2. Empower Within - Families First A’kecia Robinson Vice President of Public Relations East Mecklenburg High School district 6

3. Overview The Families First national program is a program that discovers ways to strengthen family relationships. FCCLA helps educate youth to gain a better understanding of how families work, and learn skills to become strong family members.

4. Objective NC Fccla members will be able to empower themselves by becoming better family members. Using the 5 different units: 1.Families Today 2.You-Me-Us 3.Meet The Challenge families first website families first website 4.Balancing Family and Career 5.Parent Practice

5. AGENDA 1.Ice Breakers a.1Question b.The M&M’S Game 2.Presentation a.Goals b.Purposes c.Workshop 3.Handouts a.Handout #1 b.Handout #2 c.Handout #3 4.Guest Speakers a.Look Up by Gary Turk 5.Activities a.React and Act Game b.Personal Trivia Baseball 6.Quotes & Conclusion a.Quote #1

6. Icebreaker #1 If they made a movie of your life, what would it be about and which actor would you want to play you? *This will take around 4mins*

7. IceBreaker #2 The M&M GAME ~Make a group of 3 ~(Teacher) bring a few bags of M&M's and poured them into a bowl. ~One person out of the group scoop a cupful of M&Ms and bring the cup back to the group ~Play a 3-way game of Rock-Paper-Scissors *The person who wins 2 out of 3 games goes first ~The first person will grab an M&M *look at the M&M color and say it out loud to your group *The person holding the paper will read the color sentence to you-M&M QuestionsM&M Questions ~After you answer the question that has been read to you *EAT EAT EAT YOUR M&M * This game will take around 25mins *

8. Goals Families First Goals - Help young people become strong family members and leaders for today and tomorrow -Strengthen the family as the basic unit of society

9. Purpose Families First Units: To help members focus their projects, Families First offers five units. Members may complete projects in one or several units. There is no particular order to them; although, "Families Today" might be a good place to start. It covers topics that provide a general overview of families and related issues: ●Families Today - Understand and celebrate families ●You-Me-Us - Strengthen family relationships ●Meet the Challenge - Overcome obstacles together ●Balancing Family and Career - Manage multiple responsibilities ●Parent Practice - Learn to nurture children.

10. Families First Awards Awards FCCLA offers national recognition to chapters that complete Families First projects. This honor includes cash awards and special recognition at the National Leadership Conference, online, and in Teen Times magazine. Chapters apply online for recognition for their hard work and innovative projects with the national Families First Program Award Application available on the FCCLA national website under Awards. Families First cash awards High families first websitefamilies first website School Award — $1,000 Middle School Award — $1,000 Runner-Up Award — $500 Deadline :Award Applications must be submitted online by March 1. The online award system will automatically close March 1, 11:59 p.m. EST.

11. Families First Family Conflict How To Prevent Set boundaries for conflict resolution. Disagreements and debates are displayed in a lot of family relationships and this isn’t healthy for children or any other family members. Conflict between family members can be avoided if there are rules everyone agrees with. Choose your battles! It’s better to let certain issues slide rather than make a big deal about every difference. Conflict can happen when family members have different views or beliefs.

12. Families First Quality Time A strong family finds a way to make quality time for each other. The more time you spend together, the better chance you have of sharing quality experiences. Eating meals together, talking about the events of the day, sharing joys and defeats, and spending some evenings popping corn and watching movies are examples of shared activities. You can even schedule one evening every week for special family activities. Doing things a child or spouse wants to do also sends a strong message of love. It’s a good idea to identify the things family members want to do together.

13. Families First Eating As A Family Dinner is a time to relax, recharge, laugh tell stories, and catch up on ones day. Dinner may be the only time you can reconnect as a family depending on your family. Sharing a family meal is for good spirit and the brain. It is also for the health of all family members. Recent studies link regular family dinners with many behaviors such as lowering risk of abusing alcohol and/or drugs, teens pregnancy, and depression, eating disorders, and obesity.

14. Handouts #1)Family Relations-Family RelationsFamily Relations #2)Family Faces-family facesfamily faces #3)Communication skills-communication skillscommunication skills

15. Guest Speaker Look Up - Gary Turk ~This video will take 4mins and 58sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY The Greatest Gift You Can Give Someone Is Your TIME Because When You Dedicate Your Time.You Are Offering A Part Of Your Life That You Will NEVER GET BACK BY:Unknown

16. React and Act Game React and Act! is a funny game in which players randomly select a sheet of paper that has an occurrence on it (for example, winning a million dollars in the lottery) and they must react to the occurrence using animated expressions, gestures,and words. After a set amount of time,other players try to guess what happened that caused those reactions and actions. Materials required include paper, pens, and a bag. Setup for React and Act Pass out sheets of paper and pens to the players. Have each person write an event. Tell them to be creative! Examples of events can include: you're messing with your younger sibling You just won the lottery You have just been proposed for marriage with an engagement ring You just got fired by an incompetent boss Your family is on vacation at disney world

17. React and Act Game Divide the group into two teams (or select five volunteers if it is a very large group). Five people on each team randomly select an event from the bag. Instruct them to react to this event, without explicitly giving away what the event is.Time limit 1 min and when you say “Go!”, have all five people to react to their event For example- the person who has just won the lottery could raise his or her arms and scream excitedly, jumping up and down. Each of the five actors can interact with each other, but they must stay “in character”and continue reacting and acting based upon what their sheet said. After time expires, the other members of the team try to guess what happened for each person. If you wish to keep score, each team gets a point for each correct guess. *This game will take around 30 mins*

18. Personal Trivia Baseball Divide the players into two teams of about six to eight people —other team sizes are possible but less idea. P ass out four sheets and a pen to each player. Instruct each person to write “S” on the first sheet, “D” on the second, “T” on the third, and “HR” on, the fourth. These letters stand for single, double, triple, and homerun, respectively. On each of these sheets, each person writes an interesting fact about their family and themselves. The fact written on the single (”S”) sheet should be the easiest to guess; the double (”D”) sheet should be a little harder to figure out; the triple (”T”) even harder;and the home run (”HR”) should be the hardest. Once everyone is finished writing their clues, collect them and sort them into four piles per team:singles, doubles, triples, home run. Shuffle all the papers and arrange the piles into four different corners of the room, in the shape of a baseball diamond.

19. Personal Trivia Baseball Each team has three “outs” per inning and tries to score as many runs as they can. On a turn, a player chooses to go for a single (easiest), double, triple, or home run (most difficult). He or she picks a sheet from the other team’s piles, reads it, and then guesses which of the people on the other team wrote the fact. Once he or she makes a guess, the guessed person on the other team simply says “yes” or“no”. If the guess is correct, the person successfully gets on base with a single, double, triple, or home run and moves to that part of the room. If the guess is incorrect, then the team adds another “out”. Move on to the next batter and repeat until there are three outs. Once there are three outs,change to the other team and repeat. Keep track of the number of runs each team has scored * This game will take around 30mins *

20. Quote #1 Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. -Brad Henry

21. Empower Within - Families First Before we say our goodbyes for now, take a picture with a fccla member and post it using the hashtag #ncfccla If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at akeciarobinson@gmail.com