Services and Groups Offered

Parent Education and Support Groups

This education group series helps parents to learn positive parenting skills to help them be the best parents they can be. Many parents come to us needing to fulfill a court-required program.

Strong Emotions and Parenting | For parents to learn how to manage their strong emotions and respond to children who have strong emotions.

Parenting in Recovery | For parents who are in recovery from alcoholism or drug abuse, domestic violence, co-dependency, or other challenging life situations.

Parenting Skills | For parents who are ready to learn parenting skills related to their specific needs.

The Early Years | Parents can learn about early childhood development and other key topics with young children.

Parenting Skills in Applications | For parents who have completed at least one parenting group series. This group focuses on learning and applying parenting skills during the series in play sessions with the group members children.

Child Parent Relationship Therapy

Parents Assistance offers Child Parent Relationship Therapy to families in order to help parents apply new parenting skills in their relationships with their children. This service is scheduled on an individual basis. Sessions are scheduled once a week for 16 weeks and take place at the Center for Children and Families Inc. This service is available to parents who are participating in parenting groups.  More information regarding this service is available through contacting CCFI.

Children’s Therapeutic Play Groups

Parents Assistance program has a special program for your children. Children’s play groups are available to children of parenting group participants who are under 14 years of age. Our staff and volunteers become partners with you in understanding how best to relate with your child.

Our Children’s Program Director is a master’s level professional in social work, human relations or psychology. The Children’s program director screens, trains and supervises our wonderful program volunteers. Children will be fed a snack each evening and have an opportunity to participate in play including interacting with a visiting therapy dog once a month.

Please contact the program director, Tracy, before your child’s first visit to children’s play groups either by email  (tdickens@ccfinorman.org) or phone 405.364.1420.

Emergency Respite Care (Extended Families)

Extended Families is specifically designed to provide short-term emergency foster care for children 0-18 years old. This service is for families who are in crisis and do not have a safe place for their children to stay. Some examples of children who qualify for this service are those who might have a parent in the hospital or jail, whose family is having extreme financial problems, or whose family is homeless. Most often the children come from single-parent homes, and their parent is in desperate need of respite care. Children are placed with Extended Families volunteers, and the average stay is 2-7 days.