Skilled Parenting, provided by the Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation, is an educational program, and support group, available to any parent experiencing difficulty in raising children. The program is designed to improve skills in parenting, assertiveness, communication, and coping while educating the parent about additional resources available within the community for the family. Another goal is to prevent child abuse by teaching effective parenting skills to at-risk adults.
Participants lessen their degree of social isolation while many find comfort in the non-threatening, non-judgmental group setting.
Although the program receives referrals from local child protective agencies, health care providers, schools and other social service organizations any parent or caretaker is welcome to attend.
Goals of the program include helping parents:
Participants lessen their degree of social isolation while many find comfort in the non-threatening, non-judgmental group setting.
Although the program receives referrals from local child protective agencies, health care providers, schools and other social service organizations any parent or caretaker is welcome to attend.
Goals of the program include helping parents:
- Learn better parenting techniques
- Communicate more effectively
- Learn realistic expectations regarding children
- Learn appropriate anger and stress management techniques
- Learn alternative methods of discipline
- Work toward healthy self-esteem, and learn to build the child’s self-esteem
- Build better lives for their children
- Prevent child abuse and neglect
