Family Assessment/Parent Preparation Classes – A 24-hour series of interactive workshops designed to prepare prospective adoptive and foster care parents to bring a child home. This course is focused on understanding the child’s perspective from a developmental view, with special attention given to enhancing attachment between child and parent. It provides hands on tools that support parenting a child in transition to permanency.

Download an informational flyer about Family Assessment/Parent Preparation Classes

Parenting Children who have Experienced Trauma and Loss Series – A specialized series of classes designed for parents, kinship caregivers and guardians, who are parenting children who have experienced trauma and loss as a part of their history.  This course provides tools, techniques and information that empowers participants to effectively parent their child.

Bridge Builders Parenting Series – The Bridge Builders basic and advanced parenting classes, and the educational counseling services, will no longer be available effective in December 2008. As a result of the state and county’s economic problems, the Orange County Social Services Agency has terminated a number of its contracts, including the Bridge Builders Program.

Kinship Center remains committed to our mission of securing and supporting families for our most vulnerable children, and we will continue to be a resource to families by providing a variety of services.

The Resource Parent Support Group meets in Tustin on the second Thursday of every month from 7-9 pm.

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Click here for information on our Online Classes