Educating parents with the skills necessary to be confident caregivers of today’s youth
Parenting with Confidence
What is the Parenting with Confidence Program?
- A series of 6-10 parenting skills classes that can be provided at your organization for your participants
- Free of charge
- Flexible scheduling around your organization’s needs
- Topics chosen by you to fit your participants’ needs
- In-home lessons available to participants that are unable to participate in the group sessions
Possible Class Topics
- *Introduction to Parenting/Child Development Birth to 12 months
- *Child Development 1-5 years
- *Shaken Baby Syndrome/Leaving children with Responsible Caregivers
- *Infant and Toddler Care Skills
- *Child Development 6-12 years
- *Child development of teens
- *Single parenting/co-parenting
- *Creating a safe home environment
- *Parent-child interaction/age appropriate activities
- *Consistency in parenting/setting up schedules, routines, and charts
- *Discipline (2 classes long)
- *Parents as Role Models/Communication
- *Budgeting
- *Nutrition (1 to 2 classes available)
- *Talking with your children about sex/sexual health
- *Identity Theft
- *Cyber Safety
Benefits for Participants
- All lessons are taught from research-based curricula
- Access to friendly and experienced parenting educators
- Make new connections to parents in their area
- Gain confidence in their care giving skills
- Receive a certificate-of-completion at the end of the program
How Do I Sign Up?
Contact one of our experienced educators:
- Sintya Rodriguez 518-622-9820 X211 [email protected]
- Megan Gardner 518-622-9820 X114 [email protected]
- Rebecca Polmateer 518-622-9820 X117 [email protected]
They will schedule the classes with you and send you an enrollment form to pick your class topics.
Contact
Rebecca Polmateer
Program Director
[email protected]
(518) 622-9820 x117
Last updated May 1, 2023