Parent/Family Education

Provides a variety of parenting skills classes for the community. Accepts court orders.<br />&nbsp;

Provides educational course were parents learn how to understand and treat children. Classes are court approved. *Due to COVID 19 only one-on-one services available, no groups.&nbsp;

Offer safe sleep practice, information on the impact of sudden infant death syndrome and pack and play set-up instructions. Pack and play is given to parent.

Offers 2 hours/week of parent/child reading and family art and science activities modeling literacy-building behaviors and techniques that parents can use with their children every day. No cost books to build home libraries and school backpacks distributed in July.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>**Temporary hours due to the pandemic: Monday through Thursday 8am until 4:30pm and Friday 8am until 2pm.</em>

Offers a home based parenting for parents of preschoolers. Parents are provided curriculum, books, and materials to strengthen their child’s cognitive, social/emotional, and physical development to achieve lifelong success.

Personalized health education and support for pregnant moms and mothers with children up to 12 months old. In home visits by nurse.

Supports pregnant woman and new moms who are struggling with opioid use disorder.&nbsp; Community resources include medication assisted treatment, case management, OB/GYN, parenting classes, therapy, family support, and additional education.

Bright by Text provides free activities, games, and resources in the form of text message. This program offers parents and caregivers expert tips and resources via text for children up to the age of five years old, including positive parenting tips and information about the child(ren)'s physical development.

• Parenting Helplines

The Children’s Reading Foundation focuses on engaging parents and caregivers in a child’s learning, beginning from birth. Our early literacy and learning programs and campaigns provide families, schools and communities the knowledge, tools and skills necessary to ensure every child has the strongest literacy and learning beginning to thrive in school and life.

These evidence-based, proven literacy and early learning campaigns and programs are at work across the United States and in Canada, and growing. They are modeled to be replicated and adapted to meet the needs of the communities served, including families in poverty and non-English-speaking families.

Tools include:

• Read with a child
• READY! for Kindergarten
• READ Up
• Help Children Succeed

Chapter Directory: Find a local reading foundation chapter or program partner.

Provides teens with knowledge, motivation, and skills to reduce their risk of contracting HIV and sexually transmitted infections, and prevent unplanned pregnancies. Also provides classes to teach parents how to talk to their teens about sex.

Provides support, resources, open discussion, education about blindness, and scholarship opportunities for vision impaired. Meets at Las Vegas Senior Center on the 3rd Wednesday of each month.

Provides a variety of parenting skills classes for the community. Accepts court orders.

Provides parenting classes and support, diapers, baby items, and emergency toiletries.

Hands-on parent training uses an original handbook to help parents identify their potential diminished emotional, behavioral, and cognitive caregiver protective capacities.&nbsp; Once identified the PT works with the parent to enhance those areas through practice and worksheets.&nbsp;

Offers parent advocacy and support groups that provide information about positive parenting skills, parent-child interaction, and optimal child growth and development. Parent Cafe' offers parents an opportunity to support other parents in child development, parenting skills and support group.&nbsp; **<em>Parenting classes, youth classes and parent support groups are suspended pending the Governor's directive for COVID-19.</em>

Provides education on safe sleep practices for baby. At the end of training each participant receives a survival kit and Pack-N-Play crib.&nbsp;

Safe-at-Home with the Department of Family Services.&nbsp; Safety managers work in the homes with parents ensuring that they are not creating impending dangers for their youth.&nbsp; Services may include supervision and monitoring, resource support, or social connection.&nbsp;

A warmline for parents with a fussy or crying baby.

• Parenting Helplines

Hygiene and self care, socialization skills, communication&nbsp;skills, parental education, life skills, household management, safety awareness and planning, organization skills, time management, and transitional living skills.&nbsp;

For parenting and pregnant teen mothers who are between 14-19 years old, have NOT graduated from high school or GED, and are pregnant or parenting their first child. The new model includes a one-on-one coaching component with each of the members, where they will receive a minimum of 60 hours of personalized coaching outside of group, with an emphasis on education navigation and advocacy, to help them beat the national statistics and attain their high school diploma or GED. The group itself has also been revamped to include structured lessons where members will learn social emotional skills, parenting education, and reproductive health education.

This group is for pregnant and parenting people of children 3 years old and younger. The group will focus on parenting skills, peer support and effectively addressing symptoms of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders.&nbsp; Meetings are held via Zoom.

Provides education on safe sleep practices for baby. At the end of training each participant receives a survival kit and Pac-N-Play crib.&nbsp;

Parents Anonymous® Program is an evidence-based family strengthening program utilizing mutual support (the giving and getting of help), parent leadership (seeking solutions and becoming empowered), and shared leadership® (working together) to achieve personal growth, improve family functioning and achieve parental resilience. Programs include local weekly support groups for parents and caregivers and separate programs for children.

National Parent Helpline is available Monday-Friday 10am-7pm PT at 855-427-2736. The Helpline provides emotional support from a trained Advocate to help parents become empowered and a stronger parent.

A registered nurse is partnered with a first time mother who is pregnant less than 28 weeks from pregnancy until her child turns two. Support, education, guidance, and resources are provided at no cost and within the clients home.