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• Supervised Visitation
  
  Parents deserve respect as they meet the challenge of supervised visits.  We provide visitation with parents and children who are cooperating with one another and do not require a high level of security.  

          By Appointment
          Fees: $40-$50 per hour, weekday or weekends available.

• Mediation
• Parent Coaching
• Parenting Plans
• Supervised visitation

• Mediation Consultation
  
  Conflict is transformative.  The mediation process explores sensitive and 
  confidential issues in a safe and humane environment. Clients work toward an
  informed and mutually acceptable settlement.  
   
  Administrative Fees: $75 per hour Includes intake and any settlement agreement
  forms.

• Parent Coaches
  
  Parent Coaches provide a personal, one-on-one contact with parents who are
  struggling with their children’s behavior.  The Institute supports all ages of parents and children in all diverse family situation. 
  
  By Appointment
  Fees: $50 per hour and may be included with supervised visitation

• Parenting Plans
  
  Strong communication skills ease feelings and offer an opportunity for collaboration and trust. With a low-cost parenting plan, parents save thousands in attorney's fees while engaging in a satisfying process where they are in charge of their legal process. A sensitive and experienced consultant will work out difficult visitation schedules and conflict resolution options with one or both parents before the document is presented to an attorney or paralegal.   A creative, flexible parenting plan can provide the common ground for negotiating in the best interest of children and establish a positive framework for newly extended families. 

          By Appointment
          Fees: $75 per hour (includes typed copy for attorney)

• Consultation Services
• Workshop Presentations
• Education

Community Workshops

Open to the Public.  Cost $20 per adult, children & teens free.  RSVP limited space. Call (206) 992-2831 or Register on line.

3-hour workshops that focus on the principles of Breakthrough Parenting® Moving Your Family From Struggle to Cooperation by Jayne A. Major, Ph. D. These workshops are conducted through Break Through Parent Institute by Mollie M. Hughes, M. A. and are a part of the Extended Parent Education for family intervention.

• Place: Burke Gilman Community Room, 5100 40th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98105

Extended Parent Ed Program

Break Through Parent Institute is collaborating with the municipals courts and social service agencies to provide Seattle and eastside, court/CPS-involved parents to create the Extended Parent Ed Program. The program gives first time domestic violence offenders, bio-parents reuniting with their children, or separated/divorcing parents access to quality parent education, increased services and referrals, and a successful reporting method for establishing compliance.

The program includes a 1-hour compulsory interview, 8-weeks anger management, 10-weeks parenting classes, once a month follow-up classes (for 6 months), evaluations, journals, workbooks and a comprehensive reporting method.

Interview Assessment Process:

All clients meet one hour with a Master’s Level Instructor prior to class for interview and parenting skills assessment.  Fee: $75 

Class Information
8-Week WHOA!®  Anger Management
Alternating Wednesdays & Thursdays by enrollment
6:00 to 8:30 PM

(See Calendar)

10-Week Ongoing Parenting Class Information (after client completes WHOA!® program)
Mondays 6:30 to 8:30 PM

Once a month workshops
Saturdays, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm AND
Tuesdays, 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm

April 21 & 24
May 19 & 22
June 23 & 26 
July 28 & 29 
August 25 & 28
September 22 & 25
October 27 & 30
November 17 & 20

Level II:

• Ongoing Breakthrough Parenting® Classes

Ongoing Parenting Classes - The award-winning parent education curriculum, Breakthrough Parenting: Moving from Struggle to Cooperation by Jayne A. Major, Ph.D. an internationally recognized expert on parent education is the foundation for our parent program. The curriculum is human rights-based, focusing on relationships built on equality and respect. Individuals and families find support and information when they attend the 10-week parent education classes and complete a user-friendly workbook.

Breakthrough Parenting® supports parents as teachers and motivators of cooperative, self-confident children while offering them an alternative to failed authoritarian and permissive parenting styles. The program offers opportunity for empowerment by providing parents with access to community resources as well as improved social skills. Court recommended and approved.

• WHOA! ® (Why Hang Onto Anger!)

Managing Emotions and Strengthening Family Relationships by Mollie M. Hughes, M.A. uses well-established parenting principles in a comprehensive journal with space for individual reflection and group interaction. The 8-week class is facilitated by instructors with interdisciplinary backgrounds and Master’s level degrees. To receive a certificate for this parenting class, consumers must develop an individual conflict plan and evaluate their own progress through weekly journal entries.

The class offers the opportunity to keep a personal journal and practice parenting skills in 1) effective communication 2) positive self-esteem 3) confidence building 4) stress/anger management 5) non-punitive discipline 6) human development (including brain development) and 7) group/community support systems in small and large groups. The WHOA!®   program reinforces the importance of multicultural values. Court recommended and approved.

• WHOA!®
  Alternating Wednesdays & Thursdays by Enrollment
  6:00 to 8:30
  
  Thursdays:
  
• April 5 to May 24
• June 7 to July 26
• August 2 to September 20
• October 4 to November 29
  
Wednesdays:
•  May 9 to June 27
• July 11 to August 29
• September 5 to  October 24
• November 7, 2007 to January 9, 2008
  
  Location:
  Burke Gilman Place Clubhouse
  5100 40th Avenue NE
  Seattle, WA 98105
  (206) 992-2831

Call (206) 992-2831 or Register online

Level III:

• Ongoing Workshop Presentations