Overview
Lack of time, lack of skills, and every day stressors play a role in creating barriers to good family communication and involvement in schools. We tackle these barriers because they exist, because we are optimistic that these challenges can be overcome, and because we believe families can develop good communication and be successful.

Metropolitan Family Service provides researched based parent and family services that strengthen families, help children succeed, and create strong connections to the community.

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Please call to register with Laura Knechtges at 503.232.0007 ext. 121, or laurak@metfamily.org


MFS Parent and Family Goals

• Improve parenting skills
• Reduce parent stress and isolation
• Encourage parent involvement in
  children’s learning
• Provide greater access to resources
• Improve family communication
• Decrease risky behavior in children

MFS Parent and Family Services

• Guiding Good Choices Classes and Workshops that teach parents healthy communication for their family
• Make Parenting A Pleasure Classes that provides support for parents and tools for positive parenting.
• Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors is a parent leadership training program for Latino parents with children 0-5 years of age.
• Mind in the Making - essentiall life skills pilot project with Multnomah County - see http://web.multco.us/sun/multnomah-mind-making. For more information, contact Laura Knechtges at 503.232.0007 ext. 121, or laurak@metfamily.org.

Parent Education Success
Parents and families struggle with daily issues including good communication, family conflict and stress, anger management, isolation, and risky behavior in children.

We recognize the inherent difficulty in parenting and the need to reinforce support systems. Parenting services provide an understanding of child development, and concrete ways to deal with the challenges of raising children.

Parent and family education groups are offered in Spanish and English in elementary schools and community sites in Multnomah and Clackamas counties.

MFS engages the energy, resources, and time of many community partners and volunteers to provide parent and family services in the Greater Portland region.

Our community partners include nonprofit providers, businesses, schools, and funders. With these collaborations, MFS provides parent and family services to more than 30,000 individuals each year.

Your Support
We welcome your support. For more information contact Parent Education at 503.232.0007, ext. 121 or laurak@metfamily.org.