COUNTY-WIDE ORIENTATION
County-Wide Orientation Program provides a two-day, county-wide, 
comprehensive, on-site orientation to community agencies for new 
employees and other interested parties.
January 15 & 16, 2008
March 18 & 19, 2008
May 20 & 21, 2008
July 15 & 16, 2008
September 16 & 17, 2008
November 18 & 19, 2008

To register for the orientation, please call the Council office 
at
330.399.3412.

 
 

HAND TO HAND CLASSES  
FREE Classes for parents and guardians of children diagnosed with a mental illness  
          

This is an eight-week education program to foster learning, healing and empowerment among families of children with emotional/mental /neurobiological disorders.  Topics include understanding your child's diagnosis, developing family coping skills, counseling and therapy, medications, special educational needs and juvenile justice and child protection agencies.

CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED!
To register, call Diane at 330.394.8931.

 

 

 

PARENT POWER

The Family and Children First Council is sponsoring a series of parenting workshops.  The workshops, titled Parent Power, are held on Thursdays from 6:30 to 7:30 pm.  Everyone who attends receives gifts related to the evening's topic and there are door prizes for a lucky few!  Topics and dates are:

February 21, 2008 - "The Tooth, the Whole Tooth and Nothing but the Tooth!"  This workshop will be held at State Support Team, Region 5 at the Eastwood Mall.  Please click here for a flyer about the workshop.

March 20 - "Fat is not Phat!"  Learn more about childhood obesity.  Location to be announced soon.

April 30 - "To Spank or not to Spank.  That is the Question!"  This workshop will be held at TCAP, located at 1230 Palmyra Road in Warren.

 

For more detailed information about the series, please call the Council office at 330.399.3412.

 

 

 

 

THE SOLACE CENTER presents PARENTS AND TEENS: WORKING IT OUT
Six weekly sessions that include both parents and teens working individually and together to develop a better understanding of the challenges families face during the adolescent years and what teens and parents need from each other.

Participants will learn:

  • New ways of communicating
  • Family problem solving
  • Negotiating conflict 
  • How to have fun together

There is no cost and participants will receive a stipend upon completion of the class.

For more information or to register, please call The Solace Center at 330.399.3433