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Staff is available by phone 24 hours a day to assist parents who are feeling overwhelmed or stressed out.
Staff is available by phone 24 hours a day to assist parents who are feeling overwhelmed or stressed out.
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Parenting Helplines
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.
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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Childbirth Education
Parenting Helplines
Delivery/Childbirth
Breastfeeding Support Programs
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
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.
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Youth Issues Information Services
Parenting Helplines
Runaway/Homeless Youth 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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Child Development Classes
Specialized Information and Referral
Home Based Parenting Education
Postpartum Care
Prenatal Care
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Outreach Programs
Pediatric Home Nursing
Neonatal Care
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
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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General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parenting Skills Classes
Driving Safety Education
General First Aid Instruction
CPR Instruction
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
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
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parenting Helplines
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Newborn Screening
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
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 Helplines
Specialized Information and Referral
Parenting Materials
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
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.
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Specialized Information and Referral
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Case/Care Management
Parenting Helplines
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
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.
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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Formula/Baby Food
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Diapers
Child Development Classes
Parenting Skills Classes
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
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 Materials
Child Development Classes
Court Ordered Parenting Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
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.
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Parenting Materials
Child Development Classes
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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Breastfeeding Support Programs
General Bereavement and Grief Support Groups
Pro-Choice Pregnancy Counseling
Hearing Screening
Bereaved Parent Support Groups
Childbirth Education
Child Passenger Safety Education
New Dad Parenting Programs
Teen Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
CPR Instruction
Bereavement and Grief Counseling
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
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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Parenting Skills Classes
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.
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Child Development Classes
Parenting Skills Classes
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.
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Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Parenting Helplines
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.
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Parenting Helplines
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups
Statewide phone line provides supportive listening, parenting education, assistance with finding support, advocacy and referrals for parenting classes, support groups and family resources. Maintains an online resource database.
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.
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Parenting Helplines
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