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Parenting Training and Support

Professional facilitators provide one-to-one training for adults with developmental disabilities so they may successfully parent a child in their natural environment in order to sustain the family.

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Our Parenting Program serves people with developmental disabilities who have minor children. We work with individuals who need parent training, who have open child welfare cases, and sensory impairments. The program serves people both ambulatory and non-ambulatory. All of our services are person-centered.

We work closely with individuals and their families to provide services and supports that are person-centered, age-appropriate, and culturally sound.

About The Program

Support Network

Build new supports, navigate community resources or communicate needs with existing supports.

Creating Limits and Rules

Learn the steps to promote positive child behaviors and to respond appropriately to negative behaviors when they occur.

Childhood & Individual Child

Understand childhood and the individual child. Develop family meeting agendas, role-play routines, and research activities.

Nutrition

Identify healthy food items and recipes, and develop strategies to implement healthy meal plans into the child’s diet.

Handling Your Anger

Learn how to respond to the everyday frustrations of parenting and to develop skills to communicate with the child when angry.

Problem Solving

Practice effective problem-solving strategies, which promote the child’s development of higher reasoning skills, responsibility, and self-esteem.

Teaching

Provide learning activities in the home. This can include how to enroll in and navigate educational programs in the community, implement academic routines after school, or potty train a toddler.

Safety

Prepare an emergency kit with critical supplies and information, and practice what to do in the case of an emergency.

Early Childhood Development

Understand and implement all aspects of child health care based on principles of early childhood development. Recognize and nurture developmental milestones.

  • In-Home Visits to Teach Parenting Skills and Assess Parenting Competency.
  • Parent Training Adapted for Parents With Developmental Disabilities.
  • Help With Shopping and Money Management.
  • Service Coordination.
  • Health Care, Learning to Deal With Doctors.
  • Cooking & Meal Planning.
  • Grocery Shopping.
  • Settling Disputes.
  • Building and Maintaining
  • Interpersonal Relationships.
  • Household Maintenance
  • Participating in the Community Managing Personal Finances.
  • Scheduling and Attending Medical and Dental Appointments.
  • Utilizing Public Transportation.
  • Personal Attendant Services for People Who Need Help With Physical and/or Personal Care.
  • Assistance With Public Benefits Issues (SSI, Social Security, MediCal, IHSS and Medicare.
  • Assistance in Finding Medi-Cal, Denti-Cal, and (if Needed) Mental Health Providers.
  • Assistance in Finding and Securing Affordable, Accessible, and Safe Housing.
  • Assistance in Finding Suitable Housemates.

We develop a Parent Training/Support Program with the following characteristics:

Structure: tasks and skills are taught in small steps; modeling new tasks, giving feedback, and providing opportunities for practice and repetition.

Assessment of needs that takes into consideration what parents already know, how this was learned and how they learn best.

Training will be specifically targeted to the parent’s individual needs for learning.

Respect for the cultural values and traditions of the families served

Rigorous staff training and quality assurance protocols.

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