Rite Track works to promote well-being and child health by providing a skill-based training curriculum, Making Parenting a Pleasure, to young parents within Imperial County. Parents will gain knowledge in nurturing, understanding stress, managing anger as well as a general understanding of child development and modeling alternatives.
Rite Track’s Proud Parenting program serves eligible young parents, ages 14-24 who are within the County’s Probation or Social Services system and/or considered at-risk youth. Proud Parenting is committed in helping young parents:
- • Decrease parental distress and parent-child dysfunctional interactions
- • Reduce the number of incidents reported to child protective services
- • Reduce domestic violence-related parent offenses
- • Develop and practice anger management skills and model alternatives
- • Develop and practice positive discipline techniques
- • Develop and practice child’s health, safety, well-being, nurturing and nutrition needs
- • Increase knowledge of stages of early childhood development