CALIFORNIA HISPANIC COMMISION ON ALCOCHOL & DRUG ABUSE 5 - 2006

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, Core Course #3: Interpersonal Skills, Improvin Family Skills Course Objectives - After completing this session, each participant will be able to: define family and describe the historic role that the family has played In their culture; family as a source of socialization and acculturation, companionship, role modeling, genetic predisposition, social support system, and as a source of material and economic support Participants will be able to identify the patterns of social interaction that prevail In their family; specifiC enabling behavioral patterns that exist in their individual families; and list how future social interactions with individual families can be au mented, Course Activities - Counselors will invite speakers who cover a large body of research-based conceptual information about family and culture After the lecture, the forum will be subdivided into participants who are in the same Mentor/Mentee groups and their family members for the initial discussions These sessions will primarily involve reminiscence about happy family times, During the individualized family treatment sessions, critical family issues will be discussed, These will allow the counselor to create an emotional, yet fact-based, experience that assists the re-knitting process and leads to the ermanent ado tion of coo eration and accommodation within the famil unit. Core Course #4: Uncovering My History. Uncovering Myself: Heritage, Cultural Diversity and Conflict Resolution Course Description - This module is designed to begin uncovering the external forces that adversely affect the participants and to allow them to better understand the rocky road trod and the nature of the moccasins wom beach FUERZAS UNIDAS artici ant. Course Objectives - After completing this session, each participant will be able to: describe how their race/ethnicity affects their self-concept; outline how they feel others respond to them because of their ethnic heritage; list, discuss an summarize the lives of ten ethnic role models who overcame ethnic barriers and accomplished their life goals; and other social interactions with individual families can be au mented. Course Activities-It is important to use this session to allow the participants to articulatie their feelings because as they discuss their thoughts with the group, they wili gain insight into themselves and how they perceive themselves as fitting into the broader society. Activities include role-playing in which the outh switch ethnicit with others so that the can erceive themselves throu h others' e es. Core Course #5' Say,ng NO! Tn Gangs ~~\i0JrJ,n9 C';ang in\!olvemen! Course Description - For some of the youth in the program, the primary social support group may be a gang. This course is designed to support them in the process of extricating themselves from their an affiliations so that the can enter into the labor market. Course Objectives - After completing this session, each participant will be abie to: describe the history and growth of "gangs" within the United States; outline barriers encountered in separating themselves from their gang affiliations; identify other support needed to "Say NO to Gangs;" and assess the costs and benefits of continued affiliation with an s. Course Activities - Activities include a presentation by a member of the criminal justice system who has speciaiized expertise with gangs; a group discussion regarding problems associated with leaving gangs; individual counseling regarding gang affiiiations; and a strategizing session with the youth and their famil re ardin the issues covered" Core Course #6. Const!llct/llg a BehaviOlal Glllriancr System. Developing Needed Life Skills Course Description - This course is designed to introduce the participants to choice behavior and assist them in constructing their own behavioral guidance system (including decision-making regarding resistin com ulsion, remainin distant from friends and eers who continue criminal behavior, and 23