persons and the Rupert I. Maynard Center has a seating capacity of 150. All parents are urged to come out and take advantage of this free workshop. For further information, please contact Ms. Denise Johnson at 542-3718 ext 127.