NOTE: These programs are listed in alphabetical order by the name of the program. Presence on this list should not be interpreted as an endorsement of any program. Each individual program sponsor, as a service, provides these program descriptions for parents to inform them of parent education opportunities in Spokane County. To learn more about a particular program, please contact the individual program.
This page was last updated: 10/12/2007
Title of
program: A
Positive Approach to Parenting
Date (s) and time
Tuesdays, September 4, 2007 - November 11, 2007; 2:30 - 4:30 PM
Saturdays, September 8, 2007 - November 17, 2007; Noon - 2:00 PM
Registration information.
Vanessa
Behan staff are offering two classes to best meet the needs of parents. Parents can call 535-3155
between 8 am and 4:30 pm, and the receptionist can register the parents for
their preferred class time. The receptionist will also take necessary information.
Pre-registration is required and Vanessa Behan only allows parents to enroll up to the
second class. Class sizes are limited, so parents are encouraged to call early to
enroll.
Age of
children for which parent information applies: Birth
to teens
Description of program
The
curriculum for this 10 week class is based upon Jane Nelson’s Positive
Discipline and Jean Illsley-Clark’s Self Esteem: A Family Affair and Growing
Up Again series. This interactive class will explore such topics as:
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Children’s
developmental stages and how parents can support development
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Proactive strategies
for preventing misbehavior from occurring
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Parenting as we
were parented and how that affects our own parenting style
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How to talk to
children using positive and encouraging words
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Practical,
appropriate techniques to successfully guide behavior
All parenting class instructors have a Master's Degree, and have been teaching classes for a minimum of five years. The instructor's varied backgrounds, experience and diverse training’s allowing them to fully encompass the ranges of materials, scenario’s, and families brought forth in classes. The Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery currently hosts classes from four different instructors.
Location
of program
Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery,
1004 E 8th (corner of 8th and Arthur)
Cost
Sponsoring agency: Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery, Spokane, WA 99208
Childcare
availability
Transportation/Parking
bus route #46 - Altamont (drops off on corner of 9th & Arthur)
Accessibility
Title of program: Boys'
Town Parenting
Date (s) and time
Call for current times and dates
Registration information.
These classes are for active duty members and their families and others who work at Fairchild Air Force Base. To enroll, Call Fairchild Family Advocacy Program at 509.247.2687. Call to register anytime.
Age of children
for which parent information applies: 4 to 18 years
Description of program
The Boys' Town Parenting is a 4-step program, including: Effective Praise,
Preventive Teaching, Corrective Teaching, and Teaching Self-Control. Each one has multiple steps and includes videos demonstrating how each step is used and a manual for practicing.
The program presenter has been facilitating Boys' Town Parenting since 1995 after completing a training at Boys Town. The facilitator has an MSW degree.
Location of program Fairchild Family Advocacy Program
Cost
Sponsoring agency: Fairchild Family Advocacy Program
Stephen Pitters 247-2687
Childcare
availability
Transportation/Parking
Accessibility
Title of program: Can
We Talk?
Date (s) and time Call Stacey Ward 324-1460 for current times and dates.
Registration information.
Open enrollment. To register, call Stacey Ward 324-1460.
Age of children
for which parent information applies: middle school
Description of program
Can We Talk is a workshop designed to help parents enhance their role in their children's sexuality and health education. The creative, interactive, four-part workshop addresses: Parent-child communication, non-confrontational communication, clarifying values, respecting different perspectives, self-esteem, puberty and sexuality, mixed messages, peer pressure, and many more.
Location of program Gary Middle School
Cost
Sponsoring agency: Spokane Regional Health District and 21st Century HUB Program, a program of Gary Middle School
Childcare
availability
Transportation/Parking
Accessibility
Title of program: Circle
of Security Family Seminar
Date (s) and time Saturdays, November 3 and 10, 2007; 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Registration information.
Open enrollment. To register, call Candice Green at 509-455-8722 X208
Age of children
for which parent information applies:
Description of program
Does your child sometimes confuse you?
Ever think “Why does s/he always try to get attention?”
Do you ever feel like you just don’t understand what’s going on in their heads?
Come join us and learn about how your relationship with your child will help overcome problem behaviors.
Location of program Martin Luther King, Jr. Outreach Center, 845 S Sherman, Spokane, WA 99202
(located on lower south hill on the corner of Sherman and 8th Ave.)
Cost
Sponsoring agency: Martin Luther King, Jr. Outreach Center, 845 S Sherman, Spokane, WA 99202
(located on lower south hill on the corner of Sherman and 8th Ave.)
Childcare
availability
Transportation/Parking
Accessibility
Title of program: Courageous Parenting
Date (s) and time Call 509-467-7913 for
current times and dates.
Registration information.
For course
openings and other services, contact the Genesis Institute at 10220 N Nevada, Suite 280,
Spokane, WA 99218, 509-467-7913.
Age of children
for which parent information applies
Description of program
The Courageous
Parenting course is a valuable tool to help support parents and to encourage them to live
out their design. Parents whose children are
mid-elementary through adolescence know their kids face far greater challenges than they
did a few short years ago. Consequently,
parents face greater personal challenges too. Genesis
Institute offers counseling to elementary age kids, adolescents and their parents. They offer a 16 week, parent centered, support
group which goes beyond formulas and superficiality.
This course offers parents a way of thinking through parenting using a biblical
mentoring model that has proven highly effective to promote maturity in your child.
The first eight
weeks focus on what a wise parent needs to understand about their kids. Weeks 9-16 focus on what a wise parent in terms of
skills needs to do with their children and adolescents.
Course topics
include: understanding what lies beneath your
kids behavior; developing five levels of deepened parental influence; what parents of kids
must know to weaken their kids foolishness; what a parent of an adolescent must be to
promote maturity; understanding how our homes shape kids thinking; internal changes in
children and adolescence; responding to the desires and purposes of the adolescent heart;
what a parent can do to promote adolescent maturity; dealing creatively with rebellion in
kids; and developing the kind of relationship with an adolescent that can weather
conflict.
Location of
program
Cost
Sponsoring agency
including contact person and phone number and e-mail if available
Genesis Institute
10220 N Nevada,
Suite 280
Spokane, WA 99208
509-467-7913
Childcare
availability
Transportation/Parking
Accessibility
Title of program: Growing Kids Gods Way
Date (s) and time:
Call for current times and dates.
Registration information :
Call Zion Christian Center 509-489-8073 or Emery and Sue Wold 509-924-6788
Age of children
for which parent information applies
There are 3 separate classes:
Toddler class - 6 weeks
Teenage class - 6 weeks
18 months - 18 years class - 18 weeks
Description of program
Emery and Sue Wold moderate class. They have 31 years of experience in childcare business and have been teaching parenting classes for 20 years off and on. They have used this material for the past six years. Growing Kids God's Way
Location of
program
Maybe at Zion Christian Center, 545 E Wellesley or
Wold home, N 1022 Stout
Cost $25 per couple or $15 for single parents
Sponsoring agency including contact person and phone number and e-mail if available
Zion Christian
Center or Emery's at above numbers
Childcare
availability
Transportation/Parking
Accessibility: Zion Christian Center is wheelchair accessible
Title of program: Parent Skill Building Classes
Dates and time: Call for current times and dates
Registration information.
Register by calling 483-4478
Age of children for which parent information applies
: Infants - Teens
Description of program
Parents and their children gather together at 5:00 PM for pizza and pop. At 5:30, the children go to the childcare center for a literacy project that follows what the parents are discussing in the adult group. Children return to their parents at 6:15 for a sharing time. Dismissal is 6:30 PM.
Location of program
: Northeast Community Center
Cost Free
Sponsoring agency
SPOC of Spokane (Support for Parents Overcoming Challenges) is offering these classes as a part of an ELOA (Early Learning Opportunities Act) . Contact Joy Newcomer, 483-4478 or joy@spocofspokane.org to register.
Childcare availability:
Childcare is for preschool to grade 6. There is no infant care.
Transportation/Parking: Ample parking on site
Accessibility: wheelchair accessible; Come through the front doors of the Center and follow the arrows.
Parenting/Parenting Teenagers
Date (s) and time: Every Monday throughout 2006 - 6:30-7:30 PM
Call to verify holiday classes
Registration
information Open
enrollment; No
registration required.
This eight-session
course can be started at any time.
Age of children
for which parent information applies
Description of program:
This educational
support group for parents is an opportunity to learn parenting principles and specific
situational problem solving using the texts Parenting with Love and Logic and Parenting
Teens with Love and Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay.
Participants will benefit by: helping
their children to become more responsible; empowering them to make their own decisions;
allowing them to live with the natural consequences of their mistakes while showing
empathy for the pain, disappointment, and frustration they will experience.
Presenter: Tom Schmidt,
MEd., LMHC, LMFT, CCDP is a certified Mental Health Counselor and certified Chemical
Dependency Professional with 25 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and
families. He is also trained in family
mediation and domestic violence. Having
received his Masters in Counseling Psychology from Western Carolina University, he is a
PhD candidate at Gonzaga University and has completed his certification from with William
Glasser Institute in Choice Theory and Reality Therapy.
Location of
program: Saint Joseph Family Center
1016 North Superior St
Spokane, WA 99202-2059
Cost: $10
per person/per session
$15 per couple/per session
Sponsoring agency including contact person and phone number and e-mail if available:
Saint Joseph Family Center,
483-6495
e-mail: sjfc@stjosephfamilycenter.org
http://www.stjosephfamilycenter.org/
Childcare
availability
Transportation/Parking
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible
Title
of program: Spokane
Mental Health Parenting with Positive Discipline
Date (s) and time: Call for current dates and times.
Registration information
Family must have at least one person enrolled with an RSN agency. Family's therapist or case manager at the respective agency should call Nancy Jones with referral information at (509)458-7458. Registration is required prior to attending; this is an open group with enrollment occurring at any time during the 10 week session. Socialization groups are offered at the same time for enrolled children ages 3-12.
Age of children for which parent information applies? 0 - 18
Description of program (including background of presenters)
Parenting class focuses on interventions designed to manage the challenging behaviors of children with special needs, such as lying, stealing, and defiance. The classes are tailored to meet the unique needs of the participants as they face the challenges of raising children. Classes are interactive and led by two master level child and family therapists with experience in providing training for parents from a variety of settings. The goal of the class is to empower the participants by developing a series of skills that they identify as important to them.
Location of program:
Spokane Mental Health, Child & Family Building
131 S. Division, Spokane
Cost: Free of charge with medical coupon
Sponsoring agency including contact person and phone number and e-mail if available:
Spokane Mental Health
Contacts: Nancy Jones, MS and Eric Dotson, MS LMHC
Childcare availability: No
Transportation/Parking: SMS will transport; Ample parking on site
Accessibility: Fully accessible
Title
of program: Special
Parenting
Parenting classes for parents of children with special needs by parents of children with special needs
Date (s) and time: Call for up-coming class dates and times
Registration information
Registration is required. To register, contact Lance Morehouse at the ARC of Spokane at 328-6326. Childcare will be provided only for children younger than 13. There is limited availability, on a first come/first served basis. Enrollment after the first class will only be allowed by special permission.
Age of children
for which parent information applies
The information is
geared primarily to parents of minors (children under 21 years of age).
Description of program (including background of presenters)
Classes will cover a variety of issues pertinent to parents with children with special needs. Proposed topics include behavior challenges, IEP's and 504 plans, future planning, stress, siblings' issues, anger management, transitions, community resources, fathers' issues, stress, relationships and more. Facilitators are Joan Cross, JJ Moody, Lance Morehouse, Ken & Kristen Vitale and Carolyn Wright ... all of whom are parents of a child with special needs.
Location of program:
Northeast Community Center; 4001 North Cook Street, Spokane.
Cost
Sponsoring agency including contact person and phone number and e-mail if available:
ARC of Spokane, Lance Morehouse, 328-6326.
lance@spokaneparentcoalition.org
Childcare
availability
Childcare is available, but those needing childcare must register.
Transportation/Parking
There is on-site parking available at the community center. The Northeast Community Center is time point 11 for STA Bus 27.
Accessibility: wheelchair accessible
Title of program: The Strengthening Families Program
for Parents and Youth 10-14
Dates and time: Please call for up-coming class dates and times.
Registration information.
Age of children for which parent information applies
Families with youth ages 10 - 14
Description of program
The Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14 is a family education program developed to enhance the skills of both children and parents. The program meets weekly for seven, two-hour sessions. Family members younger than 10 spend time in supervised care while parents and youth participate in the program.
For the first hour, parents and youth meet separately. The parent program is video-based with discussions and activities. Youth sessions are filled with activities and games. For the second hour, parents join youth in family groups for activities and games. This program is designed to help parents build on their strengths by showing love and setting limits, while youth develop empathy, skills in handling peer pressure and building a positive future. Families grow and have fun together.
Trained facilitators lead the groups. For specific information about facilitator training and individual qualifications, contact Chris Koehler at 477-2169 or koehler@wsu.edu .
Cost Free
Sponsoring agencies
WSU –
Spokane County Cooperative Extension
Childcare availability: On-site child care is available for all classes but registration is required
Transportation/Parking: Ample parking on site
Accessibility: wheelchair accessible