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Creating Lasting Family Connections Program

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The Creating Lasting Family Connections® (CLFC) Program

Introduction

Creating Lasting Family Connections (CLFC) is a manualized, family focused program to increase parenting skills and family-relationship skills to build the resiliency of youths aged 9–17 years, to increase alcohol and drug knowledge and attitudes, to reduce the frequency of alcohol and other drug (AOD) use, and to increase family use of needed community services. CLFC is designed to be implemented through community systems such as mental health centers, churches, schools, recreation centers, and court-referred settings. There are three modules for parents and three separate modules for their children.

CLFC Program Modules for Adults

Raising Resilient Youth. Participants learn and practice effective communication skills with their families, friends, and coworkers, including listening to and validating others’ thoughts and feelings. Participants also enhance their ability to develop and implement...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Council on Prevention and Education: Substances (COPES), Louisville, KY, USA

    Ted N. Strader & Christopher Kokoski

  2. CLFC National Training Center, Resilient Futures Network, LLC, Louisville, KY, USA

    Ted N. Strader

  3. Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), Beltsville, MD, USA

    David Collins & Steven Shamblen

  4. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

    Patrick McKiernan

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  1. Ted N. Strader
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Correspondence to Ted N. Strader .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Jay L. Lebow

  2. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Anthony L. Chambers

  3. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Douglas C. Breunlin

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  1. Council for Relationships, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Heather Pederson

  2. Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL, USA

    Diana Semmelhack

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Strader, T.N., Kokoski, C., Collins, D., Shamblen, S., McKiernan, P. (2019). Creating Lasting Family Connections Program. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_365

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