HELPING CREATE HAPPY, HEALTHY COLORADO FAMILIES

Our classes are covered by Medicaid and many of our community partners. Reach out through our inquiry form if you have questions on funding.

Parenting Classes:


Active Parenting 0-4

  • This program is four weeks long and focuses on a child’s first five years of life.
  • Topics include: Ages and Stages of development; Preventing Problems; Encouraging Positive Behavior and Preparing
    for School Success.

Active Parenting 5-12

  • This program is six weeks long and focuses on a child’s next stage of life.
  • Topics include: The Active Parent; Cooperation and Communication; Responsibility and Discipline; Building Courage and Self-Esteem; Understanding and Redirecting Misbehavior; Active Parenting for School Success.

Active Parenting of Teens

  • This program is six weeks long and focuses on helping parents navigate the teen years.
  • Topics include: The Active Parent; Winning Cooperation; Responsibility and Discipline; Building Courage and Redirecting Misbehavior; Drugs, Sexuality and Violence: Reducing the Risks Part I and II.

Protective Parenting

  • This program is 6 weeks long that educates parents as to their protective capacities.
  • This program’s objectives are to increase protectiveness with education and support; learn from the past, do something
    with the present and prepare for an improved future; decrease resistance to engagement in case plan; increase parental skills to protect and nurture children; increase ability to plan for future risks and stressors; increase awareness of current and past risk factors; increasing understanding of the roots of parenting choices; increasing empathy for own parents, self, and child; increased awareness of perspective and feelings of the child; increased knowledge of victim behaviors and characteristics of offenders.

Cooperative Parenting (Co-Parenting)

  • This program is an 8 week long class that helps learn to co-parent effectively and is child focused.
  • Topics include: Child Focused or Out of Focus; Plan for Peace or Tug of War; Letting Go or Holding On; Make it
    Better or Keep it Bitter; Neither Fight Nor Take Flight; Defuse or Light the Fuse; All a Winner or Winner Take All;
    and Cooperation or Conflict.

Additional Community Education Programs:


Life Skills Development Academy:

  • The academy is designed for both teens preparing to venture into adulthood and adults who need some guidance to begin a budget, employment and other financial and other goals.
  • Our four week academy is organized to follow three categories: Basic Necessities, Goals and Hinderances.
    -Basic Necessities the focus is on how to obtain vital records, employment and education; budgeting; banking, and
    credit.
    – Goals focuses on goals and time management; housing, cars, car maintenance, values, healthy relationships, impulse
    control and coping skills; empathy; taking ownership and discovering better choices.
    -Our final category discusses Hindrances, or what prevents one from obtaining their goals. Bullying, theft, the dangers
    of social media, gang awareness, substance abuse and teen pregnancy/STDs are featured.

Cognitive Thinking:

Taking Ownership:

  • This 6 week long class focusing on client behaviors that have a ripple effects that touches all parts of their lives, to include family, friends, and their jobs.
  • Topics covered in this course include The Effect of Drug Use on Family Members; Family Patterns in Abuse; Secrets and Shame; The Importance of Treatment; Preventing Relapse; and Recovery.
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