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Family Connections

The Strengthening Families Program suggests parents spend 15 minutes of one on one time each day with each child in the family doing an activity or playing a game that is not tied to behavior, grades or homework. This 15 minutes of time is an important piece to establishing and maintaining a strong healthy relationship and attachment for parents and children. This bonding time is found to improve behaviors, grades, motivation and overall health for the entire family.

The Natrona County Prevention Coalition’s subcommittee, Family & Parenting, has teamed up with Mercer and other organizations in Natrona County to provide families with information about the importance of attachment and bonding in the age of 21st century technology. Together our community has worked to create Family Connection Bags. These bags provide families with information about healthy screen time usage, and a tool to help set aside screens to establish family game nights and bonding time. Any parent in Natrona County Wyoming is welcome to come to Mercer to get their own family bag.