• Meet each other and learn about our families.

• Discuss the purpose of the group.

• Discuss ground rules we might have for the group.

• Discuss the role families have in promoting their child's social development.

• Identify the importance of buildig positive relationships with children.

• Understand how playful interactions and creating fun in everyday moments can be a powerful practice.

• Link building relationships, using positive comments and encouragement, and play to children's behavior.

• Examine why children do what they do.

• Understand how to use positive language with children.

• Examine why children do what they do.

• Practice ways to determine the meaning of behavior.

• Understand effective says to develop and teach household and community rules.

• Discover the importance of routines and how to set them up for success.

• Introduction to the Family Resource Guide.

• Identify straregies for making transitions successful

• Plan for when routines go well.

• Understand why teaching  key interaction skills is needed.

• Identify the best time for teaching of interaction skills.

• Idenify felling words and identify effective ways to tach feeling vocabulary.

• Identify how the use of calming strategies can be used to cope with feelings and teach regulation skills.

• Learn how to teach problem-solving skills.

• Review powerful prevention strategies and learn two new prevention strategies.

• Learn specific strategies that can be used to respond with purpose to child behavior in home and community settings.

This session should only be done when appropriate.

• Identify the meaning of behavior by examining what happens before and after the problem behavior.

• Identify the three parts of a behavior plan: preventions, new skills to teach, and new responses.

• Learn to use the family Routine Guide to identify support for use with children during daily routines.