Family Education ProgramBuild a strong foundation for a resilient home with a family education that enhances social-emotional skills, strengthens bonds, and nurtures healthy behaviors.
Positive Action's Family Series is a comprehensive, evidence-based program effectively designed to provide families with impactful resources that improve their individual and family self-concept, strengthen bonds, enrich family life, promote parent involvement in education, and reinforce learned positive behaviors and health habits.
The series develops important social and emotional competencies, including positive communication, empathy, and emotional regulation, laying the groundwork for family engagement, growth, and student success.
Every family member is an important pillar of their home, needing the right skills to strengthen their relationships and positively influence each other's overall well-being. Positive Action's extensive family program empowers families with effective tools and knowledge to nurture these individual strengths and bring the family closer together.
Family Series by Positive Action offers 50 constructively designed lessons for each version, tailored to meet family learning needs. These lessons provide practical strategies to address daily family challenges and support children academically while promoting emotional security.
The series is organized in a scaffolded, six-unit structure that instills and reinforces essential life skills for physical, intellectual, social, and emotional health that positively transform the whole self and the entire family dynamic.
The elementary version in the Family Series is carefully developed to engage younger children with relatable, age-appropriate stories and scenarios. Each lesson features continuing characters and settings designed to resonate with the experiences of elementary-aged students and their families. The activities are interactive, hands-on, and simple, helping children easily grasp core concepts.
The secondary version in the Family Series adapts the same proven structure and lesson concepts to meet the evolving needs of adolescents and their families. Compared to elementary stories and scenarios, those in secondary are more complex and nuanced, encouraging deeper discussions and more immersive collaboration with the community.
The curriculum nurtures ongoing parental involvement, ensuring that family support remains strong even as children grow older and seek greater independence, providing a consistent platform for continued connection and mutual support.
Grounded in the Positive Action philosophy, the Family Series introduces families to the process of human behavior as portrayed in the Thoughts-Actions-Feelings Circle: thoughts lead to actions, which in turn lead to feelings about oneself, influencing the following thoughts, actions, and ultimately, their self-concept.
Through structured lessons and activities, Positive Action strengthens this understanding and promotes positive behavior by tapping into families’ internal motivation for an improved sense of self and enriched family life. These lessons cover the following topics throughout the curriculum to instill self-development among families and strengthen their relationship:
With Positive Action’s family education, families learn strategies to be more thoughtful and intentional with their thoughts, actions, and feelings. More importantly, they discover the importance of their self-concept in effective parenting, addressing family challenges, and strengthening family connection and trust.
The series offers families opportunities to improve their relationships. With their social skills strengthened, including empathy, fairness, and compassion among others, they begin to act with greater kindness and consideration toward one another.
One of the biggest barriers to parent involvement in education is hectic schedules and piling responsibilities at work and home. Positive Action’s Family Series is thoughtfully designed to meet families where they are, regardless of structure or daily routine.
This innovative, adaptable curriculum provides free lessons that are easily customizable for single-parent households, multi-generational homes, blended families, and guardians of all kinds. Each family can set their own pace, choosing when and how activities fit into their week, so time constraints never stand in the way of student success and growing together.
The Family Series showed significant results in improving family conflict resolution, family cohesion, and parent-child bonding, ultimately solidifying family togetherness and individual development.
Focusing on health and wellness, the series empowers parents to strengthen their supportive parenting and children to choose responsible behavior for positive and beneficial outcomes.
Families who implement the program can learn to align their interests and work as a team, developing vital prosocial skills, family management skills, and intelligent decision-making. These skills are integrated into daily routines, making them part of the family’s daily interactions.
Participants in the Family Series experienced a measurable decline in family conflict. In the randomized trial, families using the curriculum saw an 8.2% reduction in conflict.
Family cohesion improved among participants, showing a 6.9% improvement.
Parent-child relationships deepened meaningfully through the program. Bonding scores improved by nearly 10% in the randomized trial.
Learning does not stop at school; it continues at home.
Positive Action's Family Series empowers schools to reinforce essential life skills and positive behaviors beyond the school day, while inspiring ongoing parental involvement in their students' education.
As studies consistently show, parent engagement in children's schooling helps students to perform better academically and exhibit positive behavior.
Integrating the Positive Action Family Program into the school’s curriculum means that the key concepts, character lessons, and emotional skills taught in the classroom are consistently supported, practiced, and celebrated at home.
The Family Series is designed with the same six-unit structure as the school curricula to create a common language for families, students, and educators across all settings.
This alignment allows educators to implement the family program alongside the school curriculum and offers families the opportunity to build on these concepts at home.
With the same unit themes and concepts, students experience consistency in learning and behavioral expectations, ensuring a supportive and aligned environment for character, life skills, and positive self-concept development.
The series provides families with opportunities to learn together, hone social-emotional skills, and build trust and respect through engaging lessons and activities. As they deepen their bond, these shared experiences translate into stronger parental involvement in their child's education.
With strengthened family engagement, children receive emotional and academic support, positive role models for behavior, and a greater sense of security, which are crucial factors for academic success, emotional resilience, and overall well-being.
The social-emotional health of students is nurtured, and they are better prepared to focus, participate, and reach their full potential in the classroom.
Parents have an unparalleled role in teaching their children, and they approach this role in distinctive and individualized ways. Positive Action works to support parents in their efforts to teach positive values and behaviors.
One of the many ways Positive Action helps parents understand, appreciate, and reinforce social-emotional concepts at home is through the Parent Handbook. This guide, for parents of elementary-aged children, provides information about and activities that align with what children are learning in their classroom, helping parents smoothly reinforce the concepts at home to increase their child's confidence and practice responsible actions.
In this guide, parents will learn:
Positive Action’s parent guide is a valuable tool for family education as it helps parents set clear expectations at home, foster consistency, and empower parents and guardians as partners.
Positive Action brings families closer by facilitating shared experiences, genuine conversations, and memorable fun through meaningful lessons that create core memories!
With consistent implementation, parents, children, and the whole family are guaranteed to develop important social skills that will serve them well in the present and the future.
Complementing the three-step structure, the second step—Positive Actions—offers multi-layered hands-on activities that reinforce the learned concepts across key areas: self, family, and community. The activities can be done at home through arts and crafts, storytelling, or family excursions, such as volunteering, planning an outreach, or visiting an educational place:
Shared successes create lasting memories for every family member.
After each unit, the program features special celebration lessons, providing opportunities for families to prioritize quality time together, review what they’ve learned, and bond over shared successes. These experiences reinforce parent involvement, solidify relationships, and apply new knowledge and habits.
Throughout the curriculum, families receive practical tools for cultivating social-emotional skills, deepening trust, and improving the family and individual self-concept. Among these tools are:
With these tools, family members can address daily challenges with healthy strategies, practice responsible financial habits, and create and maintain a peaceful, nurturing home environment.
Strengthen every pillar of your home with Positive Action’s Family Series. With an evidence-based family program, families are prepared to tackle real-world challenges and thrive through them together.
Join the thousands of families already seeing positive, lasting change. Start your family's journey toward resilience and well-being now with Positive Action!
