Family Enrichment Classes

Grow parenting skills and build stronger families

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Parenting the Love and Logic Way®

Ideal for parents and caregivers with children of any age

Parenting the Love and Logic Way® is a group-based curriculum. This program addresses the daily challenges of raising responsible and respectful children. Throughout this course, parents will gain insight in how to effectively stop arguing, use empathy with your child to foster a strong relationship, and support your child in the joys and heartaches of making day-to-day decisions. 

Topics include:

  • The daily challenges of raising responsible, respectful children

  • How to neutralize arguments

  • Using empathy to foster a strong relationship

  • How to help children learn the joys and heartaches of making decisions

  • Setting boundaries

  • Appropriate discipline techniques

The Nurtured Heart Approach®

Ideal for parents, caregivers, and professionals with children of all ages and in all stages

The Nurtured Heart Approach® is a relationship-focused strategy originally developed for working with children who are challenged behaviorally, socially and academically. 

Shown to create a change in all children, The Nurtured Heart Approach® can be beneficial to families with children diagnosed with ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder and other behavioral, emotional and anxiety related symptoms.

Strengthening Families®

Ideal for parents and caregivers with children aged 7–17

Strengthening Families® is designed to bring families together and create an environment with lots of love, but very definite limits. This is the only parenting class offered at Mercer Family Resource Center that includes children 7 to 17 years old. During the class, caregivers and children both learn new skills then practice them in family activities.

This program is proven to:

  • Delay the onset of adolescent substance use

  • Lower levels of aggression in youth

  • Increase the resistance to peer pressure in youth

  • Reduce youth conduct problems in school

  • Improve parenting skills including building a positive relationship with their youth, setting appropriate limits, and following through on consequences in a loving, supportive way

Research has shown this program to be a protective factor against substance abuse, aggression, and failure in school. This is an evidence-based program endorsed by NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) and the US Department of Education.