PROGRAM GOALS
The goal of one taking a parenting class is to:
- Helps child and parents to reconnect in healthy appropriate fashion.
- Gives resources and ideas
- Enables families to develop a support system with parents working through similar issues
- To focus on family strengths
- Assistance in preventing the need for out-of-home placement
- Providing services to protect the child
- A safety zone for parents to learn new techniques
- Familiarize parents with community resources and supports
- Enhancing parenting skills
- Developing crisis intervention skills
The purpose of one enrolling in and completing a parenting class, outside of the standard reasons, such as a support network, court orders, etc., is to learn new and different parenting techniques or styles. In addition it gives families the opportunity to learn what may work for another family. The primary outcome is teaching a family to use choices and consequences for behaviors.
Sometimes it is necessary to have a more individual approach to a family. For this we have a family therapist on staff, who also works with individual needs. This allows a family member to have a place, outside of the home, to come and process, as well as learn and cope in a safe environment.