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Offers parenting support and education for women and men.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Expectant/New Parent Assistance

Offers free group-education parenting skills classes, subjects such as Wellness, managing or prevent diabetes, heart disease, or obesity.

Positive Parenting, focusing on discipline, temperament and development, and sibling rivalry.

Prenatal care, preparing for birth and questions and answers about breast feeding. Expectant moms are encouraged to bring support person.

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Community Wellness Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Diabetes Management Clinics

12 week class addressing:

-- Family Values.

-- Behavioral challenges.

-- Healthy partner relationships.

-- Speaking and listening skills.

-- Sibling relationships.

-- Many more topics.

Pregnancy and Parenting Resource Center to help those who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy or need help with parenting skills. Diapers/wipes, formula, etc available with participation. Free pregnancy tests available.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Pregnancy Testing
Formula/Baby Food
Diapers

Offers free group-education parenting skills classes, subjects such as Wellness, managing or prevent diabetes, heart disease, or obesity.

Positive Parenting, focusing on discipline, temperament and development, and sibling rivalry.

Prenatal care, preparing for birth and questions and answers about breast feeding. Expectant moms are encouraged to bring support person.

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Community Wellness Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Diabetes Management Clinics

Offers:

- Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) for those interested in learning additional parenting skills.

- Children First, a two-session educational program for divorcing parents.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Co-Parenting Workshops

Support includes learning to access and utilize community resources, parenting classes, anger management classes, Circle of Security, Strengthening Families, Love and Logic, and Common Sense Parenting Classes.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Anger Management
Offers prenatal and parenting educational classes, individual and group classes, life coaching, and case management.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Childbirth Education

Provides equitable access and opportunities for economic success for underserved clients. Programs include job readiness, assisting with job placement and developing skills to aid in job retention, ELL, citizenship, computer skills, resume writing, networking, cultural transition support groups and peer discussions, effective parenting, education and coaching to enhance and promote financial literacy and long-term self-sufficiency, and other skills necessary to compete in the modern workplace.

The programs address the barriers impacting low income and refugee families and their ability to move along the self-sufficiency continuum. Barriers from employment discrimination, language barriers, poverty, family conflict, transportation, financial illiteracy, and much more. Programs and class offerings are designed to be flexible to fit individual needs, and include a "high touch" service model which is both culturally competent and language specific.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Cultural Transition Counseling
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Job Search/Placement
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Financial Literacy Training
Eye Examinations
The Family Resource Center provides a culturally welcoming environment where families and individuals can gather to develop personal, educational, and family skills.

Through the Family Strengthening Program, families learn about resources and positive ways to integrate into a new culture, overcome barriers and make informed decisions about their future.

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Financial Literacy Training
Nutrition Education
Parenting Skills Classes
General Health Education Programs
Family Life Education

Provides face to face or virtual coaching, teaching, and role modeling to assists the family in creative, rapid and sustainable change in the family unit through supervised visits between parents and children to promote parent-child attachment.

Parenting programs for parents of children 2-5 years old, 6-16 years old, ADD/ADH/ADHD children, and Spanish speaking parents - La Crianiza Practica Le Los Hijos, Ninos.

Classes held in various locations.

Offers community classes covering a variety of topics including Life Skills Training - Family Life Series, Stepping Up, personal development, anger management, and Positive Parenting.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Life Skills Education
Anger Management
Offers one-to-one counseling, group or family sessions for substance abuse including opioids, as well as for problem gambling. Offers substance abuse evaluation, DUI classes, restorative parenting classes, and referrals to other social services in the area.

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Gambling Disorder Counseling
Parenting Skills Classes
Alcohol Use Disorder Support Groups
Drug Use Disorder Support Groups
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
DUI Offender Programs
Goal is to have a central point of coordinated intake for Black Hawk County and surrounding communities.
Offers several educational opportunities for parents to learn about trauma, sexual abuse, and other topics. See website for updated course list.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Child Abuse Prevention
General Abuse Prevention
Parent Share and Support offers an adolescent pregnancy prevention program.
Works with families and children in need of a safe and stable home. Home studies, support for foster and adoptive parents and relative caregivers, safety planning for families in crises, and life and parenting skills training are some of the services offered.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Adoptive Family Recruitment
Parenting Skills Classes
Provides information and support to parents or expecting parents who are parenting a child from birth to 5 years of age. Topics cover parenting issues as well as personal growth issues. Holds weekly meetings with a meal, onsite childcare and provides free transportation. Prenatal groups are also available for expectant moms.
Offers parenting support and education for women and men.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Offers health and educational services to pregnant or parenting mothers. Educational classes related to pregnancy, infant care, and parenting are available. Clothing, baby supplies and equipment such as diapers, bottles, bedding, strollers, car seats, and more are available through participation in approved activities and educational programs. Can also offer assistance in locating and providing referrals to additional community services

Nest Programs are incentive-based programs. As participants demonstrate healthy behaviors, they earn points to redeem for baby supplies and equipment for free. Examples of healthy behaviors include attending classes, prenatal office visits, child immunizations, well-baby visits, and home visits.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Offers one-to-one counseling, group or family sessions for substance abuse including opioids, as well as for problem gambling. Offers substance abuse evaluation, DUI classes, restorative parenting classes, and referrals to other social services in the area.

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Gambling Disorder Counseling
Parenting Skills Classes
Alcohol Use Disorder Support Groups
Drug Use Disorder Support Groups
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
DUI Offender Programs

Offers community classes covering a variety of topics including Life Skills Training - Family Life Series, Stepping Up, personal development, anger management, and Positive Parenting.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Life Skills Education
Anger Management

Provides educational advocacy, resources, training and on-on-one guidance for families of students with disabilities and the professionals who serve them.

FAMILY TO FAMILY program is a statewide network of Family Navigators who provide assistance to families of children with special needs (developmental, behavioral, emotional, and/or physical).

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Parenting Helplines
Parent Rights Classes
Special Education
Disability Rights Groups
Parenting Skills Classes
Disability Related Parenting Programs
Education Advocacy Groups
Uses the Creative Curriculum to serve ages 6 weeks-5 years through a licensed and curriculum based program with developmental screening and family connection nights.