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Provides a variety of parenting classes.
College of Hope provides several parenting classes including what to expect at certain ages, childhood development, positive discipline, parenting your teen, Incredible Years, Incredible Years: Autism, single parenting, and more. Classes may vary.
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Child Development Classes
Parenting Skills Classes
Offers a one-time, four-hour class for expectant fathers through local hospitals. Basic infant care skills are taught by a male instructor. Provides a "hands-on" overview of a baby's basic needs.
Offers a one-time, two-hour class for expectant fathers through local hospitals and parent centers. Basic infant care skills are taught by a male instructor.
Provides a "hands-on" overview of a baby's basic needs, the "things every parent needs to know," and how to build a solid relationship with your child from the very first day.
Includes book A Guide for Expectant Fathers by Bernie Dorsey.
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Child Development Classes
New Dad Parenting Programs
Provides educational classes on various health related issues.
Classes cover topics such as baby care and safety, senior health, childbirth preparation, first aid, CPR, disease management, diabetes education, emergency and safety education, and neurological and movement disorders.
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Child Development Classes
CPR Instruction
Driving Safety Education
Parenting Skills Classes
General First Aid Instruction
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Offers parenting classes for new and expectant parents. Participants earn vouchers they can spend at a baby boutique for items like diapers, formula, clothing. Specialized programs offered for fathers.
Facilitates one-on-one meetings with a parenting mentor, who can help clients set up a class schedule and meet for individual parenting training sessions and encouragement.
Class topics may include:
- Nurturing relationships.
- Safe places
- Healthy start
- Effective education
Clients enrolled and participating in the parenting program may be eligible for additional support.
Participants earn "Care Net Cash" which they can use to shop in the baby boutique, which has items like diapers, formula, clothing and baby furniture including car seat
Limited one-time assistance provided for non-participants.
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General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Formula/Baby Food
Parenting Skills Classes
Child Development Classes
Diapers
Pregnancy tests, limited OB ultrasounds, peer counseling for pregnancy options, baby clothes, food, and diapers.
Free pregnancy testing, ultrasound (for viability), peer counseling, and parenting services. Also has diapers, baby formula, and clothes. This agency is a non-profit Christian organization and doesn't provide or refer for aboration. All services are free and confidential. No insurance needed.
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Postabortion Support Groups
Formula/Baby Food
Pregnancy Testing
Parenting Skills Classes
Child Development Classes
Pre-Abortion Counseling
Diapers
Focuses on children's unique needs prior to separation, during divorce, and in other family residential changes. Required by Kitsap County Superior Court.
This four hour seminar focuses on children’s unique needs prior to separation, during divorce, and in other family residential changes. Learn about developmental stages, the grief process, positive ways to communicate with your child’s other parent and much more. This seminar is approved by the Kitsap County Superior Court for parents involved in divorce, legal separation, or paternity actions. Please visit the Kitsap County Superior Court website to learn more about this court requirement. We do not allow co-parents to attend the same class without additional documentation. Contact the class coordinator to receive the proper paperwork if you and your co-parent wish to attend the same class.
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Court Ordered Parenting Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Child Development Classes
Provides supports to help diffuse parental conflicts which can lead to abduction or abuse.
Provides supports to help diffuse parental conflicts that can lead to abduction or abuse.
Supports can include:
- Crisis intervention
- Parenting skill building
- Information & Referral (which can include: legal, financial).
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Parent Counseling
Parenting Helplines
Assists pregnant women and their support person(s) understand and prepare for the childbirth experience as well as gain knowledge of the options available for their labor, delivery and post-partum experience.
Assists pregnant individuals and their support person(s) understand and prepare for the childbirth experience as well as gain knowledge of the options available for their labor, delivery and post-partum experience. Also provides urgent breastfeeding support and assists with baby feeding concerns.
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Delivery/Childbirth
Childbirth Education
Parenting Helplines
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Provides two types of courses for parents. Includes instruction in child development, family communication and discipline, and providing a quality learning environment for children.
Provides two types of courses for parents.
Includes instruction in child development, family communication and discipline, and providing a quality learning environment for children.
Parent-Child Series:
Parents and children (birth to 4 years old) come to class together once a week for parent education discussion, child-study and developmentally appropriate children's activities.
Provides an array of topics for parents to learn from.
Co-op Preschool Parenting Education:
For families who have joined one of the three affiliated neighborhood preschools.
College instructor assists parents who run the preschool, attends monthly educational seminars and work in the preschool classroom on a rotating basis.
This program is organized through the preschools.
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Child Development Classes
Parenting Skills Classes
Pregnancy supplies include pre-natal vitamins, morning sickness kits, pregnancy pillows, maternity clothing, and pregnancy and parenting books.
Pregnancy supplies include pre-natal vitamins, morning sickness kits, pregnancy pillows, maternity clothing, and pregnancy and parenting books. Staff are available to meet with clients to answer pregnancy and parenting questions or provide referrals to other programs.
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Parenting Materials
Specialized Information and Referral
Parenting Helplines
Support group network provides breastfeeding and chestfeeding information and assistance in North Sound. Volunteers are available to provide 24-hour information and counseling on breastfeeding and parenting.
Provides peer-to-peer breastfeeding and chestfeeding support through phone/email counseling and in monthly group meetings as well as educational materials.
Coordinates a network of volunteers who are available to provide timely, free information and counseling on breastfeeding, chestfeeding, pumping and weaning.
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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Parenting Helplines
Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups
Offers parenting classes and information on parenting skills and child development.
Offers the Parent-Child Plus Program, which is a home visiting literacy program for children, age 2, and their parents.
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Parenting Skills Classes
Child Development Classes
Provides information and referral for family health resources. Service topics include breastfeeding, immunization, child care, child development, early intervention and parent/sibling support.
Provides information and referral for social and health services across Washington state. Service topics include the following:
- Health Insurance and Basic Food screening
- Food Bank Referrals
- Dental Clinic Referrals
- Prenatal care referrals/resources
- Breastfeeding Support
- Immunization Clinics
- Birth Control/Family Planning Clinic referrals
- Child development/Play & Learn Groups
- ASQ (Ages & Stages Questionnaires)
- Parent/sibling support
- Statewide Early intervention
- Parenting Classes
- Baby supplies/Clothing Banks
- Parenting Support/Home visiting programs
Offers expanded referral services for children and youth with special health care needs:
- Parent support
- School support services
- Recreational activities
- Diagnostic services for children with autism
- Social and recreational activities for children with autism
Provides information about specific local programs as well as state program eligibility screening and application assistance.
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Parenting Helplines
Benefits Screening
Early Identification Programs
Provides telephone support for parents working with out-of-control, at-risk or runaway teenagers or problem adult children. Also facilitates online weekly support groups for parents and guardians at four locations.
Provides support for parents, grandparents, adoptive and single parents and guardians of children that are engaging in out-of-control, oppositional and self-destructive behaviors.
Weekly online support groups for parents and guardians
Meetings follow a structured format based on cognitive behavioral principles.
Meetings are ongoing and include an orientation for anyone new to the program.
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Parent Support Groups
Parenting Helplines
The New Parent Support Team (NPST) is a voluntary program for expectant/new Navy parents.
The New Parent Support Team (NPST) is a voluntary program for expectant/new Navy parents. Home visitation is the core service, with a focus on the health needs of infants and toddlers, prenatal and postnatal care, parent education, family/social support, and resources within the community. Services focus on supporting the parent as well as parent-child interaction and child development.
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Neonatal Care
Home Based Parenting Education
Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Specialized Information and Referral
Pediatric Home Nursing
Postpartum Care
Prenatal Care
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
Outreach Programs
Operates a helpline that foster parents licensed by DSHS and relatives authorized to care for dependent children can access when they are in crisis after hours. Callers do not have to identify themselves.
Operates a helpline that foster parents and relative caregivers can access when they are in crisis.
Crisis line workers will be able to listen and offer advice about how to manage children with emotional or behavioral problems.
The support line operates after business hours, when social workers and foster care licensors are not available.
Primarily helps with issues that can’t wait until the next business day. A few examples of problems the social worker answering the phone can help with include:
- Troubleshooting behavioral problems
- What to do in medical or mental health emergencies
- Helping to access resources such as short-term emergency child care.
Callers do not have to identify themselves.
Operates a helpline staffed with veteran caregivers who are familiar with DCYF current policy and practice, to provide comprehensive resource, referral and information sharing.
Helps caregivers find resources, training, mentoring and other help. Support line is answered by experienced caregivers and volunteer board members.
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Parenting Helplines
Coordinates support groups for women with postpartum depression and their families; operates a peer warm line and makes referrals to PPMD treatment professionals and other supportive services.
Coordinates support groups for parents experiencing perinatal mood disorders (PPMD) and their families.
Warm Line offers free 24 hour telephone support for all parents and their family members. The line is staffed by parents who have experienced a perinatal mood and/or anxiety disorder and have recovered fully or licensed therapists with specialized training in perinatal mental health.
Also offers a Dad's line, and help in English and Spanish.
Offers Parent Resilience Specialists for short or long-term support in King or Pierce County.
Provides referrals to health care professionals specializing in the treatment of PPMDs.
Offers telehealth with therapists specializing in the treatment of PMADs.
Maintains an online directory of other programs providing therapy, consultation, assessment and supportive services.
Affiliated with Postpartum Support International.
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Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Treatment
Parenting Helplines
Thriving Heart is an educational resource that coaches the next parenting generation through life-skill classes, focus groups, and workshops with an emphasis on building relationship through community.
Thriving Heart is an educational resource that coaches the next parenting generation through life-skill classes, focus groups, and workshops with an emphasis on building relationship through community.
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Child Development Classes
Life Skills Education
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Works to eliminate barriers for children that have developmental disorder, chronic healthcare needs, and cancer in Pacific Northwest communities.
Works to eliminate barriers for children and young adults, ages 0-Adults, that have a developmental disorder, chronic healthcare needs, or cancer in Pacific Northwest communities. Provides access to resources, parent education, development of programs that encourage play, socializations, support systems, and community collaborations with entities that put children's needs first.
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Health/Disability Related Social Clubs
Youth Enrichment Programs
Parent Support Groups
Parenting Skills Classes
Social Skills Training
Parent to Parent Networking
Disability Related Parenting Programs
Child Development Classes
Offers numerous classes that are based on asset-based activities, support, community awareness, and training.
Offers programs that teach skills that enable parents to deal constructively and consistently with a broad spectrum of child rearing problems which may include sibling rivalry; school behavior and performance; poor self-esteem; shyness; drug use; sexual promiscuity; and the whole range of negative, acting-out behaviors including whining, temper tantrums, disobedience, insolence and destructiveness. Some parenting skills development programs utilize a step-by-step approach for managing specific problems and may incorporate application at home of techniques that were discussed and practiced in the classroom setting. Other programs may offer participatory family workshops which provide opportunities for parents and children to learn and practice methods for dealing with one another under the guidance of a trained facilitator. Most training programs teach the parent a particular way of talking and relating to their children that reinforces positive behaviors and communication and decreases negative behaviors while supporting the development of a relationship that is built on fairness, mutual caring and respect.
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General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parenting Skills Classes
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parenting Materials
Child Development Classes
Court Ordered Parenting Programs
Comprehensive and up-to-date birth and family education.
Provides comprehensive and up-to-date birth and family education at the most affordable price for pregnant women and their families. Program offers a full spectrum of classes covering pregnancy through parenting teens and is taught by certified childbirth educators. Learn what to expect during pregnancy and labor, parenting skills for newborn, young child, or teen, and you'll meet other people experiencing some of the same joys and challenges that go along with being a mom or dad. Support groups are also available.
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CPR Instruction
Child Passenger Safety Education
Childbirth Education
Hearing Screening
Bereaved Parent Support Groups
Child Development Classes
Pro-Choice Pregnancy Counseling
General Bereavement and Grief Support Groups
New Dad Parenting Programs
Bereavement and Grief Counseling
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Provides emotional support and referrals to empower parents and caregivers by promoting parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and child development, and children's social and emotional development.
Provides emotional support and referrals to empower parents and caregivers by promoting parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and child development, and children's social and emotional development. Offers support via online resources and a bulletin board for parents and caregivers to share their experiences and create supportive peer communities.
Offers a confidential space to talk about pregnancy, parenting, abortion, and adoption. Peer Counselors offer judgment-free support at any point before, during, and after pregnancy, regardless of which options the caller is considering.
Offers a confidential space to talk about pregnancy, parenting, abortion, and adoption. Peer Counselors offer judgment-free support at any point before, during, and after pregnancy, regardless of which options the caller is considering.
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Pro-Choice Pregnancy Counseling
Pre-Abortion Counseling
Parenting Helplines
Crisis Pregnancy Hotlines
Peer Counseling
Abortion Referrals
Postabortion Counseling
Talklines/Warmlines
Specialized Information and Referral
Provides assistance for pregnant women, new mothers, and babies. Programs include education, public health nurses, home visits, breastfeeding support, community resources and children with special needs services.
Parent Child Health supports families in Kitsap with multiple programs. Our staff is available to provide referrals and guidance to all pregnant and parenting families in the county in multiple languages. A free, personal nurse for first time, low income mothers. New mothers receive support, education and valuable resources to be the best parent they can be.
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Well Baby Care
Breastfeeding Support Programs
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parenting Helplines
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Newborn Screening
Pediatric Developmental Assessment