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Christian Family Movement
Solo Parents Program

What is the CFM Solo Parents?

The Christian Family Movement Solo Parents is one of the projects adopted in the International Confederation of Christian Family Movements (ICCFM) held in 1977 in Manila. It is a program that guides solo parents to be more in the mainstream of life with Christ as the center-point. It offers to interested solo parents insights on how to adjust to their new roles and how to help themselves grow through:

• Monthly group meetings
• Inter-personal communication (telephone calls, developing family skills in communication, etc.)
• Retreats, recollections, seminars and open forum
• Counseling services with the help of guidance personnel
• Fellowship socials and dancing
• Family socials and picnics

What are its objectives?

The program seeks to:

1. Reach out to single parents and help them adjust to their new roles;
2. Work out self-directed and family-centered goals in meaningful relationships and fulfilling activities;
3. Develop a Christian concern for those thrust into single parenthood.

Why the Solo Parents Program?

• Solo parents can best empathize with one another because of the common trauma they had to face.
• Solo parents have to be helped to shed off their feelings of emptiness and to discover a new meaning in life.
• Solo parents may best help other solo parents bring about personal growth and family stability through sharing of tried and tested experiences.
• The growing number of solo parents in the country warrants a need for a group to understand and accept them.

Who can join?

• Widows and widowers
• Separated spouse
• Unwed mothers/fathers
• Single parents with adopted children

Major Activities:

CFM Solo Parents offers half-day/full-day mini-seminars/workshops to tackle the four major stressors that solo parents have to cope with such as:

1. Coping with the experience of loss and separation;
2. Creative parenting independently of spouse;
3. Social acceptability and new relationships;
4. Dealing with economic realities and legal issues.

The mini-seminars and workshops are led by the CFM Solo Parents and include topics covering the abovementioned stressors along with Growth and Renewal.

Requests may be coursed through the following officers:

Chit Almario
302 Vernida Townhomes, Firefly St., Valle Verde 6
Tel. No. 633-1965

Sony Sison
E/C1 Woodside Homes, Hemady St., Quezon City
Tel. No. 723-1516; Fax. No. 415-9809

Betty Deniega
101 Balete Drive Ext., Quezon City
Tel. No. 721-7249