The Parenting Place Inc

Our child care services program supports child care businesses in developing high quality child care for area families. We provide them with technical assistance to help create sound child care businesses. We also offer professional development opportunities so that early care and education professionals can provide the best possible care of our youngest children. We prepare customized child care referral lists for families looking for child care and educate them on how to choose a high quality provider that suits their particular needs.

The family exchange and visitation program helps families affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, dating violence and related child abuse to have safe, supported time between parents and children. Family exchanges are the schedule and supervised transfer of a child(ren) from one parent to another at the parenting place facility. Family visitations are scheduled contact between a parent and child at the parenting place facility and observed by a direct service staff member. The family interaction program (fip) is a targeted program that provides supervised visits and parenting skills development for parents who are working with la crosse county child protective services as the result of a substantiated report of child abuse or neglect. A family's social worker determines which service the family receives and authorizes the number of service hours per week. Services may occur at one of the parenting place locations, a family's home or other community-based location.

The parent education and support programs are available to any parent or other caregiver of children free of charge. There are no income requirements and no target population because we know that parenting is difficult for all of us, no matter our income, ethnicity, or educational background and because we all want to give the best of ourselves to our children. The parenting place's programs help parents to find and recognize their strengths so they can build on their positive attributes to be the best parents that they can be.