Summary of Services
- Provides parenting education and support
- Offers trauma-Informed and attachment-based programs, including TBRI® In-Home Coaching
- Provides safety and child protection, including group training on preventing and responding to child sexual and physical abuse
- Promotes emotional wellness and family healing with professionally guided sessions
- Offers a 12-session group-based mentorship focused on essential skills like budgeting, responsibility, and daily life management
- Provides assistance with organizational training and professional development
Fostering Stronger Bonds Between Parents and Children
The Playful Family is a community-focused organization committed to empowering families through education, coaching, and support services. Guided by its core framework, P.R.O.M.I.S.E., which stands for Parenting, Referrals, Outreach, Mental Wellness, Independent Living Skills, Social Support, and Enrichment, The Playful Family exists to foster stronger bonds between parents and children, create safer home environments, and promote healthy emotional development.
Whether through parenting classes, therapeutic visits, or family coaching, the organization focuses on building lasting, positive family interactions grounded in empathy, understanding, and evidence-based practices.
Classes on Personal Value and Problem Solving
The organization offers parenting courses priced between $25 and $250, ensuring that educational and supportive resources are accessible to families of various backgrounds. These help caregivers feel confident in guiding their children through all stages of development. One such offering, Making Sense of Your Worth, is a group class centered on self-discovery and personal value. It helps participants build confidence and recognize their unique strengths, which in turn improves how they parent and relate to their children.
Another program is the Positive Parenting Program (Triple P), which provides practical tools to help parents manage behavior in a positive, encouraging way. This course emphasizes relationship building, open communication, and proactive problem-solving strategies, helping caregivers navigate everyday parenting challenges while strengthening emotional connections within the family.
Workshops on Preventing Violence and Understanding Developmental Milestones
The Darkness to Light: Stewards of Children program is a group class that equips participants with the knowledge and tools to recognize, prevent, and appropriately respond to child sexual and physical abuse. This course advocates for creating safe, protective environments for children across all settings.
For parents looking to deepen their emotional connection and understanding of child development, the Nurturing Parenting Class offers a 12-session virtual course that explores how to support children’s emotional needs while fostering a nurturing, developmentally appropriate environment. Participants learn to recognize milestones and gain insights into how to adapt parenting strategies to meet their child’s needs better.
Trauma-informed care is a key focus for families navigating adoption, foster care, or recovery from difficult life events. The TBRI® (Trust-Based Relational Intervention) In-Home Coaching program offers personalized, in-home guidance for caregivers who are supporting children with trauma histories. This approach emphasizes connection, empowerment, and correction in a safe and nurturing way.
Additionally, The Playful Family offers an eight-week in-person TBRI class for caregivers, with a focus on practical parenting techniques to strengthen attachment and trust. Both options are especially beneficial for adoptive and foster parents.
Nurturing Confident Children, Teaching Life Skills, and Promoting Safety
For parents of younger children, the Circle of Security class is an eight-session course that supports healthy attachment and emotional development. Through interactive activities involving music and sensory play, this class is especially effective for children under the age of five, helping caregivers nurture secure, confident children.
The Parenting Assessment is another valuable service that provides one-on-one consultation and feedback. Designed to give parents more profound insight into their parenting style, this service offers constructive recommendations and encourages self-reflection to help families grow stronger and more united.
Safety is at the heart of The Playful Family’s supervised visitation services. These sessions allow children and parents to spend quality time together in a safe, structured environment, which can be at home, in a public setting, or at The Playful Family’s facility. The organization also offers a supervised coaching visit service, which combines real-time parenting guidance with a supervised visitation format, helping parents build stronger relationships while ensuring their child’s comfort.
Life preparation is another focus, with the Independent Life Skills Program offering a 12-session, group-based mentorship experience. This program teaches essential life skills such as financial literacy, job readiness, household responsibilities, and healthy communication, equipping participants for successful independent living.
Teaching Children and Teens About Divorce and Offering Therapeutic Sessions
Children and teens navigating the emotional impact of separation or divorce can benefit from the Teens and Children Cooperating Through Divorce course. This program provides a supportive space for participants aged 5 to 17 to express their feelings, ask questions, and develop healthy coping strategies. Classes are held on the last Thursday of each month, with sessions for ages 5–10 at 4:30 p.m. and ages 11–17 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
In addition to educational and coaching programs, The Playful Family offers therapeutic visitation sessions facilitated by licensed professionals. These sessions provide a safe, emotionally supportive setting where parents and children can reconnect, communicate openly, and work through challenges under professional guidance. The focus is on creating a space where each family member feels validated, and supported.
Offering Expanded Training Sessions for Organizations to Enhance Productivity
The Playful Family also extends its services to organizations seeking to strengthen internal support systems and staff development. Organizational training sessions focus on boosting morale, reinforcing best practices, increasing staff confidence, and offering strategies to enhance productivity and team collaboration. For more information or to sign up for courses and services, visit The Playful Family’s website.