Family Support Services

Parent Enrichment is a series of available parenting classes:

PARENTING THE LOVE & LOGIC WAY

The Parenting the Love and Logic Way curriculum focuses on providing parents with practical skills to build positive relationships with their children while fostering personal responsibility and respect. Key aspects include teaching parents how to avoid power struggles, set enforceable limits, and empower their children to learn from mistakes. The curriculum promotes a calm and enjoyable parenting experience, emphasizing discipline without losing love and raising responsible, respectful kids.

The program is designed to be engaging, using real-life stories and humor to help parents retain and apply the techniques. It’s suited for children of all ages and encourages parents to feel more relaxed and positive about their parenting roles. Key strategies include staying calm in difficult situations, avoiding enabling behaviors, and fostering a collaborative family environment where kids are encouraged to be contributing members.

LOVE & LOGIC: ADULTS SUPPORTING YOUTH WITH CHALLENGING PASTS

The Love and Logic: Adults Supporting Youth with Challenging Pasts curriculum helps caregivers, such as foster parents, educators, and counselors, support youth who’ve experienced trauma. It focuses on understanding trauma’s effects on the brain, building attachment relationships, and avoiding power struggles. Participants will learn empathy-based strategies to guide youth toward success. The program includes six modules covering defiance, setting limits, and promoting learning. It’s designed to provide actionable solutions for working with children who need hope and healing.

NUTURING PARENTING SKILLS FOR FAMILIES IN SUPERVISED VISITATION

An innovative program designed to empower parents and parent educators in creating customized, competency-based parenting programs to meet the specific needs of families. It consists of 45 lessons, each lasting between approximately 30 minutes that are intended to either precede a supervised visitation, or be incorporated into the visit. The lessons are taken from the evidenced-based Nurturing Parenting Programs for Parents and Their Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers, and Parents and Their School Age Children. Based on the assessed needs of the family, parents and parent educators work together and select competency-based lessons from the curriculum to form a parenting/visitation program that is customized to meet the specific needs of the families.

PARENTS FOREVER

Children are affected for years to come by decisions that divorcing parents make during the initial phase of divorce. The Parents Forever divorce education sessions are intended to provide divorcing couples or those contemplating divorce with the information they need to make decisions that will minimize the stress of this transition for the entire family.

The program has been a vital resource since its inception in 1994 and is recognized by the Minnesota Supreme Court. It focuses on child well-being and effective co-parenting strategies.

Contact information:
Family Support Services Coordinator: 
familyservices@prc-austinmn.org
Office: 507-437-8330  |  Cell: 507-438-1270

The Seibel Center was named after the late Honorable Judge Michael H. Seibel, who was committed to ending violence against women and children. The logo, designed by Kecia Freed, represents a child in the center of the crossroads which come together at the Seibel Center under the watchfulness and safety that Judge Seibel represented both professionally and personally.

The Michael H. Seibel Family Visitation and Exchange Center is a designated facility which facilitates the exchange and visitation of children by and between custodial and non-custodial parents while monitoring and maintaining safety for all participants. The central focus is to provide supervised visitation and safe exchange services that centralize safety and provide equal regard for adult and child victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, child abuse and/or stalking.

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Contact Information:
Seibel Program Lead
seibel@prc-austinmn.org, 507-434-7550

Basic Needs Pantry- We have personal care items available for clients/families who are in need. All the items we have in stock are donation based.

Diaper Program- A bundle of 10-15 diapers (depending on size) will be given to families along with 1 pack of wipes per household. We have sizes newborn to 6 available. An ID is required, and we also ask for a short form to be filled out. Families can use this service once a month anytime during business hours.

Clothes Closet- We have kid’s clothing with sizes ranging from 3t to 14/16. Families can use this service twice a year, one time in the summer/spring and again during the fall/winter. Appointments are required. 507-437-8330