Family Skills
FOCUS helps make families stronger by teaching key resilience skills that improve family closeness and reduce conflict. We’ve gathered our resources for you to explore on this page. They are sorted by skill or family habit. These articles and handouts can help your family learn about the FOCUS Skills and see if FOCUS might be a good fit for you!
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Emotion Regulation
Family Closeness
- FOCUS on… Family Closeness: Family Puzzle
- FOCUS on… Family Closeness: Family Crests
- Summertime Fun
- Maintaining Cheer Throughout the Holidays
- Rainy Day Activities: Blog Post
- Snappy Self Care Solutions
- Finding Relief and Hope with FOCUS: Blog Post
- Healthy Habits for Life
- Holding a Family Meeting: Blog Post
- Family Ideal Scene
- Family Scrapbook
- Family Statements
- Family Collage
- Family Calendar
- How to Hold a Family Meeting
Routines
Goal Setting
Transitions
Communication
- FOCUS on… Family Calendars
- Powering up your Parenting
- Tips for Tacking Common Family Challenges
- Ready, Set, Back to School!
- The FOCUS Upgrade: Blog Post
- Holding a Family Meeting: Blog Post
- How to Hold a Family Meeting
- Family Ideal Scene
- Family Scrapbook
- Effective Communication Skills
- Family Statements
- Family Collage
- Family Calendar
- How to Hold a Family Meeting
Problem Solving
- Snappy Self Care Solutions
- Tips for Tacking Common Family Challenges
- FOCUS on… Family Calendars
- Ready, Set, Back to School!
- Finding Relief and Hope with FOCUS: Blog Post
- The FOCUS Upgrade: Blog Post
- Holding a Family Meeting: Blog Post
- How to Hold a Family Meeting
- National Drug Facts Week: Blog Post
- SNAP Problem Solving Model
- SNAP for Kids
Deployment
- How it Works- The Deployment Spiral
- Deployment from a Spouse’s Perspective
- Thriving Through Deployment with FOCUS: Blog Post
- About a Billion Days: Blog Post
- FOCUS on… Time Marking
- Double Duty Rainy Day Activities
- Maintaining Cheer Throughout the Holidays
- A Transformational Journey of Family Bonding through FOCUS: Blog Post
- Healing our Wounds of War through FOCUS: Blog Post
- Keeping it together: Blog Post
- The FOCUS Upgrade: Blog Post
- What the heck is FOCUS?: Blog Post
- Top 5 Questions
- Understanding Deployment Reminders
- Tips for Managing Deployment Reminders
- Child Reactions to Parental Deployment (Teens)
- Child Reactions to Parental Deployment (School-Aged Children)
- Child Reactions to Parental Deployment (Very Young Children)
- Deployment Tips for Families