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Delaware
Ecumenical Council on
Children and Families
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PARENTS ANONYMOUS® Parents Anonymous® is a network of mutual support programs for parents who want to improve their relationships with their children, strengthen their families and reduce the stress often associated with parenting.
Parents Anonymous® offers opportunities to explore parenting options in a safe and confidential weekly group. Groups are professionally facilitated but parent led.
Parents Anonymous® is a prevention program for any issue that affects families as a result of the stresses often associated with parenting.
Why is parenting sometimes so difficult?
* Stress * Lack of emotional support * Economic difficulties * Substandard housing * Lack of communication * Domestic violence * Divorce or separation * Enforcing discipline
What kind of concerns do people bring to Parents Anonymous®?? Parents bring all kinds of concerns and share those concerns and needs in different degrees. Parents need support, nurturing, empathy, respite and a safe place to vent their concerns. They come seeking ways to change and to improve their relationship with their children. Parents Anonymous® provides a safe place and atmosphere to do that. Childcare or corresponding Children's Programs are provided at no cost while parents are attending groups. Referrals from other agencies, organizations and professionals are welcomed.
Why refer parents to Parents Anonymous®?
Families will realize more positive outcomes through regular participation in the Parents Anonymous® effective mutual support model.
Parents will have weekly contact with their facilitator and other parents. Their children will be part of the children's program.
Parents, as their own agents of change, will develop a personal support system and may continue participation in Parents Anonymous® groups for as long as their choose.
The Parents Anonymous® principles and group models have a successful thirty-year history of helping thousands of parents make long term, significant changes in their lives.
Why does Parents Anonymous® work so well?
Parents Anonymous® support groups are based upon these four principles:
1. PARENT LEADERSHIP…Parents recognize and take responsibility for their problems, develop solutions and serve as role models for other parents.
2. MUTUAL SUPPORT…Help is reciprocal in that parents give and receive support from one another.
3. SHARED LEADERSHIP…Parents and professionals build successful partnerships to share responsibility, expertise and leadership roles.
4. PERSONAL GROWTH…Parents make significant long-term positive change through exploring their feelings, identifying their options and acting on their decisions in an atmosphere of trust, support and acceptance.
Parents Anonymous® is recognized as an effective child protection, family strengthening and delinquency prevention program by the United States Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.
Parents Anonymous® Webpage (Link)
Please feel free to
contact Rose Whitby at (302)
225-1040 or (302) 225-3011 |
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