Family Education Training Center of Hawaii (FETCH)

FETCH provide services to families under stress. In a 12-week session each semester, FETCH provides parenting education, counseling, and four programs for youth, ages 2 to 18. Programs are on Friday afternoons from 5:30-8:00 p.m.. There are two 12-week sessions of FETCH throughout the school year. Parents attending all 12 meetings in a session receive a program completion certificate. The purpose of FETCH is to provide all members of distressed families with the skills they need to work together to restore family harmony and enhance adaptation. Our goal is to teach family members the skills they need to set up and
maintain a smooth-running family. Parents learn how to organize the family,
distribute family work, and elicit the cooperation of all family members. Parents learn how o communicate respectfully and effectively. Family
members learn how to set rules and routines as a group and what to do if a
family member fails to follow the agreed-upon rules. All family members, regardless of age, learn to contribute to the
well-being of the family. In turn, all members are given a voice and have
input into family decisions. Adequate planning, mutually respectful
communication, and voluntary cooperation by all members prevent parents
from feeling the need to control children in angry, autocratic ways. Parents learn neutral ways to communicate respectfully with their children. The learn how to control their anger, to interpret their children's actions
more accurately and to respond to misbehavior more effectively.