Parents Program

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Counseling and supports to families and children who are addressing present challenges and past traumas in order to enable full and healthy lives.

A group of experienced clinicians offer a wide range of services including:

Young Parent Support Services

Young Parent Support Services provide center and community based counseling for pregnant teens and young parents. The program focuses on improving parenting skills, and works to ensure that young people recognize their own needs and realize their own potential.

Kayla Rosenberg House

The Parents Program provides clinical support and case management to the families of the Kayla Rosenberg House, a transitional living program. Through a partnership with CAN-DO, the House offers safe and affordable housing to single parents and their children who have experienced domestic violence and are at risk of homelessness. In this environment, parents can work to become financially and emotionally self-sufficient, while they continue their education and/or enhance their job skills.

Parenting Workshops and Groups Build Strong Family-Child Relationships

We offer unique parenting workshops on a variety of topics tailored to meet the educational needs of the participants.

Parenting a child with mental health concerns presents unique joys and challenges. Offered in collaboration with The Newton Partnership, Sharing the Journey is a ten-session parent support group helps parents navigate the complexities of responding to a child with emotional or behavioral issues and understanding the diagnoses and range of services.

Special components of the Parents Program include:

• Individual counseling in English, Spanish and Portuguese
• Infant/child assessment and therapy
• Parent-child connections work
• Clinical home-visiting
• Young Parent Support: center and community based counseling with pregnant teens, young parents and/or children
• Case management, advocacy and supportive services
• Consultation and supports regarding social-emotional/mental health issues in NCSC’s early education classrooms, after school program and family child care homes
• Family counseling to address multi-generational issues
• Support and parenting groups
• Parent education – provided in parent workshops and informally
• Brazelton Touchpoints Center’s approach