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Apart Not Broken Committed to Happy & Healthy Families, Regardless of Family Structure Learn, Connect, & Create! A FREE, online, multi-media program designed to help dads adjust and parent after divorce or separation

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Page 1: Apart Not Broken Committed to Happy & Healthy Families, Regardless of Family Structure Learn, Connect, & Create! A FREE, online, multi-media program designed

Apart Not Broken

Committed to Happy & Healthy Families, Regardless of Family Structure

Learn, Connect, & Create!

A FREE, online, multi-media program designed to help dads adjust and parent after divorce or separation

Page 2: Apart Not Broken Committed to Happy & Healthy Families, Regardless of Family Structure Learn, Connect, & Create! A FREE, online, multi-media program designed

This Program Has… Videos – Hear Dads’ Real Life Experiences

Information: Access Accurate & Concise

Information

Discussion Forum – Connect and Share

Online Tools – Use Creative Strategies to

Communicate & Stay Connected

Activities - Engage in Activities

Independently or with Your Child

Resources – Build Your Own Parenting

Tool Box!

Page 3: Apart Not Broken Committed to Happy & Healthy Families, Regardless of Family Structure Learn, Connect, & Create! A FREE, online, multi-media program designed

This Program Is… FREE – No Cost

Confidential – Online & Private

Efficient – 12 self-paced sessions of about 30

minutes each

Flexible – Choose when, where and how long you

spend on each session

Convenient – Available 24-7 anywhere with an

Internet Connection

Ongoing – Starts when you register!

Page 4: Apart Not Broken Committed to Happy & Healthy Families, Regardless of Family Structure Learn, Connect, & Create! A FREE, online, multi-media program designed

Organization of the Program

What You Can Expect: On Your Mark!

This section will address how things are different after separation or divorce.

What It Means: Get Set!

This section will highlight the implications of those changes.

What You Can Do About It: Go!

This section will help you take action. This will include a new parenting tool, activity, option for using technology, and some additional considerations and suggestions.

Each session is broken into three sections:

Page 5: Apart Not Broken Committed to Happy & Healthy Families, Regardless of Family Structure Learn, Connect, & Create! A FREE, online, multi-media program designed

Table of Contents1 – Getting Started: Introduction and Opening Activity:

2 – Adjusting to Separation/Divorce: Parting

3 – The Crux of the Separation/Divorce

4 – Reinventing Yourself

5 – Active Parenting: Providing, Disciplining, & Teaching

6 – Expressive Parenting: Supporting, Caretaking, & Protecting

7 – Co-Parenting

8 – The YOU in Communication

9 – Foundations of Relatedness

10 – Listening

11 – Owning Up & Cleaning Up When Things Don’t Go As Planned

12 – Creating the Relationship You Want with Your Child Over Time

Page 6: Apart Not Broken Committed to Happy & Healthy Families, Regardless of Family Structure Learn, Connect, & Create! A FREE, online, multi-media program designed

Welcome!

Page 7: Apart Not Broken Committed to Happy & Healthy Families, Regardless of Family Structure Learn, Connect, & Create! A FREE, online, multi-media program designed

Current & Concise Info

Page 8: Apart Not Broken Committed to Happy & Healthy Families, Regardless of Family Structure Learn, Connect, & Create! A FREE, online, multi-media program designed

Videos

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Parenting Tools & Activities

Page 10: Apart Not Broken Committed to Happy & Healthy Families, Regardless of Family Structure Learn, Connect, & Create! A FREE, online, multi-media program designed

Program Objectives

Increase Parental Involvement

Build Effective Parenting Skills

Strengthen Communication

Build Confidence

Strengthen Parental Satisfaction

Enhance Emotional Closeness

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Evaluation

This Program will be evaluated through the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Pre-post surveys

5-Question Feedback Form at the end of each session

Web Analytics

Page 12: Apart Not Broken Committed to Happy & Healthy Families, Regardless of Family Structure Learn, Connect, & Create! A FREE, online, multi-media program designed

For More InformationApart Not Broken: Learn Connect, & Create!www.divorceddadinstitute.com

www.divorceddadinstitute.com/newsletter

Contact Information:Shelly D. Mahon

[email protected] 608-770-1342

Personal Website/Blog http://shellydmahon.wordpress.com

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