Make Parenting A Pleasure®, Second Edition (MPAP SE) training for OPEC Hub parenting educators who use or plan to use the curriculum and want to increase their proficiency and understanding.

This fast-paced, interactive, two-day training equips parenting education professionals to best use the Make Parenting A Pleasure, Second Edition. This training is also applicable to parenting educators who use the original Make Parenting A Pleasure, Parenting Now! the curriculum, and Haga de la Paternidad un Placer.
Join us for this training and:

Gain an in-depth knowledge of the curriculum
Experience a sample session
Practice and present a portion of the curriculum
Discuss applications and implementation for using the curriculum with the families you serve

By the end of this training, you will be more knowledgeable, confident and skilled in delivering the curriculum.

NOTE: The training will be rescheduled if there are fewer than 10 registrants ONE week prior to the training date. You will be notified if that is the case.

Save $25 when you register by April 14, 2019, and get the Early Bird Rate of $325!!
After April 14, 2019, registration will be $350.

On May 6th, 7th & 8th, IRCO’s Asian Family Center will be sponsoring the 3 Day Nurturing Fathers and Marriage & Parenting Facilitator Training, designed for professionals working with families or dads wanting to be better dads in an accelerated experience….taught by Portland based National Trainer/Consultant Jennifer Moss, MA, MFT.

This workshop is for professionals and laypersons alike who work with fathers, ever had a father or is a father! Mental Health, paraprofessionals, and educators have often said this training has been life changing. This program has been used in prisons, support groups, psychotherapy, parent education and much more.

Jennifer’s style of training entails a hands on experience, reviewing each topic from the core lessons of the Nurturing Fathers and Marriage & Parenting programs. Jennifer walks you through real life examples teaching various NP groups and home visitation, as well as experiencing over two dozen engagement activities with her style of teaching. Although she was trained under both Stephen Bavolek and Mark Perlman directly, Jennifer’s focus is implementation, with a special emphasis on Self-Care and Communication skills. Be prepared to experience music, movement, partner sharing, alongside intense experiential group work and activities, and powerful discussions. This is a trauma informed, strength based, needs based parent education training that is backed by 35 years of research and evidenced based credentials.

This three day specialized professional workshop teaches the philosophy of nurturing fathers and Marriage & Parenting; and how to implement and facilitate these programs, the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI) and Nurturing Skills Competency Scale (NSCS). These workshops address hands on skills and experiential exercises to use with parents and their children.

* A certificate of completion will be issued and any trainee that completes the requirements of the 3 day training will be considered facilitator certified and deemed qualified to facilitate either the Nurturing Fathers Program or the Marriage & Parenting Program. ** Prior experience or completion of the Nurturing Parenting core program is highly recommended but not required with this training although some grants or agencies may require core training in conjunction with this training.

The Nurturing Father’s Program specialized workshop teaches the philosophy of nurturing fathering and how to implement and facilitate the Nurturing fathers program, as well as a preview of the Marriage & Parenting Program (an offshoot of the NP curriculum designed for couples)! This workshops address hands on skills and experiential exercises to use with both parents, with an emphasis on male nurturing and male ways of parenting and communicating with children.

Topics include:

The Roots of Fathering
Self-Nurturing Skills
Feelings and Male Nurture
Fathering without Violence or Fear
Overcoming Barriers to Nurturing Fathering: Anger, Alcohol/Other Substances, and Stress
Discipline as a team sport
Fun
Fathering Sons/Fathering Daughters
Nurturing Relationships: Teamwork between Father and Co-parent/Spouse
Balancing Work: A Time and a Place for Fathering
Healing the Father wound
Family His-tory/Her-story (Couples Program*)
Family Leadership (Couples Program*)
Role Modeling (Couples Program*)

Email jennifermossmft@gmail.com or call 808-281-1494 to sign up now. This training includes two workbooks.