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Parenting Resource Center

 
The Parenting Center develops healthy parenting capabilities  

St. Mary Parenting Resource Center offers families of all communities a supportive and nurturing environment. Assisted by trained and certified parenting educators, parents are helped to evaluate their individual needs and goals of parenting. Parenting educators provide education on the vital issues of parenting today and offer guidance on how to create healthy patterns of parenting styles and capabilities. The center offers a variety of services to parents including parenting workshops, and weekly parent-and-child groups.

The St. Mary Parenting Center is located in the Child Development Center building at the rear of the St. Mary campus.  Parenting Resource Centers also have been established in the Neshaminy School District, Bensalem School District, and Council Rock School District, as a cooperative community effort.
Each center offers a variety of services to the families of the community, including parenting workshops, weekly parent-and-child groups, and "Puppets for Children," and is staffed by a certified parenting educator.

The Parenting centers sponsor an annual "Night Out with an Author." Highly acclaimed parenting authors have been featured through these successful seminars. This program allows families to come together to meet and learn from expert parenting authors.

The cost of the parenting program is $5.00 per family per session. The Play’N’Share program is free. The puppet shows are $3.00 per family. The parenting centers offer different workshops for summer, fall and spring, quarterly parenting brochures are mailed out to the families of the community that highlight the pending parenting programs.

The St. Mary Parenting Resource Center is certificated through the Lakeside Parenting Resource Education Network, and recently received a community award for "Building a Better Bensalem" in cooperation with Today Inc.

For information on parenting programs and locations, or to request program brochures, please call 215-710-2345.



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