Parents Care + Share
Need Support for the Challenges of Parenting?
Being a parent is one of the toughest jobs there is. Parents Care + Share can help by easing the stress and frustration that comes with raising children. Join other parents as they come together to learn, listen, understand, and encourage one another.
A Parents Care + Share group gives us a place to take a break from the hard job of parenting, to feel safe to talk about painful issues, to laugh over our mistakes, and to learn from—and give support to—others. Being part of a group is one way to relieve stress.
Children's Home + Aid's Parents Care + Share program has groups throughout the Chicagoland area and central Illinois. Groups are generally open to anyone who is parenting, such as biological parents, grandparents raising their grandchildren, single parents, stepparents, foster parents, other relative or nonrelative caregivers, or parents who do not have custody. Some groups only serve a specific type of parent, such as teen parents, parents of autistic children, or adoptive parents. No matter how often or how rarely you come to group, you are always welcome.
Military Families Raising Children: Sharing a Common Bond
The stresses of military service can take its toll on parents and children. To compound the difficulties, many military families are often spread out in communities and isolated from each other and from the family resources of a military base. To provide help and support for military parents and caregivers from all branches—active, inactive, reserve & veterans, including civilian spouses and grandparents who are raising children, Children’s Home + Aid announces the opening of a new support group for military families.
When: Two Tuesdays per month beginning January 17, 2012 (see events for upcoming meetings)
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Where: Marletta Darnall Schaumburg Child + Family Center
725 E. Schaumburg Road
Schaumburg, IL 60194
Cost: FREE Parent support group! FREE Child care & children’s program! FREE Dinner at every meeting for parents and children!
For more information, please contact Pam Schnell at 312-513-9650 or email pschnell@childrenshomeandaid.org. >press release >meeting flyer
Volunteers Needed!
The Parent’s Care + Share program needs volunteers to serve as Children’s Program Specialists. Volunteers would do age appropriate activities with children while their parents attend group meetings.
If you are interested in volunteering with Parent’s Care + Share, please email Katie Clothier at kclothier@childrenshomeandaid.org or by phone at (309) 834-4231.
Parents Care + Share is offered in the Metropolitan and Mid-Central Regions. For more information about Parents Care + Share, please call Earl Kloppmann at 312-455-5276, or email to ekloppma@childrenshomeandaid.org.
Find a Parents Care + Share group near you.
For an annual look at Parent's Care + Share, please see FY'11 Snapshots of Parents Care + Share.
The Parents Care + Share newsletter The Parent Break is published quarterly.
The Parent Break - Spring-Summer 2012
The Parent Break Archive
Find Parents Care + Share on Facebook.
Parents Care + Share is the only Illinois affiliate of the Circle of Parents National Network.
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