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Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
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Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials
Parenting Skills Classes
Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
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Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials
Parenting Skills Classes
Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
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Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials
Parenting Skills Classes
Offers the Children In The Middle class for divorcing parents and other interested people. Provides education and affirmation for parents and others interested in the welfare of children. Primary focus is on children's needs and parent behavior. A class of this type is required for both parties in dissolution of marriage. Classes are currently offered online.
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Parenting Skills Classes
Court Ordered Parenting Programs
Co-Parenting Workshops
Weekly group meetings in Spanish for moms with children from birth to 5 years of age. Topics range from child development to those that address the unique needs of the Spanish speaking community. Transportation, on-site childcare, and a free meal are provided.
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Parenting Skills Classes
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.
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Parenting Skills Classes
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 research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
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Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials
Parenting Skills Classes
Offers to empower, support and advocate for foster, adoptive and kinship families across Iowa. IFAPA provides support, training and resources to promote safety, permanency and well-being for Iowa's children. Information and referrals are provided as well as parenting materials and skills classes. This is a private, non-profit organization. This is an affiliate of the National Foster Parents Association.
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Child Welfare/Family Services Associations
Parenting Materials
Parenting Skills Classes
Provides professional educational materials and workshops to childcare providers, parents, early childhood students and other community professionals. A resource library and toll-free "warm line" are available to provide a personal response to questions and concerns a client may have regarding childcare.
Offers in-services and workshops on topics such as child development, discipline, nutrition, CPR/First aid, and activities for children.
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Parenting Skills Classes
Parenting Helplines
Child Care Provider Training
YPN prenatal and parenting education is offered in French/Swahili to members of the African Community via our weekly group meetings or home visitations. Staff understand the language and culture barriers and help families navigate.
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Parent Support Groups
Parenting Skills Classes
Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
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Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials
Parenting Skills Classes
Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
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Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials
Parenting Skills Classes
Supports childcare providers and parents by inspiring, empowering, advocating, and educating through educational services, conferences, training workshops, meetings, policy and legislation.
Provides a resource room for parents.
Provides a resource room for parents.
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Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Skills Classes
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
Special Education
Parenting Skills Classes
Parent Rights Classes
Disability Related Parenting Programs
Education Advocacy Groups
Disability Rights Groups
People Place offers family programming for parents of children age(s) 0-5 twice a week. Parents are welcome to bring their children and drop them off in our child care room, while they either take a break in the parent room, attend one of our guest speakers, or chat with our parent educators or other parents about child development. A nightly parenting class is also offered during the fall and spring that meets DHS requirements.
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Parenting Skills Classes
Parent Support Groups
Foster care and emergency foster care. Respite care for children in foster care or with natural parents. Home studies for prospective foster and relative placements for children.
Family Support / Community Treatment Aide helps parents create a healthy and positive home environment. Ensures proper care, safety and guidance of children, creates alternative support systems, and achieves self-sufficiency. Specialists usually meet with parent, youth or the entire family in their home, school or community setting to provide education, assistance, crisis intervention and support.
Parent Assist Service assists parents with 'at risk' youth by educating them on how to set rules, expectations and consequences and by providing them with information to additional resources.
Parent education classes.
Drug testing.
Family Support / Community Treatment Aide helps parents create a healthy and positive home environment. Ensures proper care, safety and guidance of children, creates alternative support systems, and achieves self-sufficiency. Specialists usually meet with parent, youth or the entire family in their home, school or community setting to provide education, assistance, crisis intervention and support.
Parent Assist Service assists parents with 'at risk' youth by educating them on how to set rules, expectations and consequences and by providing them with information to additional resources.
Parent education classes.
Drug testing.
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Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Parenting Skills Classes
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Home Based Parenting Education
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
All Parenting Classes are offered as follows:
Family Parenting Classes
Group
Individual
Classes can also be offered in the privacy of client's home or within the community.
Wraparound supportive services for individuals and families.
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Parenting Skills Classes
Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
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Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials
Parenting Skills Classes
Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
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Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials
Parenting Skills Classes
Goal is to have a central point of coordinated intake for Black Hawk County and surrounding communities.
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Parenting Skills Classes
Provides accurate information on adoption, and lifelong support, so the family is successful in meeting the child's best interest by offering the following services and resources:
Provides free and confidential pregnancy counseling for families, every step of the way; before, during, and after the birth of the child.
Assistance with making an adoption plan or parenting plan.
Parenting education.
Support and education for baby's father on request.
Home studies for prospective adoptive parents.
Newborn care home for baby as a safe haven.
Provides free and confidential pregnancy counseling for families, every step of the way; before, during, and after the birth of the child.
Assistance with making an adoption plan or parenting plan.
Parenting education.
Support and education for baby's father on request.
Home studies for prospective adoptive parents.
Newborn care home for baby as a safe haven.
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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parenting Skills Classes
Crisis Pregnancy Hotlines
Adoption Services
Pregnancy Counseling
Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.
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Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials
Parenting Skills Classes
Offers parenting support and education for women and men.
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Parenting Skills Classes
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Self-Sufficiency - The self-sufficiency program provides voluntary home visitation services to parents and kinship caregivers. The program provides flexible one-on-one services to help clients make progress towards personal goals and access resources to meet identified needs.
Home Visiting Services - The Healthy Families America program serves low-income pregnant women, age 19 and older, living in Douglas County, while the Young Parent Support Program serves pregnant and parenting teens, and young adults ages 25 and younger, residing anywhere within the Omaha-metro area, including Bellevue and Council Bluffs.
Within the home visitation programs, a trained Family Resource Specialist (FRS) provides weekly home visits where parents learn about the development of their child, from before birth through their fifth birthday. The specialist will also support each family's goals and connect them with resources in the community to meet their needs.
Home Visiting Services - The Healthy Families America program serves low-income pregnant women, age 19 and older, living in Douglas County, while the Young Parent Support Program serves pregnant and parenting teens, and young adults ages 25 and younger, residing anywhere within the Omaha-metro area, including Bellevue and Council Bluffs.
Within the home visitation programs, a trained Family Resource Specialist (FRS) provides weekly home visits where parents learn about the development of their child, from before birth through their fifth birthday. The specialist will also support each family's goals and connect them with resources in the community to meet their needs.
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Parenting Skills Classes
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education