Based on Pasadena City College’s model for interactive parent education, our parent education classes utilize specific goals, objectives and strategies that:
- increase parenting skills that promote healthy development in children;
- broaden parenting strategies;
- promote positive family relationships, self-esteem, and self-confidence in parents;
- encourage adults to engage in frequent and increasingly complex verbal interactions with their children;
- increase the skills parents need to support their children’s early educational success; and
- strengthen partnerships between families and schools.
Our adult education model builds on participants’ existing education and skills. Classes teach parents to think critically and creatively, solve problems, set goals and achieve them, and acquire successful interpersonal skills. Our method utilizes project-based, peer to peer, and small group activities, and is based on nationally accepted best practices in adult education.
The following are some of the classes and activities that are offered to parents:
- Parenting Education Classes
- Adult Education, English as a Second Language Classes & Career Planning
- Parent & Child Interactive Literacy Activities & Assisting in Children’s Classroom
- Family Home Visits
- Family Literacy Classes
- Psychological Support Groups, Family Crisis Counseling & Referrals to Specialized Services
- Leadership Training & Health & Wellness Seminars
- Family Events & Field Trips
- Personal Enrichment Activities
