JT’S MENTOR ACADEMY FOR PARENTS
Parent Mentor Program
Mission Statement
We inspire parents to aspire to be great mentors for their children
Inspiring Youth
Inspiring Families
Inspiring Communities
The mission of JT’s Mentor Academy for Parents is to inspire parents to aspire to be great mentors for their children.
MENTORING YOUR CHILD COURSES
6 SESSIONS | 2 HOURS EACH
Parenting is probably one of the hardest jobs an adult will undertake, but probably also the one for which the least amount of training and preparation is provided. The Mentoring Your Child Parenting Courses are a series of clinics designed to equip parents with the knowledge, skills, and practice necessary to become wise and trusted guides for their children. The primary focus is on introducing practical parental strategies designed to teach and promote skills in our children. Our goal is not to fix problems, but provide children with skills needed to navigate through life. Each parent will decide what skills are important and works best for their family.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
Parenting is conceivably one of the most challenging assignments an adult will undertake, but indisputably also the one which the least amount of training and preparation is provided.
JT’s Mentor Academy for Parents is a high impact outcome-driven comprehensive program delivered with sensitivity and compassion. Our mentoring your child courses and seminars is an evidenced-based parenting prevention and intervention series. Our data-driven approach is designed to equip parents with the knowledge, skills, and practice necessary to become trusted guides for their children. The primary focus is on introducing practical parental strategies designed to teach and promote skills in children. Our goal is not to fix problems, but provide children with skills needed to successfully navigate through life. Each parent will decide what skills are important and works best for their family.
To provide practical strategies which will increase parents’ competence and confidence in guiding their children by parents’:
- Practicing a more authoritative parenting style.
- Mentoring their children by separating their identity from their children’s behavior and performance.
- Developing a plan to inspire their children throughout their upbringing.
- Implementing individual and family protective factors to limit their children from experiencing potential traumatic experiences.
- Developing an ethical approach to discipline.
- Identifying and promoting their children’s gifts and talents.
- Strengthening their relationship with their children.
- Strengthening their communication with their children.
To provide parent coaching strategies to promote the following skills in children:
- Health coaching to promote a healthy lifestyle and living
- Academic coaching to promote academic success
- Resourceful coaching to promote adaptability and creativity
- Financial literacy coaching to promote economic stability
- Independence coaching to promote autonomy
- Emotional coaching to promote emotional competence and self-regulation
- Individuality coaching to promote self-identity
- Social coaching to promote social competence and positive peer relationships
- Negotiation coaching to promote compromise
- Strong work ethic coaching to promote personal accountability and responsibility
- Resiliency coaching to promote self-efficacy
- Self-discipline coaching to promote healthy choices
- Intrinsic motivation coaching to promote internal validation and drive
- Career aspiration coaching to promote professional passion
- Guidance coaching to promote personal direction
MENTORING YOUR CHILD
5 CORE PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING
Parenting is probably one of the hardest jobs an adult will undertake, but probably also the one for which the least amount of training and preparation is provided. The Mentoring Your Child Parenting Courses are a series of clinics designed to equip parents with the knowledge, skills, and practice necessary to become wise and trusted guides for their children. The primary focus is on introducing practical parental strategies designed to teach and promote skills in our children. Our goal is not to fix problems, but provide children with skills needed to navigate through life. Each parent will decide what skills are important and works best for their family.
- CONTENT: What are the experts saying about the subject? What seeds did my parents sow about the subject and how did it impact my upbringing and current approach to parenting?
- CULTIVATION: What seeds will I preserve, uproot, and sow in my children? What strategies will I apply to cultivate (raise) my children?
- CONNECTION: What strategies will I apply to strengthen my relationship with my children?
- COMMUNICATION: What strategies will I apply to strengthen my communication with my children?
- COACHING: What skills do I want to promote in my children?
- MENTORING YOUR CHILD
- MENTORING YOUR TEEN
- MENTORING YOUR CHILD: SINGLE PARENTING
- MENTORING YOUR CHILD: FATHERS
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CO-PARENTING: BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD
FOR PARENTS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING CONFLICT THROUGH RAISING CHILDREN DURING THE TRANSITION OF SEPARATION OR DIVORCE
A comprehensive parenting intervention series for parents who are experiencing conflict through raising children during the transition of separation or divorce. The program involves six (2-hour) group sessions. Participants will be introduced to the four types of parenting styles and have an opportunity to examine where they fall on the spectrum while assessing whether their style is helping their child through the transition of separation or divorce. Also, participants will explore common unpleasant emotions and learn how to practice coping strategies to address and recover from them. Participants will learn how to meet deficiency needs and examine factors that contribute to ACE’s and explore individual, family, and community risk and protective factors. Participants will learn how parallel parenting is different from co-parenting and explore and effective ways to manage different parenting styles. Finally, participants will learn how to problem-solve and effectively negotiate, manage, and respond properly to child-related conflict.
WHO IS IT FOR?
(WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND SEPARATED OR DIVORCE PARENTS ENROLL IN SEPARATE CLASSES)
Co-parents interested in:
- Developing coping strategies to deal with and recover from common unpleasant emotions.
- Meeting the deficiency needs of their child during separation or divorce.
- Implementing data-driven solutions to prevent lifelong trauma.
- Establishing an effective parallel parenting plan.
- Establishing an effective co-parenting relationship.
- Learning effective ways to manage different parenting styles.
- Understanding how to problem solve and respond properly to child-related conflict.
We recommend parents commit to all six sessions.
MENTORING YOUR CHILD SEMINAR SERIES
The Mentoring Your Child Seminar Series are designed to provide participants with a preview of the content offered during our six session courses. We will provide participants with strategies and offer tools to develop the competence and confidence in guiding their children through challenges.
- SEMINAR 1
- SEMINAR 2
- SEMINAR 3
- SEMINAR 4
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SEMINAR 5
MENTORING YOUR CHILD
(FOR CO-PARENTS)
(90 minutes)
The Mentoring Your Child seminar for Co-Parents introduces the four types of parenting styles. We will explore common unpleasant emotions and practice coping strategies and identify ways to meet deficiency needs in children. Participants will examine factors that contribute to ACE and learn how parallel parenting differs from co-parenting and effective ways to manage different parenting styles. Finally, participants will learn how to problem-solve and respond properly to child-related conflict.