To increase family communication, cooperation, closeness, and respect.
THE NURTURING PARENTING PROGRAMS
These 15-week session programs are designed to increase family communication, cooperation, closeness, and respect. Parents and their children learn to handle feelings, communicate needs, understand each other better, take charge of their own behaviors and emotions, feel good about themselves, enjoy each other and have fun. Practical, effective techniques are taught for handling challenging behavior. Parents and children learn positive communication skills.
· ON GOING NURTURING PARENTING PROGRAM (Parents Only)
- Prevention Services Office, Middlesex County: Tuesdays, 6:15 pm-8:45 pm
- Warsaw Counseling Center, Richmond County: Mondays, 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Pre-registration is required. Cost: $15 Handbook + $15 p/peron/session (couples $25 p/session)
· NURTURING PARENTING PROGRAM (Parents & Children)
- Richmond County (Parents & Children: Ages 5-11) CLASS ENDED
Tuesdays, 09-13-11 thru 12-20-11, from 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Location: Richmond Elementary School, 361 Walnut Street, Warsaw, VA 22572
- Northumberland County (Parents & Adolescents: Ages 12-17) CLASS IN PROGRESS/PLEASE CALL FOR MORE INFO AT 804-758-9398
Thursdays, 11-03-11 thru 2-9-12, from 5:30 pm-8:30 pm
Location: Northumberland High School, 6234 Northumberland Hwy., Heathsville, VA 22473
- Middlesex County (Parents & Children: Ages 5-11) CLASS IN PROGRESS/PLEASE CALL FOR MORE INFO AT 804-758-9398
Tuesdays, 01-03-12 thru 04-13-12, from 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Location: Middlesex High School, 454 Gen. Puller Hwy., Saluda, VA 23149
Pre-registration is required. Participants can register up until the 2nd session. Classes are FREE. Stipends eligibility for regular class participation. Dinner is provided.
CHILDREN FIRST PROGRAM
The Prevention Services Division of the Middle Peninsula-Northern Neck Community Services Board is offering the Children First co-parenting education program for divorced, separated spouses, and single parents.
This 4-hour program is designed to help parents understand the importance of both parents having an active and involved relationship wth their children, how divorce or separation and continued conflic impact children, how to talk with children about the situation, how to manage confict and emotions constructively, how to take care of children during the changes in the family and how to develop a co-parenting relationship for the sake of your children. The group takes place in a supportive and nurturing atmosphere.
Cost of training: $50.00. Advanced pre-registration is required.
For further information or class schedule please call 1-888-PREV-550 (804-758-9398) or email
prev-famedu@mpnn.state.va.us.
The 'Guiding Good Choices' skill building program consists of six 2-hour sessions. The workshop focuses on preventing drug abuse among youth, developing healthy beliefs and clear standards, learning and practicing refusal skills, how to control and express anger, learning suicide prevention skills, and how to strengthen family bonds. Children attend the third session with their parents. For more information on hosting a workshop, please call Nancy Fisher at 1-888-PREV-550. This workshop is sponsored by the Prevention Services Division of the Middle Peninsula-Northern Neck Community Services Board. For additional information about the Guiding Good Choices program, log onto their website at www.channing-bete.com.
National Child Assault Prevention (CAP) Fact Sheet
Beginnings
The Child Assault Prevention (CAP) Project grew out of a response to a second grade teacher’s request for practical suggestions to prevent the sexual victimization of children. In 1978, Women Against Rape in Columbus, Ohio organized a group of concerned citizens that included teachers, parents, and therapists to research sexual assault against children. Their research led to the alarming discovery that one out of every four girls and one out of every six to ten boys are sexually assaulted before the age of eighteen. It became painfully clear that the problem of sexual assault against children needed to be addressed.
What began as a program for the second-grade class quickly evolved into a school project that included workshops for parents, teachers, administrators and school staff as well as children in each classroom. Requests for the program began to come in from other schools; the response to the fledgling Child Assault Prevention Project was overwhelmingly positive.
Women Against Rape began the search for funding to enable them to pilot the program in several elementary schools. Both the Ms. Foundation and the Columbus Foundation awarded the funds necessary to begin the project, and in September 1979, the CAP Project was officially born.
Nurturing Parenting Program Facilitator Training
Become a trained facilitator! This three-day training is designed for professionals who work with families and for individuals that are interested in facilitating the Nurturing Parenting Programs.
Participants will learn a hands-on approach to conducting home and group-based Nurturing Programs that includes how to facilitate weekly sessions of children's and parents' program activities. For more information, please call us at 1-888-PREV-550.
Typical on-site fees are $3,000 for up to 20 people for the training plus transportation costs (from Saluda, VA), lodging and food.
