Each year, Alma Community Care offers parenting workshops in the spring and fall to families in the Greater Logan Heights community. Each seminar is presented by licensed marriage and family therapists (learn more) and is available free of charge to seminar attendees, as well as family and friends. Explore the list of available seminars below.
How to Develop Your Childs Esteem
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Self-esteem is the cornerstone of our children's ability to grow into happy, healthy adults. When you believe in yourself and identify your inner and outer strengths, you have the tools to overcome challenges.
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Childhood Bullying
Bullying is the use of aggression with the intent to hurt another person physically, verbally, or through social media. MYTH: Words will never hurt you. FACT: Even though words don't leave bruises or broken bones, they can leave deep emotional scars​​​.​
How Trauma Impacts Your Child
Trauma is the emotional response usually resulting from experiencing distress. The DSM-5 defines it as "actual or threatened death, serious injury, threat to the physical safety of self or another, or sexual violence."
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Positive Parenting Tactics
The use of consistent consequences such as timeouts and taking away privileges, helps eliminate unwanted behaviors. Rewarding appropriate behavior is even more effective than giving consequences for unwanted behaviors.​
Setting Limits With Your Children
Guidelines and rules established by parents or caregivers to help children understand what is expected of them and teach them how to behave in different situations.
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Unified Parenting
A parenting style that involves parents working together to raise their children. It can include showing grace, learning, and consistency.
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Strengthening Family Relationships
Family dynamics involve close connections, intimate experiences and challenges, with 3 essential conditions for growth: 1) Empathy, 2) Acceptance and 3) Genuineness.
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Conflict Resolution With Our Children
Mental health is a state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own activities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.​
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Supporting Our Childs Emotions
Learn how to help your child develop competence, confidence and mastery ​in handling their emotions, and to use them positively.
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Childhood Anxiety
Anxiety disorders are a group of mental illnesses that cause constant and overwhelming fear. Learn what they are and understanding them.​
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Parenting Through Anger
Understand anger and parenting, gain awareness of the role, use and purpose of anger, and develop tools and strategies to manage anger effectively​
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Navigating Teenage Emotions
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Learn the developmental cycles of your teen and how to effectively understand what they're going through.
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Raising Resilient Children
When kids do things on their own. Modeling calm builds resilience. ​Growth mindset. If your child can do it, let them even if it takes longer or gets messy.
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Communicating With Your Child
Communication is a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior. The main goal of communication is mutual understanding and connection, through ideas, values, feelings, objectives, aspirations, agreements, and plans.​
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Practicing Patient Parenting
Being a parent isn't about biology or authority, it is about selfless love, deep, understanding, and constant presence. ​ This seminar will discuss the power of positive parenting and ingredients for healthy families.
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