Children and Family Services Parent Education Groups

Incredible Years Parenting Education: Funded by First Things First and several behavioral health Community Service Providers, we provide parenting education groups, throughout Pima County, utilizing the evidence-based Incredible Years curriculum. Through weekly groups, facilitated by behavioral health professionals trained in the model, we support parents of children birth to age six to provide their young children with a strong emotional, social, and academic foundation. Incredible Years is considered one of the highest quality parenting education programs and is repeatedly cited, in a variety of reviews and studies, as the leading evidence-based parental training program.

For more information, please contact: 520-207-7310 x176

Focus on Fathering Parenting Education: Funded by First Things First and several behavioral health Community Service Providers, we provide parenting education groups, specific to fathers throughout Pima County, utilizing the evidence-based Focus on Fathering curriculum. The curriculum is based on a National Parents as Teachers-developed parenting class for fathers of children ages birth to five and covers such areas as child development, reading with your child, parenting without a partner, connecting with your child, ways to play, discipline, choosing child care, self-esteem, siblings and friends, and healthy relationships for father and child.

For more information, please contact: 520-207-7310 x212

New Beginnings Program for Arizona: Funded by Arizona State University, this new program works to help mothers and fathers improve outcomes for children following their parents’ divorce. Parents complete either a 2-week or 10-week training session, delivered by our licensed therapists. Strong research evidence from randomized trials indicates that this model improves a wide range of positive outcomes for children up to 15 years after participation, primarily due to the program’s effect to improve the quality of parenting following divorce, particularly the level of parental warmth and the use of effective discipline. This program began in 2012 and serves parents in Pima and Yuma counties.

For more information, please contact: 520-207-7310 x212