Enhancing Parenting Skills Through Effective Co-Parenting Relationships

Welcome to the Enhancing Parenting Skills Through Effective Co-Parenting Relationships Certification!

The Enhancing Parenting Skills Through Effective Co-Parenting Relationships curriculum combines workshops from the Fatherhood Development, Young Mothers and Parenting, and Relationship Skills for Strong Families curriculums.
This approach allows program facilitators to guide the parents through gaining new and sharpening existing skills separately before coming together in the last portion of the program to focus on their team parenting skills. In addition to improving a child’s well-being, the coparenting focus has the potential to increase fathers’ engagement in parenting. The curriculum also offers a methodology for training and learning, and assessment tools.
The curriculum sessions are organized around four areas of content: Personal Development begins with team-building activities and continues with discussions of values, defining manhood/womanhood, and life skills. Parents are encouraged to consider their own values and how they communicate them to their children as well as messages that society and their own families send them about what it means to be a man/woman and father/mother. Life Skills includes skill-building sessions on communication, decision-making, and dealing with stress.
A key theme here is that the ability of individuals to live satisfying, productive lives depends largely on their effectiveness as communicators and decisionmakers. Responsible Parenting, the heart of the curriculum, focuses on the important role that parents play in the lives of their children. Topics covered include the roles and responsibilities of mothers and fathers, the impact mothers and fathers each have on the way their children develop, and what to expect from children at different stages of development.
Healthy Relationships further explores ways to communicate effectively and helps participants gain the motivation and skills needed to establish a more positive (functional) relationship with the child's other parent and family. Activities centered around this topic will help parents learn to manage their anger, resolve conflicts and negotiate relationships with others in their lives, particularly those who can support them as mothers and fathers.

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