Community Parent Education Program (COPE)
Parents can learn skills to increase positive behaviour, avoid conflicts, encourage cooperation and respond to aggression from their child while connecting with other parents to talk about common problems. Parents have often been invited to attend COPE while waiting for an ongoing service partner from Children First. Other parents have learned child behaviour management skills or improved their parenting abilities as part of their ongoing service. Feedback from participants has been extremely positive, with parents often commenting that they found the group very helpful, learned how to be a better parent and would recommend the group to others.
Community Parent Education Program (COPE) is a large group parenting course for parents of children aged 3 to 6, designed to:
- Improve child management skills
- Improve family functioning
- Build and strengthen personal networks
The COPE course is being run Tuesday July 6, 2010 from 6:00-8:00 pm at Children First for 9 consecutive weeks. Please call Children First for more informaion at (519) 250-1850, Ext. 201.
Next COPE parenting course will run Sept. 23 through Dec. 2, 2010 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm for 10 consecutive sessions. Initial registration session on Sept. 23 is mandatory."
Please note there will be no childcare available.
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