The Nest Center for Women Children and Families

Parenting classes

The Self-Help Parent Program provides families with skills and support to prevent and recover from family violence, abuse and neglect, as well as to promote positive family communication, increase family self-care and build family strengths.

You can attend parenting classes if:

You are a parent or guardian of a child
You are interested in learning about how to be a better parent
You are willing to promptly attend 12 sessions and make up absences with individual sessions
You are referred by the Department of Community Based Services, Court, Adult and Youth Probation and Court Designated Workers, other community agencies or yourself
You are willing to take the Post Test and Parenting Survey
You agree to avoid violent or verbally abusive behaviors in the classroom
You agree to keep class conversations confidential.

Parenting classes cover topics such as:

Nurturing
Children's brain development
Developing empathy
Understanding our feelings
Building self-worth
Family morals, values and rules
Understanding discipline
Developing children's sexual self worth
Handling stress
Handling anger
Trusting relationships

The Self-Help Parenting Program provides short term, crisis oriented, solution-focused individual counseling to address the following:

Partner relationship issues
Parent-child-adolescent relationship issues
Family stress
Conflict resolution/problem solving
Grief
Divorce, separation, co-parenting
Strengthening families already in recovery from substance abuse
Adjustment issues
Life transition issues
Developing life skills
Goal setting

If The Nest parenting classes do not meet fit into your schedule, check out these other parenting resources in Lexington:

SKY Families offers parenting classes in Lexington. For information, contact Marion Gibson, 502-257-5582.

Staff: Carol Taylor, MSW
859.259.1974
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This project is funded, in part, under a contract with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services through Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky using state funds allocated by the Kentucky General Assembly.