The Lionheart Foundation
HomeBringing a powerful and effective emotional literacy curriculum to prisoners and youth at risk across the country.
- The Youth Project
- About the Book Power Source
- The Power Source Facilitators’ Manual
- The Power Source Video Series
- The Power Source Professional Training On DVD
- About Power Source Parenting
- Author Bethany Casarjian
- What Teens Say About Power Source
- What Professionals Say About Power Source
- Professional Trainings
About Power Source Parenting
Power Source Parenting: Growing Up Strong and Raising Healthy Kids is the newest component of the Lionheart Foundation’s larger youth initiative. It is a practical, accessible, and innovative book/curriculum written for at-risk teen and young adult parents and the professionals who support them. It can be can be read by young parents on their own, or the concepts, exercises, and numerous firsthand stories by young parents can be introduced and explored in facilitated parenting groups or during individual home visits or counseling sessions.
Among the topics included are:
- Creating a healthy attachment to one’s child
- Coping with the stress of parenting in adaptive ways
- Implementing positive discipline practices
- Managing three generational living
- Establishing healthy relationships with partners
- Breaking cycles of domestic violence
- Bringing greater awareness to patterns of high-risk behavior and its effects on one’s children
- A section for young fathers that addresses becoming a father in the wake of a fatherless upbringing and helping young fathers identify possible contributions not contingent upon finances.
Bethany Casarjian, Ph.D., Clinical Director of Lionheart’s youth project, is the author of Power Source Parenting. A Power Source Parenting Facilitator Manual and video series will be available in the future.
Receive a free professional courtesy copy.
Please request a courtesy copy ONLY if you / your agency work with pregnant or at-risk teen parents in a counseling capacity. Thank you.
This book is an indispensable source for young parents themselves, and for those who work with them.
Judith S. Musick, Ph.D., Founding Director, The Ounce of Prevention Fund, Chicago, II
Author, Young, Poor, and Pregnant: The Psychology of Teen Motherhood
A resource sure to enhance your program.
Pat Paluzzi, DrPH, President CEO
Healthy Teen Network, Baltimore, MD
I wholeheartedly endorse this book.
Carolyn Wiseheart, Executive Director
Healthy Families San Angelo, San Angelo, Texas