PROGRAMS FOR FAMILIES AND THEIR CHILDREN BIRTH TO 5

What Kids Like About Parents Place
In a nursery school-like setting, Parents Place offers a range of activities, including:
- Art
- Music time
- Snack time
- Sand play
- Water play
- Playdoh
- Dress-up corner
- Play kitchen
- Blocks
- Train table
- Indoor slide
- Toys for children birth to five
- Puzzles
- Books
(These activities increase children's competence, curiosity, creativity, and enjoyment of learning.)

The group socialization experiences help children begin to:
- Share play space and materials
- Take turns
- Follow a structured schedule
- Develop language
- Settle their conflicts non-violently
- Form positive relationships with "teachers"
(All of which helps the eventual transition into school.)

 

What's Available to Parents
Programs offer all interested parents:
- Individual and/or group support
- Parent skills training
- Child development information
- Referrals to community resources
- Informal play-based assessments of their children, upon request
- A 24-hour warm line

Families come to Parents Place when:
- Parents feel isolated and need companionship and support
- Parents want their children to have group learning experiences and a stimulating play environment
- Parents feel overwhelmed or confused and parenthood is more than expected
- Parents feel that their child is different and/or presents difficult challenges

 

A replica of this service is offered, weekly, only for chlidren under 2 years old as of September 1st. This allows toddlers to have the program all to themselves. See schedules.

 

PROGRAM FOR MOTHERS AND INFANTS BIRTH TO 9 MONTHS

PROGRAM FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH ASD