A free program that matches parents with a trained Parent Educator (PE) who will meet in the parents home or a convenient location like your local library or park. The PE is an experienced person who can answer questions about pregnancy or being a parent and can help connect parents to services for them and their children. Home Visiting, Family Support Program.

Supports pregnant and parenting mothers with alcohol and/or drug use disorders that impede their ability to care for their children and live healthy functioning lives. Helps build and maintain healthy, independent family lives. Assures that children are in a safe and stable homes. Prevents future births of alcohol/drug exposed children. Thurston County is the 12th county in WA state to adopt this case management model.

The Parent‐Child Assistance Program (PCAP) is an award winning, evidence‐informed case management and advocacy model for pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorders. PCAP goals are to help mothers build healthy families and prevent future births of children exposed prenatally to alcohol or drugs. Serving Clallam and Jefferson Counties.

Friends of Youth's Healthy Start program service provides home visiting for pregnant and/or parenting families with children younger than six. Home visitors provide a safe space and meet families while they are at while providing basic supplies, parenting support and information, group activities, development and health screenings, and referral to community resources.

Provides services to families who are pregnant or are caregivers of children birth-4 years of age. Offers: - Case management - Prenatal and childbirth education - Parenting and life skills education - Weekly support group for women and parents - Financial assistance to help maintain stability - Resource referral - Materials support (clothing, diapers, wipes, etc., as available)

Early Head Start services promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of infants and toddlers by providing educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families, including developmental screenings. Services for parents include home visits, parenting classes, parent support and networking. Full day/full year center-based or home-based models are available.

Supports the well-being of families by providing a culturally-tailored early-childhood home visiting program for urban Native American and Alaskan Native children and caregivers in King County.   Provides classes to help teach parents about child development and building a supportive parenting community.

Offers a three-year home visitation and case management program for extremely high-risk substance abusing pregnant and parenting women. Assists mothers in obtaining treatment, maintaining recovery, and resolving the complex problems associated with their substance abuse. Links families with community resources. Helps guarantee the children are in a safe environment and receiving appropriate health care. Mothers are not asked to leave the program if they relapse or experience setbacks.

Assists pregnant and parenting mothers struggling with drug and alcohol abuse in obtaining and maintaining substance use treatment, staying in recovery, and other difficult life circumstances that they may experience as a result of their substance use. Works to assure safe, stable home environments for children and ensuring they are receiving appropriate, timely health care. Connects mothers to community resources in order for them to build and maintain healthy, independent family lives and works to prevent future births of alcohol and drug-affected children.

Provides a 3-year, intensive, home visitation program for mothers who experienced substance use disorder during pregnancy. PCAP helps mothers access services, achieve and maintain recovery, and create a healthy family environment.

Offers an evidence‐based home visitation case management for pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorders. Helps mothers build healthy families and prevent future births of children exposed to alcohol and drugs. Provides clients outreach and engagement, structured goal setting, problem-solving, practical assistance, and consistent coaching. Seeks to help community service providers understand how to work more effectively with this population and works to ensure that clients and families receive needed services. Pregnant and parenting women are enrolled for three years. Clients are not asked to leave the program if they relapse or experience setbacks.

Offers an evidence‐based home visitation case management for pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorders. Helps mothers build healthy families and prevent future births of children exposed to alcohol and drugs. Provides clients outreach and engagement, structured goal setting, problem-solving, practical assistance, and consistent coaching. Seeks to help community service providers understand how to work more effectively with this population and works to ensure that clients and families receive needed services. Pregnant and parenting women are enrolled for three years. Clients are not asked to leave the program if they relapse or experience setbacks.

Provides a variety of services to foster children and their families. Family Time Specialist Provides parent-child, sibling, or transportation only services for children, youth and families (DCYF). Serve and support clients in the following manners: ​ - Develops transportation schedules to transport client(s) to and from family time/sibling visits. ​ - Ensures and maintain the safety and well-being of program participants during visits. - Facilitates engagement between parent(s), and sibling(s) with an atmosphere that supports the parent-child, or relationship between siblings. - Supervise/monitor the family time/sibling visit with the professional working with the family. Family Preservation Services Provides family-focused, behavior-oriented, in-home counseling, and support to youth who are at substantial risk of placement or for children returning to the home from out-of-home care. Services provided include: ​ - Crisis Stabilization –services delivered by Professional Staff that are short-term, acute, and use an active and systematic approach to stabilization. - Engagement – activates aligned with the principles and skills associated with Motivational Interviewing. - Parenting Strategies –helping and teaching parents and caregivers to learn and use the skills they specifically need to safely parent their children. ​ - Family Resources - Engaging families to strengthen parent advocacy, identify personal growth opportunities, and identify accessible and supportive natural supports and community resources that directly support child safety in the home. The Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) Provides professional level services to improve family functioning to promote the child’s or adolescent’s health, safety, well-being, and welfare, supporting the family to remain intact and allow children to remain or return home. The benefits of this program include: - Increased appropriate parenting skills. - Increased appropriate parental discipline and behavior management. - Improved parent-child relationship. - Decreased child behavior problems. Promoting First Relationships Provides early support for infants and toddlers​ up to the age of three years old who have been diagnosed with a physical or mental condition that has a high probability of resulting in developmental delays. Families eligible for this program will receive services to strengthen the following capabilities and skills for their children including: - Cognitive delays. - Physical (fine or gross motor) delays. ​ - Communication (receptive or expressive language) delays. ​ - Social or Emotional delays. - Adaptive delays. In-home Family Therapy and Counseling Services Performed by licensed professionals and are delivered consistent with cognitive behavioral treatment modalities. Therapy and counseling services are focused on the needs of the family as they directly relate to child safety. Benefits of these services include: - Support for a family managing difficult child and teenage behaviors, including monitoring and safety concerns. - Family discipline support for caregivers in monitoring pre/teenage youth. - Support for moderate to high family conflict, youth is displaying some high risk behaviors. - Support with adolescent behavior problems including self-destructive behavior and provoking dangerous reactions in caregiver.

Helps pregnant and newly parenting mothers with substance use disorders get healthy and gain independent family lives. Provides home visitation, support and transportation as part of a three-year program. Helps create personalized goals for success in recovery. Women will not be dropped from the program for relapsing.

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

Provides home-visiting, case management, parenting skills, social activities and access to community resources for pregnant mothers and their families. We enroll prenatal through age 3. Once enrolled, they may continue in the program for 2 years or to Kindergarten entry. Healthy Start Program uses the Parents as Teachers curriculum.

Friends of Youth's Healthy Start program service provides home visiting for pregnant and/or parenting families with children younger than six. Home visitors provide a safe space and meet families while they are at while providing basic supplies, parenting support and information, group activities, development and health screenings, and referral to community resources.

Provides a wide rage of services for children with special and developmental healthcare needs and their families. Integrates physical health, behavior, mental health, and educational services to optimize daily life for the child and family. Provides Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnostic clinic, behavioral and developmental evaluations, cleft lip and palate program, infant and toddler early intervention, medical specialty clinics, nurse family partnership, pediatric dental services, therapy services, speech and language therapy, genetics program, and family support.

The Early Childhood Services at OlyCAP are focused on addressing the needs of families with children age five and younger.  Preschool, early childhood development, child care and family support services are offered at sites throughout Clallam and Jefferson counties.  Children enrolled receive a developmental screening, an individualized learning plan, at least two meals each day and an active learning experience on days they attend the center.  In addition to children services, each family enrolled receives support in accessing medical and dental care for their child, parenting education, home visits and help with finding needed services or resources in the community.  ### Head Start/Early Head Start Head Start and Early Head Start programs promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families.  The program strives to engage parents in their children’s leaning and help them in making progress toward their educational, literacy and employment goals.  Additionally, the Early Head Start program promotes healthy prenatal outcomes, promotes healthy family functioning, and strengthens the development of infants and toddlers.  ### Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) The Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program is a whole-child, family-focused pre-school program designed to help low-income and at-risk children and their families succeed in school and life.  Because of the many factors that affect a child’s learning ability and development, ECEAP has four interactive components.  They are: learning in a pre-school setting, health screening and assistance with follow-up medical and dental care, healthy snacks and meals, and family support including help accessing resources and social service.  ### Clallam County Locations ### #### OlyCAP 228 W. 1st Street, Suite J Port Angeles, WA  98362 (360) 452-4726  #### Sequim Head Start - Sequim 224 N Sequim Ave, Sequim, WA 98382 (360) 582-3709 (360) 582-3705 (Home Based)  #### Forks Early Childhood Education & Assistance Program - Forks 301 S Elderberry Ave, Forks, WA 98331 (360) 374-6262  #### Mount Angeles View Head Start/Early Head Start - Port Angeles 228 W 1st St, Port Angeles, WA 98362 (360) 452-8496  #### Peninsula College Early Head Start - Port Angeles 2319 S Francis St, Port Angeles, WA 98362 (360) 452-1721  ### Jefferson County Locations ### #### Port Townsend Head Start - Port Townsend 1931 Grant St, Port Townsend, WA 98368 (360) 385-0525  #### Port Townsend Early Head Start - Port Townsend 1931 Grant St, Port Townsend, WA 98368 (360) 379-3912  #### Chimacum Head Start - Chimacum 91 West Valley Rd, Room 918, Chimacum, WA 98325 (360) 302-5880

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

Provides child protective services and child welfare services to ensure the health and safety of Skokomish Indian Tribe children.  Services include outreach, community education, support groups and parenting education.

Serves parents who are between the ages of 13 and 24. Provides screening, group activities and one-on-one support. Offered to low income families with children up to the age of 5, and no burden of proof is required to qualify for the program. Services include two in-home visits from a certified parent educator as well as a large monthly gathering at a neutral site where families can interact and learn from each other.

Provides supportive case management, therapeutic parenting education and support, child development assessments and referrals to pregnant and newly parenting women in recovery from substance abuse.

Operates more than 30 Head Start/ECEAP/Early Head Start centers in Spokane County. Provides support for families, encourages parent involvement and coordinates child health care and nutrition. Head Start/ECEAP: Offers full- and partial-day preschool programs for children ages 3-pre-kindergarten. Early Head Start: Child development program provided at the center and in-home for families during pregnancy and those with infants and toddlers up to age 3.