Community Outreach Programs

The Jaeke Family Life program is involved in two different categories of community outreach:

I. Funded Programs

• Grant School in Rock Island
• • Purchase of sewing machines for families to make school uniforms
  • Education classes for parents
  • • Talking about sex with your child
    • Helping your child with their math homework
  • Provision of phone line for parent coordinator
• Mississippi Valley Boys and Girls Club
• • Purchase of pool table
• Child Abuse Council
• • Buy-a-case sponsor for Life-Saver Campaign
  • Co-sponsor of Midwest Conference on Child Abuse
  • Co-sponsor for Quad-City Week of the Family
• Augustana College public events
• • Sponsored slide show "Beauty and the Breast" in conjunction with presentation of the play "Purple Breasts" to help raise consciousness about breast cancer
  • Guest Lecturer Dr. John Defrain form the University of Nebraska to speak on the "characteristics of Strong Families"
  • Co-sponsor
• Community-wide events
• • 1996 Week of the Family
  • Television Consotium discussing children's programming in response to the Children's Television Act--1996

II. Research

• Current research is providing some local couples with the opportunity to improve their marriage relationship.

III. Relationship Training

• PREP Newsgroup

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