PARENTING
Danville-Pittsylvania Community Services Prevention Services offers a variety of parenting opportunities to meet the families' needs. Parenting can be one of the hardest jobs you will ever have. Children don't come with instructions and no two children are alike. Changes to the family, such as becoming a blended family or becoming a co-parent, can add new challenges. Let us help! Our parenting classes and one on one parenting education will give you the tools and resources to navigate parenting your children through all the developmental stages.
To register for any of the parenting classes listed below, contact Support Services.
Parenting Wisely
This parenting skills education program is designed to facilitate learning the necessary skills to raise healthy well balanced children from ages 3 to 18. The program is proven to reduce problem behaviors, increase communication and family unity. Parenting Wisely is an evidence-based program, evaluated and proven to work.
Parenting Education
These sessions are developed based on individual needs and are arranged at a time convenient to the parent. A prevention staff member works with each parent individually to review material covered in the lessons and to answer questions. The program consists of a minimum of 4 sessions.
Co-Parenting: Two Parents, Two Homes
A parenting education program for families going through a divorce and separation. This class meets the parent education guidelines developed by the Supreme Court of Virginia. This program helps parents focus on the responsibilities of parenting from separate households while keeping children out of the middle as the parents negotiate custody, visitation, child support, or divorce. This program is four hours taught in two 2 hour sessions.
Inside Out Dad
This evidence-based fatherhood program is designed specifically for incarcerated fathers. The program connects inmate fathers to their families, helping to improve behavior while still incarcerated and to break the cycle of recidivism by developing pro-fathering attitudes, knowledge, and skills, along with strategies to prepare fathers for release. Incarcerated fathers get the tools they need to become more involved, responsible, and committed in the lives of their children - providing increased motivation for them to get out and stay out. Program consists of ten one-hour sessions.