Program areas at Cope Family Center
Parent education and support: provides parents with the support and skills to build strong Family relationships. Promotes healthy families by reducing stress, improving parenting skills, strengthening parent confidence, developing coping skills and building resiliency. Services include home visiting, triple p positive parenting program, and peer support. Home visiting clients work with their Family support provider as early as prenatally and until age five or until the child enters kindergarten. Together, they create goals that build upon the Family's strengths, promote parent-child connectedness, and create self sufficiency. Triple p helps parents develop skills, strategies, and confidence to handle any parenting situation. Designed for parents of children ages 2-16 years.
Family resource Center: provides drop-in support and resources for parents during difficult times. Staff connects struggling parents with the programs, services, and community resources needed to help address their concerns and meet their Family's needs. Services include crisis intervention, emergency assistance such as grocery and gas gift cards, diapers, baby wipes, formula and baby food; and referrals to additional Cope services, and other community agencies and nonprofits for further assistance.
Advocacy and civic engagement: we work to bring positive change to systematic issues affecting children and families by: promoting civic engagement and encouraging families to get involved in issues that are important to them; advocating at the local, state and federal level for legislation and policies that impact physical, economic and social development of children and families; providing professional trainings to help partner organizations better serve children and families; and building community education and awareness about the impact of abuse and neglect in our community. We collaborate with local nonprofits and government agencies to make our collective voices heard through the following projects: lead agency for the child abuse prevention council of napa county; member and fiscal lead for the community leaders coalition; and leader of resilient napa.