DARE to be You Bridge Program
PI - Jan Miller-Heyl
Colorado State University
The DARE to be You (DTBY) Family-School Bridge project targets the crucial transitional time when youth enter kindergarten and first grade. Parents, children, and teachers will participate together in a minimum of 11 weeks (20 hours) of Bridge workshops to (1) enhance the relationships between school and family, in a community context, to improve educational success and therefore reduce the potential for multiple problem behaviors and (2) enhance both family and classroom management skills, thereby improving environments to promote self-efficacy, self-management skills, improve family relationships, and developmental level of the child. These are intermediate resiliency factors linked with reducing use of tobacco, abuse of alcohol and other drugs, and violence. The project will be tested in two culturally diverse sites: rural Navajo communities in the southwest located in the Shiprock, New Mexico area, and a tri-ethnic community (White, Hispanic and Native American) in southwestern Colorado. In both of these sites, poor relationships and lack of trust between families and schools create barriers that have long term effects on the cognitive and emotional development of children.
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