The Family Connection is largely funded by a grant from Oregon Parenting Education Collaborative. Additional fund partners are: Providence Health & Services, AllCare Health, Southern Oregon Head Start, Northwest Health Foundation, Southern Oregon Early Learning Services, Jackson Care Connect, Health Care Coalition of Southern Oregon, Primary Health, and other organizations who care about children and families who wish to be anonymous.

Our services are located at various locations in  Jackson and Josephine counties in partnership with agencies that serve children and families. Because of a Family Connection partnership, the agency is able to serve their clients with free parenting education and also welcome community members to participate in free parenting education classes, workshops, and events for families.

Our target audience is all parents or guardians from all socio-economic demographics. Our mission is to decrease adverse childhood experiences by normalizing parenting education. Our desired outcome is that families are supported in learning the skills to raise happy, healthy, school-ready children. We actively seek partner organizations serving parent or child populations to help us implement our mission.

Our mission is two fold: We coordinate free parenting classes for any parent or family member to attend, and we also have been charged with professionalizing the career of “Parenting Educator” by offering many training and job opportunities. Learn more about Parenting Education.

What The Family Connection Can Do For Your Organization:

• Train your staff to teach an evidence-based curriculum to your clients at little cost to you. Your staff, along with their ORO professional development, can apply on www.orparenting.org (OrPen) to continue their professional development as a Parenting Educator (one who teaches parents best practices and gives evidence based advice about parenting).
• Allow for partnership with a positive local organization doing passionate, important work in the Southern oregon community. Centrally located between Jackson and Josephine counties in Central Point, Oregon, we are in the perfect position to serve both greater Medford and Grants Pass, as well as all outlying locations. All of our work is evidence based and supported by OPEC (Oregon Parenting Education Collaboration) with a scientific base out of Oregon State University.
• Offer additional services to your staff and/or clients that you may not provide due to finances or staffing constraints.
• Open up opportunity for a wealth of resources to parents/guardians and Parenting Education professionals.
• Provide courses on evidence-based curricula to your clients, staff, or others in your sphere of influence.  

It is our hope that normalizing Parenting Education as a community effort will be the first defense in preventing adverse, traumatic events in a child’s life. It is also our hope that parents that do not “have a village” can feel supported and empowered in this community to raise well-adjusted, ready-to-learn children. Parents have what it takes!

Your “Yes” is the first step to healing our community by teaching parents how to positively parent their children.

What You Can Do For The Family Connection:

Say “Yes” to a beneficial partnership!

What Our Parent Education Classes Include (with your partnership):

• Certified Parenting Educator
• Free Meal
• Quality Childcare
• Incentive Giveaways
• Parenting Workbook
• A fun, supportive atmosphere to talk about real parenting!