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  • Parenting Education
  • Support/Play Groups
  • Community Trainings
  • Resources for families

Parenting Education Programs

These courses are available year-round and are designed to address your specific questions, reduce family stress, and provide the parenting support you need as you navigate through parenthood. Remember, you are not alone! We cover a range of parenting education topics, from helpful tips and tricks to specialty programs. Below is a list of our most popular programs.

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Our most popular programs

Free parenting class on early childhood development and positive discipline.

Active Parenting: First Five Years

From babies to toddlers and preschool children, kids continue to amaze us with their rapid growth. Join our discussions on parenting education, brain development, and behavior management, all aimed at providing essential family resources and parenting support as you prepare for school.

Free Active Parenting class for kids ages 5-12.

Active Parenting 4th Edition: Ages 5-12

Enhance your parenting education with more tools for your parenting tool kit! These family resources include building character, managing behavior, effective communication, and problem prevention. Focus on strategies to increase child success while decreasing family stress. 


6 sessions

Free Christian Active Parenting class for parents of children 5 to 12.

Active Parenting: Christian families

For parents seeking a biblically based approach to parenting education, this course combines evidence-based parenting skills with biblical wisdom, nonviolent discipline, and effective communication, serving as valuable family resources and parenting support. 6 sessions

Free parenting class for stepfamilies to clarify roles and build unity.

Active Parenting for step families

When a stepfamily is formed, everyone needs to learn new rules. Parents need to collaborate effectively as a team, while children and teens must adapt to the changes in their family dynamic. To prevent potential challenges, it’s essential for everyone to build strong relationships with new family members, a process that can often be difficult. This program serves as a valuable family resource, offering guidance in parenting education and providing essential parenting support to help stepfamilies thrive.

Free 10-session Nurturing Parenting class focused on empathy and positive discipline.

nurturing parenting: CBE

Nurturing parenting community-based education (CBE) is a supportive program that serves as a vital family resource designed to strengthen families, enhance parenting education, and prevent child abuse through group learning. The key components include family skill-building, fostering community connections, and promoting positive discipline, all of which contribute to comprehensive parenting support. 


10 sessions

Free parenting classes: Circle of Security Parenting.

Circle of Security Parenting

As parents and caregivers, there are times we feel lost and uncertain. Imagine what it would be like if you could make sense of your child's needs with effective family resources. Circle of Security Parenting, which offers valuable parenting education, is grounded in decades of research on how to support and strengthen secure parent-child relationships. Join us for 8 sessions of impactful parenting support.

Free parenting class on Parenting in Recovery.

Nurturing Parents Through Treatment and Recovery

Join a group that understands the challenges of parenting. Explore how substance use and trauma impact parenting and discover family resources aimed at restoring the parent-child relationship. Focus on strengthening this vital connection as you move forward with effective parenting education and ongoing parenting support.  


17 sessions

Free 13-session parenting class for dads to strengthen relationships. Fathers. Parenting. Washington County. Hancock County. Parenting education.

Nurturing Fathers

This program is designed for any male involved in parenting a child. The series emphasizes the importance of male role models in a child's life, serving as a valuable family resource. We delve into parenting education topics that include the roots of fathering, nurturing children and self, positive discipline methods, managing emotions, resolving conflict, teamwork with a partner, and balancing work with fathering. These sessions provide essential parenting support through 13 informative sessions.

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