Parenting & Family Education Services
MillarRich Family Services offers evidence-based parenting education programs designed to strengthen family relationships, improve parenting skills, and support safe and healthy child development. These programs are appropriate for parents participating voluntarily, through agency referral, or as part of court-recommended services.
Our programs are delivered in structured settings by trained facilitators and focus on practical strategies that support positive parenting, healthy communication, and safe family environments.
Nurturing Parenting Skills for Families in Supervised Visitation
This family-centered, trauma-informed program is designed to help parents develop nurturing parenting skills and strengthen healthy parent-child relationships. The program focuses on replacing harmful or neglectful parenting patterns with positive, developmentally appropriate parenting practices.
Participants learn skills related to empathy, communication, emotional regulation, and healthy discipline while building stronger connections with their children.
Nurturing Skills for Families is an innovative model of the Nurturing Programs that is designed to provide flexibility to meet the needs of families with children ranging in age from Prenatal to 19 years old.
Competency-based instruction helps parents learn the basic skills of Nurturing Parenting, a proven evidenced based program.
The Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2) and the Nurturing Skills Competency Scale (NSCS) are built in assessment tools to assess parenting beliefs, knowledge and skills. Measure the impact of the program with pre, post and process assessment tools. The Family Nurturing Plan (FNP) promotes a partnership between parents and professionals to work together in creating a parenting program that meets the specific needs of the family. Parents need to demonstrate competence in the Core Lessons that form the foundation of Nurturing Parenting®. Increase parental commitment in attending and participating in learning Nurturing Parenting® beliefs, knowledge and skills.
Children attend separate group sessions that meet concurrently with the parents. The Lesson Guide for Children provides lessons that are complimentary to the parents. Depending on the age of the child, home based classes engage parents and child in attachment activities.
Community Based Education in Nurturing Parenting®
is a proven evidenced based parenting program series of ten lessons that include:
1. Understanding Feelings
2. Alternatives to Spanking
3. Communicating with Respect
4. Building Self-Worth in Children
5. Praising Children & Their Behavior
6. Ages & Stages of Growth for Infants & Toddlers
7. The Philosophy and Practices of Nurturing Parenting®
8. Learning Positive Ways to Deal with Stress & Anger
9. Understanding & Developing Family Morals, Values & Rules
10. Ways to Enhance Positive Brain Development in Children & Teen
Community Based Education for Military Families
is seven lessons addressing the uniqueness military parents face in raising their children. Lessons include:
1. Reuniting: Post Deployment
2. Keeping a Relationship Together
3. The Uniqueness of Military Family Life
4. Dealing with Deployment and Separation
5. Helping Children Cope with Deployment
6. Staying Connected during Deployment
7. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Alcohol and Kids Don’t Mix
is an innovative community based training program designed to increase the awareness of parents and professionals about the effects of alcohol and substance abuse on parenting and the quality of family life.
Alcohol, Anger and Abuse is an innovative community based training program for professionals and parents, this two-part series covers understanding, intervening and teaching nurturing skills to prevent the perpetuation of child abuse and neglect caused by alcohol and substance abuse. Alcohol and drug abuse are major contributors to child abuse and neglect. Because of this, persons treating substance abuse and addiction need the ability to recognize child abuse and neglect. Likewise, professionals in child abuse need to understand and recognize substance abuse.
This program covers the problems of child abuse and neglect caused by substance abuse and discusses appropriate interventions and treatments. It helps identify families with common patterns of alcohol and drug-related child abuse and family violence.
Families in Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery The Nurturing Program for Families in Substance Abuse Treatment & Recovery is built on the principles of relational development. We believe that success and satisfaction of parents and children improve as certain essential factors become more vital and pervasive within the relationship.
These factors are:
• Mutuality: Characterized by a dynamic, interactive sensitivity and responsiveness
• Authenticity: Freedom and ability to live within the relationship at a high level of exposure and vulnerability
• Empathy: Process by which the disclosure and sharing of oneself leads to a heightened sense of self, and of understanding another; self-awareness and self-acceptance enhance awareness and acceptance of others
Program Format
Each 1 ½ hour session begins with information from the facilitator about the topic and the group process. Goals, objectives, materials and preparation needed are listed for each session. Activities and exercises are designed to promote a high level of group participation and interaction. Each session ends with a wrap-up activity.
Who Should Participate?
Partners of parenting adults in treatment and recovery, extended family members who may be parenting children of substance abusing adults, and adults in treatment and/or recovery for substance abuse problems and who are in parenting relationships with children. Participants need not have children in order to benefit from this program.
Program Benefits
Parents explore their childhood experiences, their fears, and their strengths. Parents explore effects of substance abuse on themselves and their families, and strengthen their recovery. Parents develop self-awareness and build nurturing skills using a variety of techniques and activities that accommodate different learning styles. Parents explore their own process of development as adults in recovery, and examine the parallels and differences in the development of their children.
It's All About Being a Teen
is an engaging, evidence-informed curriculum designed to help adolescents build self-worth, emotional intelligence, resilience, and healthy relationship skills.
Grounded in the proven Nurturing Programs® framework, this interactive program helps teens explore the real challenges they face today—while developing the skills they need to make healthy decisions, communicate effectively, and build positive relationships.
Through activities such as role-playing, group discussions, creative self-expression, and personal reflection, teens actively participate in learning rather than simply listening. Each participant also builds a personal handbook throughout the program using lesson handouts, exercises, and self-assessments that reinforce learning outside the classroom.
The curriculum addresses topics that matter most to adolescents, including:
Self-esteem and personal empowerment
Healthy friendships and dating relationships
Communication and boundaries
Stress, anxiety, and peer pressure
Internet safety and social media awareness
Family relationships and personal history
Substance use prevention
Body image, self-care, and emotional well-being
It’s All About Being a Teen equips young people with the confidence, insight, and emotional skills they need to thrive—today and into adulthood.
Triple P – Enhanced (Positive Parenting Program)
Triple P Enhanced is designed for parents who are experiencing more complex family challenges, including child behavior concerns alongside issues such as parental stress, depression, or relationship conflict.
This program typically includes 3–8 individualized sessions lasting 60–90 minutes, providing targeted coaching and practical strategies to help parents address challenging behaviors and improve family functioning.
Participation is generally recommended for parents who have previously completed a Level IV Triple P program but require additional support.
Triple P – Group Stepping Stones
Triple P Group Stepping Stones is designed for parents seeking more intensive training in positive parenting strategies. This program helps parents develop practical tools to address challenging behaviors while promoting positive development in children.
The program includes:
Five 2-hour group sessions
Three individual 20-minute telephone consultations
Groups of up to 12 parents with children aged 0–12
Parents who participate learn a range of strategies that can be applied across many family situations and stages of child development.
Mandt Training (Relational Approach)
The Mandt System is a relationship-based crisis intervention program that focuses on building healthy relationships, de-escalating challenging behavior, and maintaining safety in high-stress environments.
The relational portion of the training emphasizes communication, emotional awareness, and respectful interaction as key tools for preventing and responding to conflict.
Stewards of Children Training
Stewards of Children is a nationally recognized training program that teaches adults practical steps they can take to prevent, recognize, and respond to child sexual abuse.
The training equips participants with the knowledge and tools needed to help create safer environments for children within families, organizations, and communities.