The Parent Education Center Staff. Please feel free to contact any staff member for more information or questions.
The Parent Education Center offers parenting workshops throughout the year. Please click the links below for details and registration information.
Personal visits — during which your parent educator will share age-appropriate child development and parenting information, address your parenting concerns, and personal family goals.
Screenings — to assess your child's overall development.
Contact: (740) 345-6166 x230 or by email.
This three session workshop will give you the opportunity to meet with other families of toddlers and preschool children who may be experiencing some of the same challenges you are facing everyday. Using videos, activities and group discussion, a group leader will help you learn important skills for parenting a young child.
This three or six session workshop will focus on children from 5 to 12 years of age and includes an opportunity to work with other families in similar situations. Using video, home activities, group discussions and group activities, this program will help you improve on your skills as a parent as your child grows.
Incredible Years training programs give parents and caregivers strategies to manage behaviors such as aggressiveness, ongoing tantrums, and acting out behavior such as swearing, whining, yelling, hitting and kicking, answering back, and refusing to follow rules. The program also shows parents how to support their child's emotional development and confidence; helping children ultimately succeed with developing friendships, developing emotional regulations skills, and starting school ready to learn. The 14 week program, has a history of success in Licking County through Flying Colors Public Preschool, Newark City Schools and will now be offered free of charge to more families in Licking County.