Site Specific Parenting Classes

In-Home Visitations/Consultations

Supervised Visitation

Gang Prevention Services

Dad's Connection

Parenting Apart

Positive Parenting Program

Site Specific Parenting Classes

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In-Home Visitations/Consultations

CPI parent educators are often out in the community, connecting in homes of parents who cannot attend parenting classes. Many of these parents are at risk of child abuse and neglect. The often face barriers such as lack of English skills or transportation, or even fear of being in a group setting. The CPI educators do more than coach in parenting skills. They provide referrals to critical services, and the support of a caring and trusted friend.

Supervised Visitation

CPI provides a safe place for families in need of court-ordered supervised visitation. Most visits take place at our Family Resource Center on Standish Ave. but we also provide supervised visits at Valley of the Moon Children’s Home and at the Child Welfare Services Department.

On site visits are provided in a child-friendly atmosphere featuring toys and activities designed to enhance interaction between children and adults. Two weeks are needed to arrange for visits. Phone 585-6108 for an appointment.

Gang Prevention Services

Since 2002, CPI has participated in Santa Rosa’s Community Development Block Grant collaborative, joining with other local service agencies in fashioning a coordinated approach to stopping the growth of youth gangs. CPI offers two anti-gang parenting programs designed to strengthen the relationship between parents and children.

The Dads Matter program is tailored specifically to the needs of single custodial and non-custodial fathers, especially bi-lingual and mono-lingual Spanish-speaking parents whose children are at high risk for gang membership. These fathers experience significant barriers to parenting services and support and a key goal of CPI’s parenting program is to assure that these parents receive culturally competent and convenient access to classes and services that promote good parenting.

Dads Matter offers parenting support, in-home visits, and mentoring for custodial and non-custodial fathers of children at-risk for gang involvement. As an extension of CPI’s three-year-old Father Mentoring Program, Dads Matter builds parenting confidence among fathers and strengthens their authority with their children. The program is designed to build closer relationships between non-custodial fathers and their children by improving co-parenting communication with the custodial parent, where appropriate increasing his child support payments, and strengthening the father’s involvement in the daily lives of his children. It supports custodial fathers, especially single parent dads, with positive discipline and other connecting parenting strategies that can build stronger relationships between the father and his children.

CPI’s proposed Mothers and Sons Intervention Program is tailored specifically to the needs of single mothers of sons at-risk for gang involvement, including bi-lingual and Spanish-speaking parents. Sons at risk include boys who display certain risk factors that include: disciplinary school suspension or poor school behaviors including difficulty with academic subjects; family problems including discipline problems and rejection of adult authority; depression or other mental disorders; an older sibling who is involved with gangs; and incidents of youth violence or vandalism.

Mothers and Sons offers in-home visits to single mothers challenged by raising sons at risk for gang involvement. Referrals are made by Burbank Housing and the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Rosa based on criteria for boys perceived to be at risk for gang involvement. Additionally, single mothers needing services under the program may contact CPI directly. Home visits will be offered by CPI’s culturally sensitive bi-lingual parent educators.

Dad's Connection

For the past eight years Dad's Connection has provided Sonoma County fathers with classes and resources for fathering. In addition to special presentations and workshops, Dad's Connection offers referrals to a variety of programs and services for fathers. These include classes for first time dads, support groups for both custodial and non-custodial fathers, and special programs for young fathers age 16-24. Fathers meet in the CPI Dads Den.

CPI’s Father Mentoring Program assists both custodial and non-custodial dads with one-to-one mentoring as they address a range of parenting challenges. The Fathers and Sons program is designed specifically for custodial and non-custodial fathers of boys at risk for gang involvement.

Classes and programs change regularly and are featured in the CPI quarterly newsletter on the Dad's Connection page. For more information about classes and services specifically for fathers, contact CPI at 585-6108.

Parenting Apart

The following programs help families deal with issues arising from separation, divorce, single parenting and step-parenting.

The Kids’ Turn Program is an educational program for parents and children who are experiencing divorce. This program will help children learn how to identify and communicate their feelings and to improve their coping skills to adjust to changes in the family. Parents will understand more about how children are affected by divorce and how they can help their children. Parents also will be coached to improve communication with their children’s other parent. Both parents are encouraged to attend and will be in a group separate from their former partners. Children’s groups are organized according to age.

This one evening class helps you deal with the challenges of raising children in two households. The focus is on creating a more cooperative relationship with your ex-partner that will put the interests of your children first.

This five week class deals with the stresses and strains felt by a single parent and discusses discipline concerns, self-care, custody issues and forming new relationships.

This one-night workshop discusses how to meet the challenges of step parenting and form new relationships.

Positive Parenting Program (Triple P)

Triple P (Positive Parenting Program) is a multilevel system of parenting and family interventions for the prevention and treatment of child behavior problems and emotional disturbance. The evidence-based Triple P model was researched and developed in Australia for more than 25 years and is now used in 15 countries.

Triple P has strong, well-documented support for its effectiveness with families and children. The California Evidence Based Clearing House for Child Welfare (CEBA) gave Triple P its highest rating based on an extensive review of the research. As a result, the California Institute for Mental Health, Child and Family Policy Institute for California, and the Center for Human Services, University of California-Davis are actively promoting the Triple P model.

The California Parenting Institute is beginning a community-wide campaign to add this positive parenting model to Sonoma County. The model has been developed as a professional resource that can be used by a range of helping professionals including physicians, nurses, educators, social workers, therapists, and police officers. Since Triple P emphasizes a community approach, rigid professional boundaries are discouraged and the emphasis is on providing training and support to a variety of professionals to become more effective in their parent consultation skills. The Triple P model is congruent with the Touchpoints model which CPI has supported in Sonoma County for more than 10 years. The approach emphasizes parent competence and helps to develop a parent’s capacity for self-regulation. Triple P understands that intervention is time limited and parents need to become independent problem solvers. Triple P uses cognitive behavior techniques that have been proven to help parents develop coping skills in high-risk parenting situations.