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Learn more ways to raise happy, healthy kids. The Center offers classes to parents of children ages 0-18. Classes are taught by trained parent educators. Parents can borrow any number of books from our resource library.

For more information on these programs, email Irma Sanchez.

Active Kids

During this preschool activity hour, parents and their children connect with each other by sharing Raising a Reader books, participating in bilingual songs and dances, and doing art projects that are easily replicated at home. Check our calendar of events for date.

Parent Leadership Institute

Provided by: Calistoga Family Center

Become involved in your community. Be an advocate for your child's education. Be a decision maker in your organization. Learn how to navigate the community system and take the reins of community leadership.

Raising a Reader

Provided by: Calistoga Family Center

All children love books – especially young children! Parents who share and read books with children from infancy to age five are helping to prepare their children for kindergarten and nurturing a child’s love and enjoyment of learning that can last a lifetime. Sign- up today to begin a no cost, weekly book exchange program for your children ages zero to three.

Resource Library

Provided by: Calistoga Family Center

Do you really understand your teenager? Know how to calm a fussy child? Want to improve your family's communication? This knowledge and more is awaiting your discovery in the Family Resource Library.

Parents as Educators

Provided by: Calistoga Family Center

Parents with young children receive training in the comfort of their own home with other community parents. Learn the basics of family nutrition, how to provide positive discipline for your children, or the process of child development.

Positive Discipline for Adolescents

Provided by: Calistoga Family Center

Living with a teen? Parents can receive training in their own home with the parents of their teenager's friends to discover the methods and tactics of positive discipline for adolescents. Develop a strategy of teen discipline with the other parents.

School Readiness

Provided by: Calistoga Family Center

How exciting is the first day of school? The Family Center helps prepare each child for kindergarten with a special backpack of their very own. It is packed full of fun activities, books and games, and is presented to the child and parent by our own education coordinator. The parents are shown how each activity prepares the child for success in kindergarten.

Child Care Resources

Provided by: Community Resources for Children

Looking for the perfect setting for your child’s care while you work? CRC can help you find and pay for a licensed childcare setting. Family Center staff will help you to connect to CRC’s many resources by filling out an application and connecting you to their knowledgeable counselors. Interested in starting your own childcare business? CRC will help you through the licensing process.