Dawson County
Healthy Communities
“Promote and ensure a healthy sustainable community.”
Parent Resource Center News
A project of
the Montana Children’s Trust Fund
February 2008
Please call 377-7515 or email weparent@midrivers.com to register
Our
Progress:
When the Children’s Trust
Fund rightly required more local progress information due to general tightening
up of budgets consistent with eastern wars, our impact accountability was
remarkable.
We found that last
quarter we had provided direct parent coaching to 162 adults and children with
an indirect impact on 239 children. Doing this ½ time, we found that last year
we provided 446 parenting services to 840 participants last year.
Looking
to learn more about parenting? Take Classes—Get DCC
Credits!
It is not too late to
join in a parenting class or a supportive meeting:
o
Every Wednesday evening—ongoing parenting
classes from 6:30-8:00 p.m. with open enrollment and college credits.
o
1st Monday noon meetings for Kinship Care/Grandparents
Raising Grandkids.
o
3rd Monday noon for anyone parenting or
foster-parenting a disabled/SED child.
o
Last Monday each month at
10:30 am “Baby
& Me” a special
Newborn Nurturing program for newborns.
o
Tuesday’s after-story-time program
for Dads and Moms of newborns through preschool aged children with monthly crafts,
parenting info, and a shared meal.
o
Thursday and Saturday etc.
coaching and parent strategic training sessions.
o
Parenting Teens 1-6 pm on May
10th
New
Resources
|
The Mother’s
Almanac—Book by Kelly & Parsons The Relationship
Cure—Book by Gottman & DeClaire Infants &
Mothers—Book by Brazelton, MD The Family—Book by
John Bradshaw Special Needs Reading
List—Guide Book by Sweeney |
Parenting
Classes Starting this Spring:
MARCH 12th we will start a six
session Becoming a Love & Logic Parent for parents of
children age 3-18.
APRIL 23rd Active Parenting 1234 – 2
meetings
MAY 7th Active Parenting in 3
New:
Anger Management for Parents
Our friends at MSU
Extension in Bozeman have loaned us a very focused curriculum we are now using
with our parent support group to help reduce parental frustration. We meet the
3rd Monday of each month from 12:30 to 1:00 pm.
We hope newcomers will
join us!
The curriculum itself
uses the RETHINK method of anger management for parents to apply specifically
to all the challenges that children present their parents from Infancy to
Eighteen.
After exploring anger
factors in general, its causes and triggers, and teaching the RETHINK strategy
for management, there is specific application of factors, triggers and
appropriate responses to each for eight or more common trigger situations and
development issues for Infancy 0-1, Toddler Stage 2-3, Preschool 4-5, Middle
Childhood 6-11, Adolescence 12-18.
Each exploration of
age-related issues is followed with role-play practice of appropriate responses
to common age-specific problems.
Baby
& Me—Nurturing Newborns
The last Monday of each
month we have a very special time when parents and children from birth to one
year of age come together for parenting information and weights & measures
from 10:30 until 11:30 a.m. Newcomers are
very welcome!