Parent Cafe

Our Parent Cafés are designed to be a safe space for parents to come together and receive information about key topics and then share information about what works with their own families!

Join us for a 1.5 or 2 hour session, of focused topics to help build trust and communication among your family. Topics include internet safety, screen time warnings, parenting tips and so much more. These sessions are designed to help parents and care takers enhance their support network while gathering information from our community partner leaders and moderators. When parents are able to share information, face-to-face, and ask questions without judgment or fear, it helps strengthen our entire community.

A sample session would look follow this format:

Meeting in a common, comfortable space.
5:00 – 5:30 Registration and Dinner
5:30 – Children go to supervised daycare room, parents to a meeting room
5:40 – Introductions and warm-up of material
5:50 – Café Conversations (2-20 minutes rounds)
6:30 – Conversation take aways
6:35 – Education and Statistics
6:50 – Closing and Next Steps
6:55 – Evaluation

Parent Cafe Question Card. RESILIENCE - Parental Resilience How has the topic changed in the past 10 years? Have you adjusted with it? How? RELATIONSHIPS - Social Connections - How has this topic impacted your relationships? Give examples of both positives and negatives. KNOWLEDGE - Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development - As a parent, how are you the same as and different from your parent in this area? How is your child the same as and different from how you were? SUPPORT - Concrete Support in Times of Need - Where have you learned about this topic? Where can you get good information? COMMUNICATION - Social and Emotional Competence of Children - How do you communicate you expectations to your children on this topic? How do you communicate with your children when your "rules" dealing with this subject don't match the expectations set by their peer's parents? Do you communicate with other parent's about this subject?

The format is very flexible, but will always include information to share, and time for parent-to-parent conversations.

Interested in hosting a parent café? Email or Call Jeanette at jeanette@fd-foundation.org or 515-573-3179