Montanans for children, youth and families

“Keeping Montana Forever Family Friendly”

Family Center News   September 2011

Family Center Now Open                                         313 W Valentine #105

Week Days by Appointment                                                                   Glendive, MT 59330

Classes: Mondays at 12 p.m., Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m.          

To enroll please call 939-5591 or email families@midrivers.com

 

BRAND NEW SERVICES THIS FALL!

Usual Services That Continue:

Be assured, our regular, ongoing, free services continue!

·        Monday noon Parent’s Group

·        Wednesday 6:30 PM Parenting class

·        Free class time K-Ready

·        Couple’s training

·        Parenting strategy meetings

·        Saturday services

·        Free loaning library

 

1234 Parents! by Active Parenting:

Open Enrollment

Free: This popular Parenting Class is for those with children age birth to four in either family or foster care. Held Wednesday evenings and taught by Pete Bruno starting September 7th through September 28th. Concurrent school readiness activities provided—contact Pete to register or you may register through Facebook.

 

New Services:

Active Parenting Facilitator Training

On October 27th - 28th we will provide Active Parenting training for facilitators to be certified to lead AP Now (parents of 5-12 year-olds, AP Teens 3rd parents of tweens and teens, and AP 1234 for toddlers. Please contact Pete or:

http://www.activeparenting.com/product/glendive_leader_training

or http://www.activeparenting.com/product/glendive_leader_training_october_28

 

11th Annual Prepare/Enrich

It just takes one to set the date! Come to Glendive on a day of your choice which we will offer to other counselors and pastors!

9 Essential Skills for Love & Logic Class for Churches and Schools

For over 30 years 9 core Love & Logic principles have been successfully used in the classroom setting in 34 applications. Now, for the second time in eastern Montana, administrators, teachers and volunteers can inexpensively learn these skills—maximum charge for book and college credit is $71.50, workbook alone $13.50. Training will be held October 20-21 in Glendive. Email families@midrivers.com  for more information, or call 406-939-5591.

 

Creating Workplaces That THRIVE

Brand new to eastern Montana, the official US DPHHS SAMHSA curriculum on how to help the 38% of employees who annually experience a mental health episode on the job through strong policies and successful supervisor strategies, are offered business by business as arranged one corporation at a time—important for any with 15 or more employees.

 

Adoption Resource:

As we’ve geared up to help Grandparents help RAD (reactive attachment disorder) kids, it turns out the experts recommend parenting books for parents who have adopted—makes sense once you consider the dynamics of RAD. So both our loaning library AND our Monday noon parenting group has become very adopting family friendly as we study RAD together.

 

Loaning Library EXPANDED

All summer we’ve been adding more books, CDs and DVDs for parents, grandparents and teachers to our library. Next issue we’ll list them as space permits! Meanwhile, come browse!