Parenting with Love & Logic
(4 sites available)
Taft Elementary
Jan 28 – March 10 (Mondays)
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Mary Ellen Frischmuth & Barbara Kennedy

Cole Elementary
Feb 12 – March 18 (Tuesdays)
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Judy Gordon & Jeanie Ballanti

Hawthorne Elementary
Feb 14 – March 20 (Thursdays)
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Julie Drews & Lora Dawn McKinley

Valley View Elementary
April 2 – May 7 (Wednesdays)
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Joni Graham & Lindsy VanHoosen

A common sense approach to parenting that will give parents practical ideas about setting limits and teaching kids to make responsible choices. Parents will be given ideas and techniques that can be used at home to help kids develop responsibility and problem solving skills.
Fee
Book
Child Care*

S.T.E.P. (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting)
Lowell Elementary
Feb 12 – March 18 (Tuesdays)
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
This class is designed for parents of elementary aged children. Topics to be discussed include: How to develop a positive relationship, problem solving skills, communication, and setting limits.
Fee
Book
Child Care
Janet Cardoza & Linda Hammond

Positive Discipline for Single Parents
Monroe Elementary
March 4 - April 15 (Tuesdays) (no class during spring break, March 25)
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Being a single parent is a tremendous challenge! Positive Discipline parenting skills can help you and your children live and work together happily. Topics to be discussed include coping with feelings, communication, balancing/juggling and other single-parenting skills, creating balance in your life, understanding misbehavior, non-punitive discipline techniques, self-care for parents, and developing a respectful co-parenting relationship.
Fee
Book
Child Care*
Christopher Gibbons & Gayle Hatch

Positive Discipline for Parenting Teens
West Junior High
March 6– April 17 (Thursdays) (no class during spring break, March 27)
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Frustrated with communication and your relationship with your pre-teen or teen? Find out why teens are so different and how you can learn to build your relationship with them.
Topics:
Whose Side Are You On?
How does parenting style help or hurt?
They want to be the boss! (Agreements & Follow Through)
Finding time to be together in a busy world
Teen psychology 101 or What are they thinking?!
Risky Behavior and what you can do about it
Fee
Book
Sue Gorczyca and Alana McHugh

Parent Project
Date & Location: To Be Announced
Designed for parents of strong willed or out-of-control adolescents.
This is a highly structured parenting skills program created to help
parents prevent and intervene in the most destructive of adolescent
behaviors. Will discuss alcohol, drugs, gangs, discipline, school
attendance, and support services.
$25 per family for workbook.
For Further Information about Parent Project, please contact: Drug Free Idaho at 373-5478

The Parenting Challenge
The Parenting Challenge is designed to meet the needs of parents in the workplace and community to address issues in effective prevention of substance abuse, delinquent behavior, and child abuse/neglect behaviors. The goals of the program are to: 1) enrich family relationships, 2) reduce substance abuse and its related problems among the family, and 3) promote healthy environments that build resistance to social and personal dysfunction.
For Further Information about The Parenting Challenge, please contact:
Drug Free Idaho at 373-5478.

Drug Education

Family Survival Training: At-Risk Instruction and Support for Parents:
These classes offer information, practical ideas and support for parents of at-risk teenagers who may or may not already be involved in substance abuse. Focus is on information on drugs and effects of drugs, tips on building student strengths and improving family relationships, and providing support for parents.

Student Survival Training for Junior High and High School Students
Six week closed sessions focus on the physical and emotional effects of drugs, how to develop personal strengths, providing support and self-esteem development.

By administrative referral only.

Books

• Positive Discipline For Single Parents
• Parenting With Love & Logic
• Positive Discipline for Teenagers
• STEP - The Parents Handbook

Books will be available for purchase the first night of class from The Book Shelf. Prices are generally under $20.00.

*Child care - On site child care may be available for children 1 year and older. We are unable to accommodate infants. Please call 854-4103 to confirm availability.

Fee Sliding Scale - there is a fee for all classes based on the following scale: