1-25 of 37
Helps parents of children with special needs by assessing children's needs, educating and counseling parents.
Offers support to families for a range of health problems, including premature infants, children with autism and teens with diabetes. Staff assess children's needs, educate and counsel parents, and link families to health care and community resources.
Local coordinators connect families to resources such as insurance, early intervention, disability related services such as therapies and other specialty services.
Categories
Specialized Information and Referral
Case/Care Management
Parenting Helplines
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.
Categories
Parenting Skills Classes
Child Development Classes
Operates a hotline that provides short-term crisis counseling, resource referral and emergency intervention to teens and their parents.
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.
Categories
Youth Issues Information Services
Runaway/Homeless Youth Helplines
Parenting Helplines
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.
Categories
Bereaved Parent Support Groups
New Dad Parenting Programs
Bereavement and Grief Counseling
Hearing Screening
Childbirth Education
CPR Instruction
Pro-Choice Pregnancy Counseling
Child Development Classes
Child Passenger Safety Education
Breastfeeding Support Programs
General Bereavement and Grief Support Groups
Teen 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.
Categories
Parenting Skills Classes
Disability Related Parenting Programs
Health/Disability Related Social Clubs
Parent to Parent Networking
Parent Support Groups
Youth Enrichment Programs
Social Skills Training
Child Development Classes
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.
Support group network provides breastfeeding and chestfeeding information and assistance in Southwest Washington. 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.
Categories
Parenting Helplines
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups
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.
Categories
Parenting Skills Classes
Court Ordered Parenting Programs
Child Development Classes
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.
Categories
Peer Counseling
Crisis Pregnancy Hotlines
Pro-Choice Pregnancy Counseling
Abortion Referrals
Specialized Information and Referral
Parenting Helplines
Pre-Abortion Counseling
Postabortion Counseling
Talklines/Warmlines
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.
Categories
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parenting Skills Classes
Formula/Baby Food
Diapers
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
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.
Categories
Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Treatment
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.
Categories
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Neonatal Care
Outreach Programs
Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Postpartum Care
Child Development Classes
Prenatal Care
Specialized Information and Referral
Pediatric Home Nursing
Home Based Parenting Education
Provides crisis intervention through emotional support, information and referral for parents of children with learning disabilities and adults with learning disabilities.
Provides information, emotional support and professional referrals for parents of children with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders, as well as adults experiencing learning disabilities and related conditions.
Categories
Specialized Information and Referral
Parent to Parent Networking
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.
Categories
Childbirth Education
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Parenting Helplines
Delivery/Childbirth
Support group network provides breastfeeding information and assistance in Eastern Washington. Volunteers are available to provide 24-hour information and counseling on breastfeeding and mothering.
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.
Categories
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups
Parenting Helplines
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).
Categories
Parenting Helplines
Parent Counseling
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.
Categories
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Court Ordered Parenting Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
Parenting Materials
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.
Categories
Benefits Screening
Parenting Helplines
Early Identification Programs
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.
Categories
Parenting Skills Classes
Pregnancy Testing
Diapers
Child Development Classes
Formula/Baby Food
Postabortion Support Groups
Pre-Abortion Counseling
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.
Categories
New Dad Parenting Programs
Child Development Classes
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.
Categories
Parenting Skills Classes
Child Development Classes
Provides age appropriate information for parents of children birth to age five relating to cognitive and social/emotional skills needed to prepare a child to enter kindergarten.
Provides age appropriate information for parents of children birth to age five relating to cognitive and social/emotional skills needed to prepare a child to enter kindergarten.
Provides kindergarten readiness seminars for parents of children birth to age five.
Categories
Parenting Skills Classes
Early Literacy Development Programs
School Readiness Programs
Child Development Classes
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.
Categories
Child Development Classes
Diapers
Formula/Baby Food
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parenting Skills Classes
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
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.
Categories
Child Development Classes
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Life Skills Education
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. Purpose is to help parents/caregivers, and to help prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome.
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.
Categories
Child Development Classes
Parenting Materials