Nurturing Parent Classes

The Nurturing Parenting Program is an education program to be used with families in situations that impact their ability to parent.  Sessions are 2 hours in duration and meet weekly for 8 weeks.

Nurturing parenting programs are effective for families at risk of abuse and neglect or in recovery for alcohol and other drug use.  The program helps families have positive changes in parenting and child rearing attitudes, including: appropriate expectations, empathy, corporal punishment, and parent-child role reversal.  The curriculum places greater emphasis on helping parents develop concrete parenting skills as well as think about the importance of parent and child relationships.

Referring agencies receive:

• Results of pre and post test (The Adult Adolescent Parenting Inventory)
• Strengths and needs Summaries at 30 day intervals
• Family Social History Questionnaire
• Weekly summary of notes of client participation and material covered.

If you are involved with a parent who is involved in a court system or Department of Children’s Services who is in need of parenting classes, and you’d like to make a referral to the Nurturing Parenting Program, email Claudia Oviedo at Claudia.Oviedo@pcat.org or call her at 615-383-0994.