Parenting Classes
The Family Resource Center offers a variety free Parenting Classes on different topics. Pre registration is required for all courses.
New Parent Support
- Boot Camp for New Dads – Veteran dads and their newborns orient rookie dads who are expecting their first child. This class is offered in English and Spanish.
- Newborn Baby Care Class – This course focuses on feeding, diapering, developmental issues, medical care, child care choices and safety concerns for your new infant.
- Baby Steps– A support group for parents of newborns (to walking). Share your experiences with others.
- Healthy Families– This program helps to ensure new parents get their babies off to a good start in life and has been effective in enhancing a child’s growth and development, strengthening families and making parents better able to utilize community resources in caring for their children.
- Baby Signs®– The Baby Signs Program teaches babies to use simple, easy-to-do gestures for communicating with their parents and caregivers. These gestures or "signs" represent an item or concept, like "cat," "eat," or "all gone." To learn more information please visit www.babysigns.com.
Parenting Skills Classes
- 1,2,3,4 Parents! /1,2,3,4, Padres! – Offered in English and Spanish this six-week course is for parents of children ages 1-4 years old. Topics include: age appropriate behaviors, parent/child relationships, how to handle tantrums, and safety prevention tips.
- Active Parenting Now/Padre Activos Ahora – Offered in English and Spanish, this eight-week class is for parents of children 5-12 years old. Topics include: increasing courage and self-esteem, positive discipline techniques, eliminating power struggles.
- Parents & Tweens– An 8-week communication skills class for parents and their pre-teens grades 4th - 7th.
- Parenting Your Teen/Sobre la Adolescencia - A 6-week class for parents of teenagers 12-18. Topics include: Behavior management, adolescent development, teaching responsibility & good judgement, communication and listening skills.
- Parenting Children with ADHD – This 6-week class focuses on the signs and symptoms of ADHD, getting help for your child, treating ADHD at home and school and medication information.
- Parent Anger Management – This 6-week class teaches parents to use the problem solving approach to understanding anger identifying hidden anger and how to avoid power struggles.
- Contemporary Parenting – A 6-week parenting skills class for families with step, non-bio, live in, kinship, foster, single, and adoption relationships.
- Kinship Parenting – This is a free 7-week class for aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. raising a family member's child(ren).
Families in Transition
- Co-Parenting through Divorce – This 8-week video based, psycho-educational curriculum is designed to assist divorced parents in reducing parental conflict and the risk factor’s that influence the child’s post-divorce adjustment. There is a workbook fee for this course.