Program Language: Haitian Creole

The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM) Small Group Model for Adults is an approach designed to heal psychological trauma, relieve stress, reduce symptoms of chronic illness, and increase resilience. Working in small groups of 8–10 people, facilitators teach a variety of self-care techniques drawn from the world’s healing traditions as well as modern medicine to help participants learn to move through emotions and experience their own capacity for self-healing. Trained facilitators guide the experience, helping participants discover their own answers.

MBF Teen Safety Matters® is designed to be a comprehensive, primary prevention education program based on polyvictimization research. It was developed by the Monique Burr Foundation for Children (MBF). The program is available to middle schools, high schools, and other organizations, such as child advocacy centers, to educate and empower students, school personnel, and parents with information and universal Safety Rules and strategies to prevent many types of victimization. The curriculum is designed to be practical and easy for schools to implement.

MBF Teen Safety Matters covers bullying, cyberbullying, four types of child abuse (physical, sexual, emotional and neglect), digital abuse, and other digital dangers, as well as relationship abuse, sexual assault, and sex trafficking in three 45-minute lessons (or 6 shorter lessons). The program also provides reinforcement materials and activities for students, parents, and schools.

The CEBC has also reviewed MBF Child Safety Matters® and it can be accessed here.

The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a 10- to 14-week parenting and family skills training program for high-risk and general population families. It is unique because the whole family attends and practice new relationship skills together in family groups. SFP is designed to significantly improve parenting skills and family relationships, reduce child maltreatment, children's problem behaviors, delinquency and alcohol and drug abuse; and to improve social competencies and school performance. The program is designed to work with many different ethnicities and races. In addition, it is available as a Home-use DVD for school, behavioral health, and family services to use alone or with case managers. It can also be given to families to view at home.

MBF Child Safety Matters® is designed to be a comprehensive, primary prevention education program based on polyvictimization research. It was developed by the Monique Burr Foundation for Children (MBF). The program is available to elementary schools and organizations partnering with elementary schools to educate and empower students, school personnel, and parents with information and universal Safety Rules and strategies to prevent many types of victimization. The curriculum is designed to be practical and easy for schools to implement.

MBF Child Safety Matters covers bullying, cyberbullying, four types of child abuse (physical, sexual, emotional and neglect), digital abuse, and other digital dangers in two classroom lessons ranging from 35-55 minutes (or in 4 shorter lessons). The program also provides reinforcement materials and activities for students, parents, and schools.

The CEBC has also reviewed MBF Teen Safety Matters® and it can be accessed here.

The Nurturing Parenting Program for Parents and their Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers is a family-centered program designed for the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Both parents and their children birth to five years participate in home-based, group-based, or combination group-based and home-based program models. Lessons are competency-based ensuring parental learning and mastery of skills.

The program lessons focus on remediating five parenting patterns known to form the basis of maltreatment:

• Having inappropriate developmental expectations of children
• Demonstrating a consistent lack of empathy towards meeting children's needs
• Expressing a strong belief in the use of corporal punishment and utilizing spanking as their principle means of discipline
• Reversing the role responsibilities of parents and children so that children learn to become the caregivers to their parents
• Oppressing the power and independence of children by demanding strict obedience to their commands

Built in assessments (pre, process, and post) allow the practitioner and the parents to track the acquisition of new knowledge, beliefs and skills.

The Nurturing Parenting Program for Parents and their School Age Children 5 to 11 Years is a 15-session program that is group-based, and family-centered. During group sessions, parents and their children attend separate groups that meet concurrently. Each session is scheduled for 2.5 hours with a 20-minute break in which parents and children get together and have fun.

The lessons in the program are based on the known parenting behaviors that contribute to child maltreatment:

• Inappropriate parental expectations
• Parental lack of empathy in meeting the needs of their children
• Strong belief in the use of corporal punishment
• Reversing parent-child family roles
• Oppressing children's power and independence

Assessment (pre, process, and post) of parent's parenting and child rearing beliefs, knowledge, and skills allows the program facilitators to measure the attainment of lesson competencies.

EMDR therapy is an 8-phase psychotherapy treatment that was originally designed to alleviate the symptoms of trauma. During the EMDR trauma processing phases, guided by standardized procedures, the client attends to emotionally disturbing material in brief sequential doses that include the client’s beliefs, emotions, and body sensations associated with the traumatic event while simultaneously focusing on an external stimulus. Therapist directed bilateral eye movements are the most commonly used external stimulus, but a variety of other stimuli including hand-tapping and audio bilateral stimulation are often used. EMDR is also highlighted on the CEBC website in the Trauma Treatment – Client-Level Interventions (Child & Adolescent) topic area, click here to go to that entry.

EMDR therapy is an 8-phase psychotherapy treatment that was originally designed to alleviate the symptoms of trauma. During the EMDR trauma processing phases, guided by standardized procedures, the client attends to emotionally disturbing material in brief sequential doses that include the client's beliefs, emotions, and body sensations associated with the traumatic event while simultaneously focusing on an external stimulus. Therapist directed bilateral eye movements are the most commonly used external stimulus, but a variety of other stimuli including hand-tapping and audio bilateral stimulation are often used. EMDR is also highlighted on the CEBC website in the Trauma Treatment (Adult) topic area, click here to go to that entry.