Welcome to ARK!
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The ARK (Adults Relating to Kids) Program is a revolutionary, research-based approach utilizing unconditional love to build children’s self-esteem.
ARK currently is being shared in schools, churches, prisons, juvenile courts, women’s shelters, childcare facilities, and corporations (as an employee benefit). It is research-based and field-tested. ARK makes a tremendous difference in the quality of life shared by children and their families and schools!
The program is a employs a peer-mentoring, small-group process for parents, teachers, and caregivers, thereby enabling adults to set in motion new parenting and teachers behaviors that will enhance the lives of their children and their children’s children for generations to come. The ARK Program employs manuals, DVDs, and discussion groups and includes the following courses: ARK for Parents and Caregivers (English and Spanish), ARK for Christian Parents (English and Spanish), ARK for Teachers, ARK for College, ARK for Teens, ARK for Kids, and ARK for Divorced Parents. While offerring a plethora of programming for all age groups, ARK’s primary focus is working with parents and teachers –who are the primary adults in children’s lives.
New, ground-breaking research conducted by the ARKGroup in cooperation with the University of Texas School of Public Health (Houston) provides a new paradigm for understanding how self-esteem is generated in children. This research shows the essential connection between a child’s sense of self-esteem and his receiving unconditional love from an adult who is primary in that child’s life. It involves a parent, teacher, counselor, etc. saying to a young person, “Make no mistake about it, I will discipline your misbehavior. However, you are my child (student), and I love you; and, no matter what you do, I will always love you.” This gift of unconditonal love allows a child to value herself in spite of her imperfections and is the key to high self-esteem and a postive self-concept.
ARK (Adults Relating to Kids)
(281) 537-1301
wduffy@thearkgroup.org
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