Many times women who feel called to religious life want to make the world a better place to be! I would like to share with you how Sister Julie Marie Peters, a Sister of the Sorrowful Mother and a group of her fellow Sisters and lay collaborators (professionals) do just that in the Caribbean. Sister Julie Marie, a Family and Marriage counselor, is Director of the Franciscan Institute for Personal and Family Development, Inc. The Franciscan Institute for Personal and Family Development in collaboration with the Archdiocesan Family Life Com mission (AFLC) offers Common Sense Parenting (CSP) programs. Common Sense Parenting (CSP) seeks to provide parents with six basic skills: organizing family, safe home rule, effective praise, preventive teaching, corrective teaching and teaching self-control. CSP is an internationally acclaimed parent education program.
In the Caribbean, the Franciscan Institute has trained 190 parents to teach the course, has reached 18,000 family members, has educated 3,800 parents, has delivered 300 Common Sense Parenting programs, and has involved 100 schools in the training. Sixty (60) churches, mosques, NGOs and other organization have also participating in the educative process.
One of the parents who went through this program stated: "Fifteen years ago I became a mother, but I finally became a parent." She was now talking in such a way that her children were listening and she was no longer shouting and throwing things.
Feel called to make a difference in the world as a woman religious, call Sister Dorothy Ann Dirkx at 920-230-6157 or email her at ssmvoc@gmail.com.
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