Parents are invited to take part in the Parent Project program that is designed to help children grow into safe and capable adults.
For the last several years, the City of Mission Viejo has offered the 10-week program that was created for parents with difficult or out-of-control adolescent children. Developed over a 20-year-period, the curriculum helps parents learn and practice specific prevention and intervention strategies for defiant actions or destructive behaviors such as truancy, alcohol and drug use, gangs, running away, violence and other issues. Parents will learn proven tools and tactics to deal with poor grades, online gaming addictions and they’ll learn to understand teens and their use of technology.
Mission Viejo Deputy Sheriff’s, including several of the School Resource Officers, receive 40 hours of training to facilitate the program, which caters to parents with kids in different stages of life. Deputies teaching the program can address every issue parents may have with their children to help them build better relationships.
The first six classes of the 10-week program take place on Tuesdays from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., with the rest ending an hour earlier through April 3rd at the Norman P. Murray Community and Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way. The Parent Project runs from January 24 to April 3 (Valentine’s Day is excluded).
Cost is $20. Space is limited, so register today by calling 949-470-8433. For more information about this beneficial program, visit www.parentproject.com.
I’m 65 years old and I need HELP dealing w/ my 50 yr old sister who still throws 6 yr old tantrums and hangs up. If I ask her a question she stonewalls with “Don’t psycoanalize me”. Do you have a class/workshop to address communication in the dysfunctional family?