Sharing feelings in one's own family and sharing with other FAST families builds community. Support from the FAST team is offered as needed. Kid's Play These developmentally appropriate organized activities offer children positive peer group experiences. No television is allowed. Time for hanging out together, having fun, and developing a peer network emphasizes friendship in a community.
Parents share their own successes and help one another help their children succeed in school.
Informal social-support networks emerge. Parents makes friends and find their peers to be supportive and wise. Parents build a local association of interdependent families. FAST professionals serve as backup support. Play materials are provided.