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Steve Makofka's Resources

Steve Makofka is a Certified Parents Toolshop® Advisor (Coach), Group Facilitator (Trainer), and serves on the Relationship Toolshop® Virtual Trainer Team and Speaker Bureau. His areas of expertise are:

  • Kinship Care

  • Addiction Recovery

  • Teens

  • Healthy Relationships

  • Life Stage Transitions.

Steve has a BS in Education, a Master of Divinity degree, is a Certified Family Life Educator through the National Council on Family Relations, Certified Family Life Coach through the Family Life Coaching Association, and a member of the National Parenting Education Network.

He is the Founder of Family Dynamics LLC, through which he helps provide resources for groups that help build families. He has 25 years’ experience as a pastor of youth and family ministries and almost 10 years’ experience as a psychoeducational group leader on a mental health inpatient unit, teaching life skills to adolescents and adults.

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Steve Makofka's Resources

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De-escalating Freak Outs and Meltdowns: What To Do When Your Child Loses Self-Control...

Sometimes, your parenting goal is to just get your child to stop screaming and throwing things. Attend this webinar to better understand causes and types of out-of-control behaviors and ways to maintain your own self-control. You will also get a formula for responding appropriately and effectively to extreme behaviors.
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  • $149

Family Recovery Course

Every family is complicated, and dealing with addiction makes them even more complicated. If you or your loved has reached a certain level of sobriety, you’ve discovered that just being sober doesn’t heal the emotional wounds inflicted on family members and loved ones. There’s still a lot of hurt, anger, resentment, and trust issues that must be resolved.  Now that you’re healthy as a person, you want to be in he...
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  • $7.95

Family Recovery e-book

Every family is complicated, and dealing with addiction makes them even more complicated. If you or your loved has reached a certain level of sobriety, you’ve discovered that just being sober doesn’t heal the emotional wounds inflicted on family members and loved ones. There’s still a lot of hurt, anger, resentment, and trust issues that must be resolved.  Now that you’re healthy as a person, you want to be in he...
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It's a Great Time to be a Dad: How to Support the New Generation of Fathers

Explore modern fatherhood in this engaging, research-based course. Learn how today’s dads navigate evolving roles, build strong co-parenting relationships, model healthy masculinity, and parent with purpose. Gain practical tools for connection, discipline, and emotional growth—ideal for fathers and those who support them.
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  • $9.97

Releasing Guilt and Shame During Recovery

If you are a parent coming out of addiction and into recovery, guilt and shame can become barriers to reconnecting with your children and building new healthy relationships. Even when forgiven by others, it can be a struggle sometimes to forgive yourself.
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Why Do They Do That? Understanding the Connection Between Trauma and Addictive Behavior in Children and Adults

 Drug addiction is sending more children into the foster care system. In Ohio, about half of all children who enter foster care have drug addicted parents. Being in foster care is a predictive factor for addiction. In this session we will look at the link between trauma and addiction, and discuss therapeutic responses that promote resilience rather than re-traumatization. 
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