Conducting Support Groups for Elementary Children K-6: A Guide for Educators and Other Professionals

In this comprehensive guide educators will learn step by step how to build a support group program in their school setting.

Jerry Moe is now the National Director of Children’s Programs at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California with satellite programs in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, and Denver, Colorado. He is internationally known as an author, lecturer and trainer on issues for young children from addicted families. Jerry Moe has been developing programs and facilitating groups for children from addicted families since 1978 when he founded The Children’s Place Program in Redwood City, California. His teaching skills and understanding of children of alcoholics were featured in the documentary Lost Childhood: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Family which aired on KRON-TV in San Francisco and is being shown on public television stations throughout the country in beginning in 2005. He received the 2000 Ackerman/Black Award from the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA) for “significantly improving the lives of children of alcoholics in the United States and around the world,” the Promise Award in Texas in 1995 for helping children grow up principled, valued and caring, and the Marty Mann Award in 1993 for outstanding communication in the alcoholism and addiction field. Jerry Moe has authored books including: Kids’ Power: Healing Games for Children of Alcoholics' Conducting Support Groups for Elementary Children' Discovery… Finding the Buried Treasure' Kids’ Power Too: Words to Grow By' and The Children’s Place… At the Heart of Recovery. Jerry’s work has been featured on The Today Show, People Are Talking, NBC’s Newsmagazine Cover to Cover, Good Morning, Texas and Nickelodeon News, as well as in Parents, McCalls, YM, Parenting, and U.S. News and World Report magazines and in the Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He is an advisory board member of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NaCoA). Jerry Moe received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology and Master of Arts Degree in Education and Counseling from San Francisco State University. He also did post-graduate research and study in the areas of Family Systems Theory, Alcoholism and Children of Alcoholics at the University.