Parent Education Services
Operated under a contract with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) of Alameda County.
Parent Education Services (PES) classes are designed to equip parents with a variety of parenting skills to increase the parent’s capacity to better manage family issues. The program focuses on assisting parents in the development of positive relationships, attitudes and conduct and to learn techniques that promote their child’s development and potential. The main goal of the program is to increase the knowledge, skills, and confidence of parents while reducing the prevalence of mental health, emotional, and behavioral problems in children and adolescents.
Through this series of classes, parents will learn:
Broad parenting interventions
Causes of their child’s behavior problems
How to set goals for their children
Strategies that promote child development
How to manage misbehavior
How to develop a positive relationship with their child
Cognitive and behavioral strategies to manage their own mood and how to cope with everyday stress
A variety of positive communication, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills to enhance their parenting and co-parenting skills
Anger management techniques