Prevention & Youth Services staff, Becky Mohagen, Regina Frazier, Taya Sanders, Margrit Lovell, Vicki Wood, and Nathan Choules attended the Parent Project Facilitators training in Mission Viejo, California on April 30 through May 4, 2018.

This training is a program for empowering parents and transforming teens. It’s a 40 hour training for  professionals to teach parents how to effectively work with their out-of-control child. There were 20 adults from varying positions including law enforcement, educational advocates, truancy mentors, and case managers from Washington, California, and Idaho.

The primary goal of the Parent Project is to reduce family conflict, reduce juvenile crime, reduce recidivism, and improve both school performance and attendance. This class offers parents concrete, no-nonsense interventions for destructive adolescent behaviors in as few as 10-16 weeks.

The classes will be offered in Clark & Cowlitz Counties.  We will be setting up quarterly classes in Clark County and bi-yearly trainings in Cowlitz County.