Family Stability
Our Focus
All across America, parents face challenges when raising children. Even for the most equipped families it can be a stressful job. Families at risk face a myriad of challenges — poverty, lack of education, isolation, etc. — that can diminish their ability to support their children effectively.
Our Goals
- Increase and enhance the capacity of parents and caregivers to strengthen their knowledge, skills and behavior
- Increase positive parenting practices with respect to cultural difference
- Reduce percentage of parents and children with substantiated child abuse reports
- Increase percentage of children exhibiting age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate physical, emotional, social and cognitive development
- Increase number of mothers screened and referred for appropriate services
- Increase number of children receiving screening and referral to appropriate care settings, to include those with special needs
Our Strategy
Parent Education
Parenting programs help strengthen parents’ education and increase their support systems and resources, which help them to understand their child’s developmental needs and leads to appropriate nurturing and guidance.
Home Visitation
Home visitation empowers parents with the guidance, knowledge and tools to create a bright beginning for their child. By the age of three, most of a child's physical, intellectual and emotional development is well underway. Everything a parent does has a lasting effect on the child's success, including the child's readiness to start school.
There are so many qualified programs and agencies in our community and we welcome the opportunity to partner together. Please contact us to join our Success By 6 efforts.
Home Visitation
First Visitor at Peak Vista: A free volunteer home visitation program designed to celebrate the birth and growth of every child and to provide new parents with emotional support, a network of community-based resources and basic information on child health, nutrition, safety and early development during the critical first 3 years.
Parent Education
Nurturing Parent Program: Stops the intergenerational cycle of child abuse in families by building nurturing parenting skills; reduce the rate of recidivism in families receiving social services; reduce the rate of juvenile delinquency among high-risk youth; reduce the rate of alcohol abuse in high-risk families; lower the rate of multiple pregnancies among teenage girls.
Parent Education
Parenting Matters:Five year effort to build community capacity for parent education and involvement through the creation, development and implementation of research/evidence- based parent education programs, such as: Strengthening Families, Making Parenting a Pleasure, BrainWise, Partners in Parenting and Grandparents Raising Grandchildren trainings & a parent education resource clearing house.
Parent Education
The Prenatal Program: Group-based program that when necessary, can be tailored to individual sessions. Parents learn how to: bond with their baby, nurture themselves and their baby, prevent drug-related birth defects, handle stress and anger, develop non-hitting attitudes, use infant massage, adjust to being pregnant, understand ages and stages of infant development, deal with physical and emotional changes.
Parent Education
Centro de la Familia: A 10-week parenting class for Spanish-speaking families that teaches culturally appropriate techniques for becoming a positive and nurturing parent as well as alternatives to physical discipline. Children participate in age-appropriate activities and learn the same concepts as parents.
Home Visitation
Colorado Bright Beginnings: Colorado Bright Beginnings' programs are free for all Colorado parents and are available in both English and Spanish. Parents are given a bag of valuable books and materials that help educate and support them as parents. Programs are focused on the parents and their needs by creating an interactive visit experience. Visitors personalize the discussion and provide parents with resources and tools that support their individualized parenting questions and concerns.
Volunteers and staff meet with parents at home, at work, in groups or at any community setting of their choice. Often, Colorado Bright Beginnings partners with community agencies to offer programs to parents.
Parent Education and Home Visitation
Community Partnership for Child Development:Incredible Years provides cost effective comprehensive approach to supporting the healthy development of young children, engaging parents in their children's education and strengthening teachers' skills. Three distinct programs that work together: Skill Building for Children, Parents and Teachers.
Early Head Start provides comprehensive services for pregnant women and children 0 – 3 who are living in poverty to promote child development, bonding and attachment, health education, family support and parent education.
Join Our Email List
