Family Program
Focus on Family System & Transition

The final step of the program includes a three-day workshop in which parent and child come together to begin establishing grounds for future communication.

Empowered students demonstrate their newfound attitudes, beliefs, and skills while modeling self-reliance, maturity, and honest communication to those most important in their lives, their parents.

Following a one-day parenting seminar with a SUWS therapist, parents join their child in the field for a one-night camping experience. Students and parents participate in activities to promote the building of trust, intimacy, and appropriate boundaries. Under the supervision of a trained counselor, participants learn effective models of communication which serve to encourage respect, empathy, and cooperation.

Additionally, participants have the opportunity to address, and potentially resolve, conflicts responsible for their feelings of resentment and hurt, and to begin the healing process.

Families come together in a manner which facilitates mutual respect, individual affirmation, and provides for a stronger, more satisfying parent-child relationship.