Awards
The Creating Lasting Family Connections Program headlines the Resilient Futures Network product line. CLFC is one of the most comprehensive, yet flexible evidence based personal and family strengthening programs in the world. Below is a partial list of awards and recognitions that this evidence-based program has received.
- In 2013 the Creating Lasting Family Connections Marriage Enhancement program was listed on the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP).
- In 2013 the Creating Lasting Family Connections Fatherhood Program: Family Reintegration was listed on the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP).
- In 2013, the John C. Maxwell Leadership Team selected Ted N. Strader to be among the top 100 leaders in the country across the fields of business, government/military, sports, media, faith-based, family/youth, education, arts and entertainment, health and wellness, and community service. Mr. Strader was selected as one of the top 10 leaders in the country in the Family/Youth category.
- In 2010 the Creating Lasting Family Connections Program was recognized as an unprecedented fourth time recipient of the Exemplary Program Award from the National Prevention Network (NPN) and the National Association of State Alcohol/Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) (1989, 1995, 2000 and 2010).
- In 2010 the Creating Lasting Family Connections program was again listed as a Model Program by the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network sponsored by Clemson University.
- In 2009 the Creating Lasting Family Connections program was identified as a Promising Fatherhood Program in the Administration for Children and Families’ Responsible Fatherhood Initiative.
- In 2007 the Creating Lasting Family Connections program was listed on the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP).
- In 2006 the Creating Lasting Family Connections program was reconfirmed as an effective substance abuse and violence prevention curriculum by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
- In 2002, Creating Lasting Family Connections was chosen as a Model Program by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
- In 2001, COPES and the Creating Lasting Family Connections program received a Special Recognition Award from the Executive Office of the President’s Office of National Drug Control Policy.
- In 2001, Creating Lasting Family Connections received the U.S. Department of Education’s Certificate of Recognition as a Promising Program for Safe, Disciplined and Drug-Free Schools.
- In 2001, Creating Lasting Family Connections was featured as an Exemplary Program by Health Canada’s Preventing Substance Use Problems Among Young People: A Compendium of Best Practices.
- The Creating Lasting Family Connections program was featured as a Model Family Program in the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Strengthening America’s Family publication on substance abuse and delinquency prevention in 2000.
- In 1997, COPES Model program, Creating Lasting Family Connections, was chosen as one of only eight programs nationwide for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention’s model program dissemination project.
- The Creating Lasting Connections program was also featured in the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention’s “Prevention Works” video in 1996.
- Also in 1996, the Creating Lasting Connections program was selected to join the International Youth Foundation’s YouthNet, an international effort to replicate highly successful programs as demonstrated by research. Only the most rigorously evaluated and effective programs in the world are selected to receive this honor.
COPES won the Exemplary Award an unprecedented four different years!
– 1989, 1995, 1999, 2010.