Parents Assistance

The Parents Assistance (PA) program helps parents create and sustain healthy, safe, and nurturing relationships with their children, and serves families who are struggling with difficult family dynamics. We offer three different parent education groups including:

Respectfully Connected

Our flagship service, Respectfully Connected, is the core of the PA program. This 16-week group promotes connection and empowerment as the foundation for positive parenting. Our class places respect and empathy at the center of parenting decisions and promotes healthy families by teaching specific parenting skills in multiple content areas. Some topics of discussion include attachment and connection, parenting styles, effective praise, discipline and punishment and physical safety, among many others.

Live Your Best Life

This group is intended to be taken in conjunction with the Respectfully Connected group, and focuses on the parent’s self –care, emotional regulation/functioning, distress tolerance, communication style, and overall well-being. Developing these skills assists parents in being more emotionally regulated and mentally present for their children, especially in times of stress and strong feelings. We give parents the tools to build themselves up so that they can, in turn, model and pass these skills along to their children.

Parenting Through Trauma

This second-level group is reserved for parents who have completed the Respectfully Connected and Live Your Best Life groups successfully. It is multifaceted in its approach: the parent’s own traumatic experiences are explored and are placed in the context of their family’s current involvement with Child Welfare. Heavy emphasis is placed on the effects of trauma on families and how best to address trauma-related issues from a parenting perspective. Parenting in the context of domestic violence and substance abuse are specifically addressed.

Participation Guidelines

All Parents Assistance group services are held virtually via Zoom. Please review the following Zoom participant ground rules prior to enrolling:

  • Please be familiar with devices and internet connection before class begins - this will prevent any delays to the class

  • Set your participant name to the name used for enrollment

    • If you do not wish to share your full name on zoom, please send the name used for enrollment to instructor privately.

  • You must be fully dressed and have your video on at all times

  • Please sit up as if you were in an in-person class

  • Don’t perform other activities while in class (driving your car, walking around outside, exercising, stocking shelves, watching TV, etc.)

  • No smoking/drinking alcohol is allowed

  • If you are in a public place, please wear headphones for participant privacy

  • Please be respectful of each other and the instructor

  • Please join the class a few minutes prior to the start time

  • Breaks will be given throughout the class

If you are not able to follow the rules, the instructor has the right to ask you to leave the class.

*If any accommodations are needed, please contact us at least 2 weeks prior to services.


Child Welfare Referrals 

PA services for families referred by the child welfare system include assessment, psycho-educational parenting groups (parenting classes), parent-child observations, parenting-related individual/family counseling sessions, intensive case management/advocacy, and Child-Parent Relationship Therapy. Services are offered various times throughout the week.


How to Enroll

To participate in Parents Assistance groups, parents must be referred to our agency by DHS and have an active case. Enrollment is free and must be completed in-person at CCFI (210 S. Cockrel Ave., Norman, OK 73071). Once your enrollment has been processed, you will be contacted via phone to schedule an assessment. After you’ve completed an assessment, you will receive your official recommendations within 7 business days.

To learn more about enrollment, please contact our program team by calling 405-364-1420.

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Our Promise to Protect Children 

CCFI provides a safe environment for children and youth to heal and grow. Our agency works to protect those we serve from abuse and maltreatment by carefully screening staff and volunteers, providing training on topics such as physical, emotional and sexual abuse awareness and prevention, and by continually monitoring adult-child relationships.

Impact of Services

Parents Assistance collaborates with parents to foster healthy, safe and nurturing relationships with their children. Through multi-faceted parent education groups, this program equips individuals like Brittney with the knowledge and tools they need to improve their parenting journey. To learn more about Brittney, watch the video below.

Video production by Lane Avenue Studios.

 
 

CCFI's Parents Assitance program is funded in part by the Oklahoma District Attorney's Council Office through a U.S. Department of Justice Victims of Crime Act  (VOCA) fund.

These funds are awarded to support direct services to victims of crime. The funds are generated through federal criminal fines, penalties and assessments and do not include general tax revenue.

The most common crime victimization among families served by CCFI is child abuse and neglect and domestic violence.

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