Raising Great Kids (RGK)

RGK is an 8-week parent education, violence-prevention program presented by Family Service . The program is free and open to all parents who want to improve their parenting skills. Groups meet once a week for 2.5 hours.

The group experience is followed by an opportunity for parents to receive 4 in-home coaching sessions.

• Assist parents in understanding and utilizing a “Process of Discipline” to create guidelines for modeling and teaching respectful behavior and to enhance parent ability to “respond” as opposed to “react” to disrespectful behavior.

• Assist parents in building special relationships with their children that provide support and guidance, by encouraging parents to clarify their own emotions so as to enhance their ability to encourage their children to express feelings in a respectful manner, with parents, peers and adults in the community.

• Provide parents with specific information and activities to assist them in teaching both younger and older children to understand and appreciate family/cultural values as they relate to the development of social skills needed to function successfully as an adult in this society.

• Decrease the sense of isolation by supporting parents in a parent program, as well as provide parents with a mechanism for connecting to informal and formal community resources that are needed in order for meaningful and lasting changes to occur. 

• Connect parents to the healthy aspects of their childhood, while also providing parents with strategies, skills, techniques, and information needed to break the cycle of violence to self and others.