Demonstrating Effective Parenting Skills

This workshop provides parent partners with resources and techniques to promote effective parenting skills to child welfare clients.

Topics include:

  • Time management for parents
  • Parenting with the parent in crisis
  • Alternative discipline methods—timeouts, consequences, privileges
  • Realistic expectations for a child’s level of development
  • Creating and implementing household rules and structure
  • Budget and menu planning
  • Play and interaction with children
  • Forming and using a support system
  • Problem solving

Participants learn skills necessary to guide clients toward parenting methods that improve the safety of the children and the quality of parent-child relationships.

Course Code
500470