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- EIN 23-7454254
- (817) 332-6348
- 2928 West 5th Street Fort Worth TX 76107 USA
- www.TheParentingCenter.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Child Abuse Prevention, Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Crime & Law, Domestic Violence, Family Counseling, Family Services, Human Services
Mission: The Parenting Center works to prevent child abuse and neglect by providing families the information they need to build a strong, healthy family relationship. Services include: Family Life Education classes for adults; comprehensive counseling services for individuals, children, couples, and groups; resources for families raising children between two homes; and case management services for families in need.
Target demographics: children, couples, families, parents and individuals navigate relationships
Direct beneficiaries per year: 3170 individuals
Geographic areas served: Fort Worth and Tarrant County
Programs: Family Life Education (FLE): Parenting education classes on more than 50 cutting-edge topics, ranging from basic parenting skills to complex issues and spanning birth through teenage years. FLE also includes self-paced online courses. Parent Coaching: Parent Coaching program is a 10 week in-home or virtual program that creates pathways for parents to better connect with, correct and empower their children. Designed to help the family as a whole, Nest focuses on a family's strengths and identifies methods and goals to help them sustain and build upon those strengths for years to come. Empowering Families Project: This is 6-8 week relationship-focused program to help couples learn to communicate, balance their strengths and increase teamwork. It is well known that when a couples’ relationship is strong, they are naturally better parents. This is a federally funded program and collaborative research study by the University of Texas at Austin. Empowering Students Project: A relationship education based program funded by a READY4Life grant, serving Tarrant County teens in grades 9-12. Free to all participants, ESP provides a comprehensive trauma-informed, data-driven service to improve youth relationships skills, understanding of the value of marriage, and budgeting skills. Future First: Federally funded program created to help teens make wise relationship and sexual choices. Wise choices will assist them in achieving their education, employment, relationship, and family goals, while poor choices may create barriers and adversely impact goal attainment. Counseling Services: This program provides services for individual, family and group therapy, marriage counseling and play therapy for children as young as three years of age.