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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 Indira López.

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.

Plaza Comuntaria

A joint partnership between Calistoga Family Center and the Mexican Consulate, Plaza Comunitaria assists adult learners in completing their elementary, secondary, and high school certification. Classes are a self-paced learning experience in Spanish, English as a second language, math, science, social studies, and general education. The program incorporates print, multi media and computer based curriculums.

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.

Home Visitation

Provided by: Cope Family Center

Mom’s Club

Meet other moms in the community. This group meets twice a month for an hour of sharing parenting experiences with other moms and tots.

Parents want to provide a secure, safe, caring home for their families, yet stress and miscommunication are very real barriers to that goal. A home visitor works with the family as they define the issues in their household, supporting the parents and the family structure, and assisting the family as they work toward their desired goal.

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.

Active Kids

Provided by: Calistoga Family Center

Through this weekly 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