How We Help
How We Help
Momentum Coaching Group 3 Point System of Support
Each family participates in the design of an plan tailored to respond to their individualized needs. Then together with a Momentum Coach, families work toward mutual development of skills and tools that assist the young adult and their family create and sustain success.
This 3 Point Support System Includes:
Coaching for the Young Adult
- Assessment of strengths and roadblocks to success
- Skill building around independence
- Money management and budgeting
- Maintaining a living space
- Being a good neighbor / roommate
- Skill building for personal growth
- Developing healthy patterns of living and learning
- Academic or employment planning
- Goal planning and attainment
- Skill building toward creating a sustainable and enjoyable life
- Expanding a positive sense of self
- Developing coping strategies for everyday struggles
- Enhancing social interactions
- Giving back as a way of giving to self
- Improving relationships with friends and family
- Pursuing spiritual interests
- Choosing health and fitness
Coaching for Parents
Even parents who are confident in their child rearing skills may feel they have entered uncharted territory when relating to the struggles facing a young person transitioning to adulthood. Received with little or no credibility, helplessness and frustration may set in. To create changes that support positive parent/young adult interactions the following areas are addressed:
- Skill building around parenting a young adult vs. a child
- Communication with the Young Adult
- Expectations vs. suggestions
- Avoiding the “double binds”
- Team approach between parents
- Bringing the expectations of the outside world into the home
- Understanding how Young Adults learn
- Parent self care and relationship building
- Keeping healthy
- You are not your child’s choices
- Spouses working together to recognize common goals
- Prioritizing the spousal relationship
Coaching for the Family
- Everyone needs a voice at the table
- Improved communication through listening
- Understanding and sharing power
- Siblings: those who transitioned to adulthood and those who will
Things we have learned: Words of wisdom from families
“Even if we are able to see a clear line of sight regarding a pathway for our young adult, we recognized our desires alone were not enough to create the change that was needed.”
Making decisions on your own is a big part of independence. We learned that while our young adult can sometimes benefit from our experiences and advice they need to have opportunities to step forward at those “choice points” to move towards independence.
Momentum Coaching Group Therapeutic Commitment
Momentum coaching group supports each family as they work towards achieving their goals by:
- Providing 2-4 in-person interactions with the family per week
- Assuring 7-day a week availability to problem-solve struggles and implement interventions via phone or in person
- Affording full crisis support when the need arises
- Creating a roadmap to independence
- Supplying insight into self destructive and non-constructive family and individual behaviors
- Developing strategies to create and maintain healthy personal and professional relationships
- Offering proven approaches to improved communication
- Coaching the family system to support the emerging young adult
