Human Services
The Arlington County Parent Education Program
The Parent Education Program is part of Arlington County's Department of Human Services, Division of Child and Family Services. The mission of the Parent Education Program (PEP) is to strengthen families by providing parents and other family members with the parenting tools, strategies and skills to help provide a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment for their children. The Parent Education Program offers parenting classes and workshops, an online parenting parent education program, and information and referral services for other Arlington County and Northern Virginia parenting resources.
Services
The Arlington County Parent Education Program (PEP) offers a variety of free parenting programs for Arlington County residents. Classes offered are tailored to a variety of parenting needs and aim to provide parents with a nurturing and supportive environment where they can openly discuss their parenting concerns and gain insightful, up-to-date, research-based parenting information, tools, strategies and techniques for raising children in today’s society. Some classes are available specifically to parents who are mandated to take parenting classes by the courts or social services or who are referred by county service providers; other classes are open to the general public. Classes are available in English and Spanish. Childcare is available when necessary. Two to six hour workshops (with childcare) are also available. Requests for workshops at your site should be directed to the Parent Education Coordinator at dhsparenteducation (at) arlingtonva.us
Programs offered include:
- Classes: By Referral Only
- Parenting with Success: Ages 0–18 (in English)
- Crianza con Exito (in Spanish)
- Individualized Parenting Classes
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- Classes: Open to the Community
- Parenting with Success: The Teen Years (Crianza con Exito: La Adolescencia): Offered in English and Spanish to parents of teens
- Emotion Coaching: A Mindful Parenting Approach: For parents of middle-school age children
- Parent Chat: In English for all Arlington parents
- Nuestros Hijos: For Spanish-speaking parents of children ages 0–5
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- Workshops
- One-Time Workshops
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- Online Parent Education Program
- Ask a Parent Education Expert: Get answers to your parenting questions
- Learn New Parenting Skills at Home: Home-based learning modules can be sent to you for at-home learning
- Parent Resource Request Library: Request available parenting materials
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View the schedule of classes and workshops. Use the Class Registration Form (23K PDF format) to register for classes. For more information about upcoming parenting classes, please contact the Parent Education Program at 703-228-1551.
For Service Providers
Are you a social worker, teacher, counselor, probation officer, nurse, or community resource assistant? Do you work with parents in need of parent education services? Learn more about referring clients to our "by referral only" classes by clicking here.
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Parent Education Program
DHS, Child and Family Services
2100 Washington Boulevard, 3rd Floor | MAP
Arlington, VA 22204
Phone: 703-228-1551
Fax: 703-228-1172
Email: DHSparenteducation (at) arlingtonva.us
Cheryl Fuentes, Coordinator
