We envision relationships based on mutual respect and dignity leading to healthier, safer, and more just societies. Our mission is to support our community of families, schools, and service providers in learning how to have respectful relationships through the teaching and practice of Positive Discipline.
Parenting is hard! It is humbling and can feel isolating at times. Your gift helps us create greater access to Positive Discipline’s whole-child, whole-family relationship-based approach for 1,000+ families across our diverse county.
Our program is evidence-based, trauma-informed, culturally-responsive, and developmentally appropriate, providing 120+ programs year-round in English, Spanish and Mixteco (Indigenous language to Oaxaca, Mexico). We receive more requests for parenting support than we can fill. Beyond parenting skills for difficult child behaviors, our training breaks cycles of harm and is deeply healing. Your gift supports our “connection before correction” programs via coaching, workshops, classes, playgroups, and parent/youth learning groups.
We shift heart, homes, and school communities away from threats and bribes (strategies that invoke shame, blame, and guilt) for encouraging and empowering social and life skills.
I love the sessions on encouragement, I really struggle with being a people pleaser. I want better for my children. I'm learning how to practice love and limits, that our kids need guidance, and how to be a kind and firm leader in our home.
Mother working/raising children in SC
