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Provides information and a support center for families, educators and anyone interested in the education of children with disabilities. The center provides workshops, newsletters, referral services, lending library and direct support through listening and problem solving with families.

Enhances each child's growth and academic success by helping families understand the special education process and offers resources to help each child achieve success in school and life. Provides a lending library of books, videos, magazines, workshops, and support groups.

Provides a parent education group for addictive families. Services include parenting skills and nurturing supportive group.

Provides information and support services for parents of children who attend or will be attending a Chesapeake City Public School. Services include: workshops and training sessions for parents and educators; maintenance of lending library of current educational resources; and obtains information and consults with parents to provide direction related to educational issues and community services.

Free, on-going classes on healthy pregnancy, labor & delivery, as well as parenting skills. Classes meet once per week. Mothers should be nineteen years old or younger and in their first pregnancy to participate. Fathers, family and friends are invite to attend all classes and activities. Nutritious snack is served at each class as well as a take-home "snack pack"; YWCA can provide transportation to and from class as space is available.

Healthy Families provides voluntary, comprehensive home-visiting services that support at-risk expectant and new parents and help prevent poor childhood outcomes. Home visits are activity-based and focus on a variety of topics including healthy family functioning, family goal planning, maternal and child health, positive parenting strategies, child development, and school readiness. Home visitors also provide families with referrals to a wide array of community resources.

Mentor program for pregnant teens. These adult role models have successfully raised their own children and assist the teen throughout her pregnancy and up to the baby's first birthday.

Offering pregnancy and parenting resources and support to women, men, and families in our community. Services include free and confidential pregnancy tests, pregnancy options counseling, pregnancy and parenting education, material services including maternity, infant and children's clothing, and community referrals. Diapers and formula are available on an emergency basis only. Participants in the educational classes are eligible to receive baby items such as cribs, car seats, strollers, etc. Services are also avaiable to grandparents and foster parents.

Parent education and coaching strengthen families and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Partnered with The Post Institute to develop a curriculum for a six week parenting skills development class. Classes will be offered to counties/cities in which TMC is already providing in-home services.

Provides mentoring and support services to first-time pregnant teens ages 19 and under. Roles models assist teens throughout her pregnancy and until the baby has its first birthday. Also provides case management services to pregnant teens through this difficult time in their lives, and help them make the transition to parenthood.

Provides no cost pregnancy tests, options education including abortion, parenting, & adoption; birth control and emergency contraception information; limited medical services including ultrasound, STI/STD testing & treatment; post-abortion support; pregnancy and parenting education and support to women and men in unexpected pregnancies, regardless of background, beliefs or situation. Appointments can be made at lifespringva.org/contact/. Walk-ins are welcome. Maternity clothing is available at the Downtown Charlottesville location. All baby items can easily be earned through our parenting enrichment program, Parent University.

Counseling services are offered for all ages and for a variety of mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, post traumatic stress disorder, etc. Based on the wraparound process, therapists and family care coordinators focus on recognizing family strengths which can be used to build the solutions that will work for each family. Telehealth options also available if preferred.

Provide parents with information and support as they work with schools to meet their child's learning needs. These needs include but are not limited to academic, social, emotional, developmental and functional skills. Many of the school staff also take advantage of the services at the Center. Promoting a positive partnership between parents and educators, the Parent Resource Center helps families understand the important role they play as part of the educational team.

Provides training and workshops for parents and educators; maintains lending library of educational resources including books, videos and computer instructional items; assists parents in understanding information in order to make informed educational decisions; and distributes newsletters and informational guides several times yearly.

Resource Mothers is a program in which an outreach worker becomes a support person for pregnant and parenting teens. Any pregnant teen, 19 years or younger, is eligible for the program. These staff encourage the teens to complete education and build a future for themselves by providing parenting education, connecting teens to available resources, and teaching them about the care of a newborn/infant. They also provide car seat instruction and demonstration.

Provides a Parent Resource Center for information and support for families, educators and anyone interested in the education of children with disabilities. The center provides workshops, newsletters, referral services, lending library and direct support through listening and problem solving with families.

Serves at-risk low income children ages 0-6 and their families. Offers prevention education and intervention services, case management services through home visits to families, and group activities where families can learn from and support each other. Satellite office in Louisa/Fluvanna County is also available for parenting needs: 434-589-0927 The mission of Child Health Partnership is to engage in partnership with low-income families with preschool children to improve family health and self-sufficiency. Serves the counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Louisa and the city of Charlottesville.

Child Find’s Parent Help program offers free, confidential*, telephone-based services to parents in conflict. We help fragile families explore safe, legal options and available support systems.

Parent Resource Centers are located in each school. Principals can provide you with tools to address your child's learning needs. Please contact the principal at your child's school for more information.

Parent education classes, support groups for parents and caregivers, the Al's Pal's preschool program and parent-child interactive learning groups. Classes and workshops include educating parents to reduce parent isolation by increasing parent-to-parent support and linking families to valuable community resources, to increase parents' knowledge of childhood behaviors and development through parent education, to promote positive nurturing parenting practices. Additional programs are available for Hispanic parents (Circulo de Padres Hispanos at First Baptist Church and St. George's Episcopal).

Provides an information and referral source for needed services that are available in the community, provides training for parents, and promotes an understanding of the special education process in our schools, provides support and information groups for families and educators of children with special needs, maintain a book and video library, promotes a working relationship between parents, educators, and our community resources.

Provides co-parenting classes for parents or other custodial individuals going through change in family life. This class teaches parents how to manage conflict and how to effectively parent when living in two separate households. Separation, divorce, economic changes, and the addition of a new spouse can all bring added stress to two parents who are trying to parent children from separate homes. This class gives valuable reminders, simple tools for managing conflict within the family, and information about your children's developmental needs.

Playgroup for kids and a fun-filled program for parents. Each 90 minute program features free play, an art activity, circle time, and great resources for parents including health information from experts. Registration is required.