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Welcome
| Listen to Their Heart Cry "Loving children is listening to their hearts' cry and then doing something about it." ~ Michelle |
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Welcome to Heart Cry Parenting.TM Heart Cry ParentingTM was founded by Michelle Hurtt as a result of her experience as a Social Worker and was created to help social service agencies, foster care agencies, schools, churches, and parent groups meet their parent education needs. Heart Cry ParentingTM offers both direct and train-the-trainer parent education workshops and specializes in educating parents about the special parenting needs of traumatized children. Our mission is to help children who have been physicially, emotionally, and sexually abused by educating caregivers about their special needs. Our goal: To facilitate safe, loving, and healing home environments for children who have been or remain in foster care.
The train-the-trainer parent education workshops can help your organization realize your goals. These train-the-trainer parent education workshops are designed to give trainers step-by-step instruction for how to effectively deliver each of the parent education classes listed below and how to develop useful Family Action Plans. These workshops have been designed specifically for parents of traumatized children. Upon request, we will meet with agency directors to design a training program that meets your specific training needs. Workshops currently being offered are:
- Parenting Basics for First-Time Parents
- Child Development: Ages & Stages
- Creating a Safe and Healing Environment
- Parenting the Traumatized Child
- The Role of Play and the Traumatized Child
- Discipline and the Traumatized Child
- The Effects of Child Abuse on Child Development
- How to Rebuild and Strengthen Your Family After Foster Care
- Structure & Function of Foster Parent-Child Relationships
- Child Sexual Abuse: Prevention & Intervention
- Attachment and The Traumatized Child
- What About Me? Self-Care for Struggling Mothers
- Child Abuse: Identifying Red Flags
- Child Development and the Traumatized Child
- The Devastating Effects of Child Sexual Abuse
- Helping Parents Rebuild and Strengthen Their Families After Foster Care
- How to Start a Mentor-a-Mother Program
- God's Gift: Loving Your Child Unconditionally
We also offer seminars and workshops for staff development, in-service trainings, parent teacher conferences, and church retreats on such topics as:
If your organization is interested in direct or train-the-trainer parent education workshops, seminars for staff development, in-service trainings conducted at your site, or if you are in need of a keynote speaker for an upcoming event, contact us for more information. We look forward to serving you.