AKOKO-NAN PARENTING EDUCATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT GROUP
239 W Washington Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
626-807-4178
EXPERIENCE AKOKO-NAN PARENTING EDUCATION & ENCOURAGEMENT GROUP
WHO WE ARE
Our mission is to provide evidence-based family support services and parent education in a culturally sensitive and encouraging environment, helping families and communities become a source of positive energy and positive outcomes for children.We are a nonprofit child and family services agency specializing in parenting education. We believe in the power of family and in the support system of community. It does "take a village to raise a child”.
WHAT WE DO
Working Towards a Better Tomorrow
Given the current challenges facing children in a culture of social media, streaming entertainment, unlimited information and instant gratification, communities must assume more responsibility over the environment’s influence of our children. For this reason, here at Akoko-Nan we utilize trained members from the community as facilitators. Parents certified through the Akoko-Nan program have become peer facilitators.
Over a series of 16 teaching sessions , we discuss the responsibility to parent effectively in major areas affecting the lives of children. By sharing their own personal experiences, peer facilitators serve as models for the participants in the program, helping parents develop the confidence to try new parenting techniques. Parents are encouraged to embrace change and seek self-improvement as priorities in order to minimize dysfunction in their own households.
ADMINISTRATORS
Committed to the Cause
Not only do facilitators train parents in parenting techniques but also assist, guide and encourage parents as they navigate the Children’s Court, Criminal Court and Family Law Court systems. Peer facilitators have stories of success, as well as struggles and failures and readily share their experiences with participants in the program. Peer facilitators help parents feel confident about outcomes when they are consistent with their efforts to make self-change and change in their household.
TEAM MEMBER
Job Title
MYLES WILLAMS
Peer Facilitator
HORACIO GARCIA
Peer Facilitator
DR. WENDY WOODS
Program Director
Quote of the Day
"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love"
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We are the recorders and reporters of fact- not the judges of the behaviors we describe"
-Alfred Kinsey
"Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal"
-Benjamin Spock
"To change a problem you must accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses"
-Carl Jung
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does"
-William James
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Address:
239 W Washington Blvd, Pasadena, CA 9110
Thursdays at
6:30 p.m.
Classes online until further notice
Email:
Phone:
626-807-4178
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