No cost, 2 hour "Parent Power" classes, also known as a parent education program, aims to empower parents/caregivers by providing them with skills and knowledge to improve their parenting practices, improve their children's/adolescent's outcomes, and build strong relationships with their children/youth. These classes can cover a range of topics, including positive discipline strategies, understanding child development, and building communication skills.  

The Parent Project is a parenting training program developed in direct response to the questions and challenges parents say they are facing with their strong-willed teenager.  What is it?  

• A 10 week parent training program designed specifically for parents of strong -willed or out-of-control adolescent children.  

• The curriculum teaches concrete identification, prevention, and intervention strategies for the most destructive of adolescent behaviors (poor attendance and performance, alcohol and other drug use, gangs, runaways, and violent teens). How Does it work?  

• Parents attend and learn, in a classroom setting, to manage teen behavior problems at home.  An activity-based workbook, “A Parent’s Guide to Changing Destructive Adolescent Behavior,” is available only to program participants  Parents meet one time per week, two to three hours per session, for 10 weeks.  

• Parents support groups are formed using the UCLA, Self-Help Support Group model.  The focus of the program is to help parents learn specific ways to help change negative behavior. 

Why the Parent Project?  

• The Parent Project is the only course of its kind. It was developed in direct response to the questions and challenges parents say they are facing with their strong-willed teenager.  

•  REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED PRIOR TO THE FIRST CLASS SESSION SPACE IS LIMITED TO REGISTER  

• Sign-ups are ongoing! We urge parents to contact Ms. Monica Podlesny at (760) 863-7447 or by email at MonicaPodlesny@safefamilesca.org