What is the Strengthening Families for the Future (SFF)?
Strengthening Families For the Future (SFF) is a family based prevention program for elementary school aged children between the ages of 7 – 11 (and their parents) who may be at risk for substance abuse, depression, violence, delinquency and school failure. The program is fourteen sessions in length. A booster or review session is also included. Each session begins with a family dinner, followed by separate one-hour sessions for parents and children and ends with a fifty-minute family session. A program coordinator administers SFF and program facilitators implement each session. Childcare workers take care of the younger children from participant families. Volunteers can assist in many ways depending on the program’s needs, e.g. meal preparation, childcare, session implementation.
