North Valley non-profit offering free parent classes to families

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- A North Valley non-profit wants to enactment parents successful Central California, and they're offering classes astatine nary cost.

ACE Overcomers is seeking to assistance families recognize however accent not lone affects them but besides their kids. CEO and founder, Dave Lockridge, founded ACE Overcomers 15 years ago.

Their ngo is to interruption the rhythm of adverse puerility experiences, besides known arsenic ACEs. The radical has not lone helped radical successful Central California but besides internationally.

"We're present to spouse with the parents," said Lockridge. "Give you the skills needed to consciousness assured successful your parenting."

Next month, ACE Overcomers volition beryllium holding 2 parenting sessions astatine the Atwater United Methodist Church. The extremity is to assistance parents amended relationships with their kids, arsenic good arsenic recognize however toxic accent impacts a child's health.

"We interruption it down into precise understandable concepts of Bossy Bob, Spoiler Sam, Detached Dave, and Relational Rick," explained Lockridge. "If you recognize these antithetic parenting styles, you're going to amended recognize however you tin subordinate to your child."

Lockridge tells Action News they privation to assistance families navigate the pressures of life.

"Give the parents the tools they request for self-control and self-awareness," said Lockridge. "Moderating their emotions and responses."

The parenting classes are escaped due to the fact that they don't privation costs to beryllium a obstruction for families.

The people volition beryllium offered not conscionable successful English, but besides successful Spanish, which is being done successful collaboration with Cultiva la Salud of Central California.

"All of the materials are translated into Spanish," said Lockridge. "So we marque it precise casual for those of the Hispanic civilization to travel and larn these precise important parenting skills."

Lockridge says they're besides partnering with Valley Children's Healthcare and Central California Alliance for Health.

The sessions are unfastened to parents of children of immoderate age.

Lockridge believes that these classes are 1 of the steps that tin assistance interruption the rhythm of maltreatment and neglect for kids.

Parents who privation to registry tin click here.

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