The Parents Program offers teens and adults of all ages a comprehensive network of support services during pregnancy and the early years of child rearing. The program focuses on improving parenting skills, and works to ensure that young people realize their own needs and potential. The staff of clinically trained professionals seeks to encourage competencies in parents that will enable them to create full and healthy lives for themselves and their children. Services provided by The Parents Program include:
 
  ~ Individual counseling for mothers and fathers, and other family members in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
  ~ Home visiting for pregnant and parenting young women and their infants.
  ~ Day care placement & support
  ~ Support/parenting groups for mothers alone and with their infants and toddlers, as well as a grandmothers group.
  ~ Mother/Child Connections work.
  ~ Child birth education & preparation.
  ~ Advocacy & referral services.
  ~ Housing search assistance.
 
   The Kayla Rosenberg House provides safe and affordable transitional housing to The Parents Program families who are at risk of homelessness and/or abuse, and who have demonstrated their readiness for independent living. In this environment, parents can work to become financially and emotionally self-sufficient, while they continue their education and/or enhance their job skills.
 

For more information, please contact Susan Sklan, LICSW, Clinical Director of The Parents Program, (617) 969-5906 ext.125 or email at ssklan@ncscweb.org