Offers trained navigators who work one-on-one with parents over an extended period. Help provided can include help contacting organizations, filling out forms, follow-up with organizations on behalf of the clients, supportive check-ins and more. "Connects families to agencies that provide the following types of services: - healthy pregnancy - postpartum support - lactation consultation - parenting education/skill building - child development - peer support and networking - behavioral health for parent or child - diapers, clothes, furniture - public benefits access - and connection to developmental screening.

Staff is available by phone 24 hours a day to assist parents who are feeling overwhelmed or stressed out.

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.

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.  

Offers state certified Domestic Violence Intervention Treatment (DVIT), and Anger management assessments and therapy programs. Offers referrals for advocacy on victim’s issues. Provides services via Zoom.

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.

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. Separate mentoring available for mothers and fathers. Classes meet court requirements. Topics 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 seats and cribs. Limited one-time assistance provided for non-participants.

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.

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).

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. Separate mentoring available for mothers and fathers. Classes meet court requirements. Topics 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 seats and cribs. Limited one-time assistance provided for non-participants.

Operates a parenting help line where live coaches provide education, supportive listening, and help finding additional assistance via telephone, email, or zoom. Offers referrals for parenting classes (including court ordered), support groups and family resources such as IEPs, parenting plans, family friendly activities, and more.   Provides an online statewide searchable database of classes, groups and resources. Recorded resource line available after hours.

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.

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.

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.

Offers the Parent-Child Plus Program, which is a home visiting literacy program for children, age 2, and their parents.

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.

Provides short-term crisis counseling, referral to local resources, and emergency intervention for youth and parents through a national hotline. Problems routinely dealt with include, but are not limited to, family conflicts, suicide, pregnancy, abuse, running away from home and alcohol/drug addictions.

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.

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.

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.

Helps caregivers find resources, training, mentoring and other help. Support line is answered by experienced caregivers and volunteer board members.

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.

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. Separate mentoring available for mothers and fathers. Classes meet court requirements. Topics 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 seats and cribs. Limited one-time assistance provided for non-participants.

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.  

Offers education to parents about the reasons a baby may cry, especially covering the time period that babies are likely to cry for no easy-to-understand reason. Pierce County parents are offered this information when they leave the hospital with their newborn, but it can be helpful to have reminders of it, or provide it to those who are helping with the child. Purpose of the program is to prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome.