MCH brought families together during its fall 2014 Family
Day on Friday, Oct. 3. Family Day is hosted twice a year for families of youth in our residential program to visit the campus. The fall event is held for the Waco campus at the Johnson
Student Center, and the spring event is organized by each individual home unit.
“Family Day is an opportunity for parents or guardians to
spend time with youth engaging in fun activities, experience campus life and
learn Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) techniques and how they can
use TBRI to positively impact their family,” said Jeff Creel, associate
administrator for Waco campus.
TBRI is an intervention model for a wide range of childhood
behavioral problems designed for children who have experienced relationship-based
trauma. MCH has partnered with the Institute of Child Development at Texas
Christian University to implement TBRI methods in our everyday care.
On Friday, families joined youth for the pep rally in the
afternoon followed by bingo and board games at Johnson Student Center. Parents then attended a
training session on the IDEAL response, a TBRI method for correcting a youth’s
negative behavior. That evening, families were invited to attend the MCH
football game versus Lometa.
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