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Overview
Lack of time, lack of skills, and every day stressors play a role in creating
barriers to good family communication and involvement in schools. We tackle
these barriers because they exist, because we are optimistic that these
challenges can be overcome, and because we believe families can develop good
communication and be successful.
Metropolitan Family Service provides researched based parent and family services that
strengthen families, help children succeed, and create strong connections to
the community.
MFS Parent and Family Goals
- Improve parenting skills
- Reduce parent stress and isolation
- Encourage parent involvement in
children’s learning
- Provide greater access to resources
- Improve family communication
- Decrease risky behavior in children
MFS Parent and Family Services
- Guiding Good Choices Classes and
Workshops that teach parents healthy
communication for their family
- Make Parenting A Pleasure Classes that provides support for parents and tools for positive parenting.
- Incredible Infants Parenting Classes provide parents with information to
give new babies a great start
Parent Education Success
Parents and families struggle with daily issues including good
communication, family conflict and stress, anger management, isolation, and
risky behavior in children.
We recognize the inherent difficulty in parenting and the need to reinforce
support systems. Parenting services provide an understanding of child development, and concrete ways to deal with the challenges of raising children.
Parent and family education groups are offered in Spanish and English in elementary schools and community sites in Multnomah and Clackamas counties.
MFS engages the energy, resources, and time
of many community partners and volunteers
to provide parent and family services in the Greater Portland region.
Our community partners include nonprofit providers, businesses, schools, and
funders. With these collaborations, MFS provides parent and family services
to more than 30,000 individuals
each year.
Your Support
We welcome your support.
For more information contact Parent
Education at 503.232.0007, ext. 250 or parenteducation@metfamily.org
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