Child Welfare Parent Education Services works to create safe and stable homes by strengthening families, promoting healthy child development and reducing the likelihood of child abuse and neglect.
Learn more about the services that Wake County Child Welfare offers to support parents involved with reports of child abuse and neglect.
Goals of Parent Education Services
- To increase parents’ abilities to cope with everyday stresses
- To improve parents’ connections to other people
- To increase parents’ knowledge of parenting and child development
- To equip parents with concrete supports in times of need
- To increase parents’ skills in being consistent and nurturing their children
- To increase awareness of child sexual abuse and how to prevent it
Desired Outcomes
- Stronger, healthier parents and families
- Families stay together
- Children are reunified with their parents
Who Do We Serve?
- Parents involved with Child Welfare Programs
- Fathers involved with Child Welfare Programs
- Parents in the community that are seeking Parent Education /Support
What do we offer?
- One-on-One Coaching
- Families On The Grow (FOG) – One-on-One Parent Coaching for Parents with Developmental Delays
- Parent Education Classes:
- Parenting 101
- Parenting Infants & Toddlers
- Parenting Adolescents
- Anger Management
For more information,
Email: parenteducationservices@wake.gov
Phone: 919-250-4597