Lancaster

Are you an adoptive/kinship or step-parent who wants to strengthen your relationship with your child/teen?

Circle of Security is all about relationships: what makes for secure relationships and what we as parents can do to create stronger and safer attachments. This is particularly challengeing if we have come into a child's life later eg., as foster or adoptive parents, step-parents or grandparents. Sometimes our children come to us after experiencing trauma and maybe they have never felt safe with their parents or previous caregivers.

Circle of Security - Parenting (COSP)

*Childcare WILL be provided*

At times all parents feel lost or without a clue about what our child might need from us. Imagine what it might feel like if you were able to make sense of what your child was really asking from you. The Circle of Security® Parenting™ program is based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened.

Using the COS-P model developed by the Circle of Security originators, our trained Facilitators work with parents and care-givers to help them to:

This class is Spanish-speaking only.

A Saturday morning class for young adults up to age 26 who are parenting children (1-5). Child care will be provided. The class is funded by a grant so there is no charge for parents.

It is an eight week class with the opportuntiy to participate in a research project with a doctoral student at UNL studying Mindful Self-Compassion.  Participants who join the research project can earn up to $230 for their participation in surveys, interviews and observations with their child. 

CIrcle of Security Parenting group a reflective group focused on how to strengthen the relationship between caregivers and their children.  

Circle of Security Parenting group is an opportunity to join other parents just like you, for an 8 week class where you'll learn to: 1)Strengthen your relationship with your child. 2) Be present with your child druing the best and toughest of times. 3) Recognize your child's needs and make sense of his or her behavior. 4) Meet your child's needs by being bigger, stronger, wiser and kind.  

Somtimes being "Good Enough" is all it takes. 

Circle of Security Parenting is an opportunity to join other parents just like you, for an 8-week class where you'll learn to:

• Strengthen your relationship with your child
• Be present with your child during the best and toughest of times
• Recognize your child's needs by being bigger, stronger, wiser and kind

Sometime "Good Enough" is all it takes. 

Circle of Security Parenting is an opportunity to join other parents just like you, for an 8-week class where you'll learn to:

• Strengthen your relationship with your child
• Be present with your child during the best and toughest of times
• Recognize your child's needs by being bigger, stronger, wiser and kind

Are you an adoptive/kinship or step-parent who wants to strengthen you relationship with your child/teen?

Are you interested in learning new ways to understand your child/teen's needs and behaviors?

At times, have you been afraid that it is "too late?"

This Saturday morning class is geared for foster/adoptive and step-parents who have come into a child's life later.