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Parenting programs and family service advocacy.

Expand your abilities to work with families and children.  Positively influence parents' skills, knowledge, and confidence with our certified parenting programs for families with children ages zero through twelve.

When you join our growing networks of family professionals, you're part of a community of fellow facilitators, parent educators, and trainers.  You'll have access to our increasing array of tools and resources to support your work with parents and families. And you'll get ongoing professional support and information.    

Certified Training Programs

  • Home Visitor Training Initiative

    Intensive support and intervention in the home.
    All parents deserve support. And when families get the support they need, serious problems can often be prevented. Home visiting programs are an effective and cost-efficient way to improve parental skills and confidence, connect families with other community resources and ensure positive child outcomes.

  • My Tween & Me Parenting Program

    Unearthing the full potential of parents' relationships to their pre-teens.
    Through the My Tween and Me program, parents build their ability to positively influence their children during this unique time of growth and change.

  • Nobody's Perfect Parenting Program

    Building on parenting strengths to overcome challenges.
    Nobody's Perfect is proven to produce key changes in parenting that reduces risk in families experiencing crisis. Become a part of a growing community of facilitators supporting parents and their young children. Learn more about this proven and effective parenting program.

  • Parent-Child Mother Goose Program

    Discover the pleasure and power of rhymes, songs and stories.

    The Parent-Child Mother Goose Program® is a group experience for parents, their babies and young children. Learn more about this preventative program and how it fosters positive family patterns during the crucial early years.

Networks

  • BC Alliance for Young Parents

    Reducing risks and strengthening young families.
    The BC Alliance for Young Parents is a strong voice for teen parents and their children. We are a provincial network of family service workers, teachers, child care workers, researchers and advocates working to support BC's young parents.

    BC Alliance for Young Parents

  • Father Involvement Network

    For a province where fathering is respected and supported.
    The Father Involvement Network of BC creates opportunities for developing innovative ideas and techniques grounded in evidence from research regarding fathers and the process of fathering. As a Network, we work to champion support services for fathers across the province.

    Father Involvement Network BC
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