This document outlines strategies for promoting healthy relationships, including being self-aware of one's own strengths and weaknesses, building rapport with each child through responsiveness and support, and coaching or scaffolding to help children face challenges with guidance. It emphasizes the importance of adults serving as role models through demonstrating healthy behaviors and imparting positive messages to children through both words and actions. Maintaining rapport involves being nonjudgmental, building appreciation for others, and repairing mistakes.

1. Section 4
Strategies to Promote
Healthy Relationships
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2. Section 4
Learning Objectives for Strategies for
Promoting Relationships
Learn about promoting healthy relationships:
• in our own lives
• for individual children
• for groups of children
• in our organizations
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3. Five Strategies for Leaders to Promote
Healthy Relationships
1. Self awareness
2. Building rapport with each child or youth
3. Coaching or scaffolding
4. Create positive group dynamics
5. Systems support
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4. Self Awareness
http://www.youtube.com/watv=mBNSm56A1-c
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5. Self Awareness
Self Awareness is having a clear perception
of your personality, including strengths,
weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs,
motivation and emotions
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6. Self Awareness
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7. Self Awareness
It starts with us!
• Ensure we are modelling actions that
promote healthy behaviours and
relationships among children and youth.
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8. Adults’ Responsibilities
• Adults are role
models, mentors,
guides, teachers
• Knowledge about
the role of healthy
relationships in
child development
is critical
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10. Messaging
Adults impart messages to children and youth
through:
• Explicit teaching and advice
• Ignoring or turning a blind eye to behaviours
• tone, actions, facial
expressions, body language
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11. Building Rapport
• Be Responsive – Act upon what you see and hear
• Be Supportive – Accept that children and youth will
experience challenge or distress, and be there for them
when they need you
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12. Maintaining Rapport
We maintain rapport by:
• Being nonjudgmental
• Building an appreciation for the good in
everyone
• Assessing readiness, noting next steps, and
forming opportunities
• Repairing mistakes and restoring positive
feelings
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13. 1. Self awareness
2. Building Rapport
3. Coaching or scaffolding
• Adults need to coach and support children
and youth as they struggle with the
challenges of growing up in a socially
complex world.
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14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG8tcpeaK-k
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15. Connect Before Correct
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