East PoS families to benefit from parenting programme

Launched at the Murchison Brown Auditorium, City Hall this past Tuesday, the 15-week programme will see Families In Action (FIA) teaching 50 parents a variety of skills.

Chief Executive Officer of FIA, Dionne Guischard, told Newsday the skills training includes “how to manage conflict, how to manage stress as a parent, financial management; which is actually one of the greatest stressers, to communication with and listening to your children; another big aspect of our programme.” The PEP workshops will be held every Wednesday from 5 pm. Participating parents will be divided into two groups of 25 persons each.

There are still spaces left in the programme, so Guischard is advising interested persons to call FIA’s office at 622-6952 or 622-5365.

You can also email FIA at fia@familiesinaction.net FIA was contracted by the Citizen Security Programme (CSP) of the National Security Ministry to conduct the PEP.

Speaking with Newsday at the launch, CSP Community Action Officer, Natalie Gonsalves, said “during a community meeting in late 2015, residents told us about the top three things that they would like to do within their community, and a parenting programme was one of them.” Approval and funding for the PEP took “some time”; CSP received approval to start the programme “around August/September 2016”, hence the launch a little over one year after the initial survey.