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:

• A sixteen week class that follows the curriculum from the Colorado Office of Behavioral Health.
  Taking Ownership: How My Behaviors Affect Others:
• This six week class focusing on client behaviors have a ripple effect that touches all parts of their lives to include
  family, friends and their jobs.
  – Topics covered in this course include The Effects of Drug Use on Family Members; Family Patterns in Abuse; Secrets and Shame; The Importance of Treatment; Preventing Relapse; and Recovery.