ParentsPlace



 

Parents Place Express brings parenting workshops and expert consultation services directly to the corporate worksite, enabling working parents to get the information and support they need.

Parenting Education Yields Big Returns

Parents Place makes it easier for companies to help their employees juggle home and work life. This leads to:

  • Improved staff productivity and morale
  • Less absenteeism
  • Lower employee turnover
  • Increased staff camaraderie
  • Creating a family-friendly place to work

Topics that Matter

Parents Place Express offers over 20 different workshop topics, educating parents about the developmental needs of children from birth through adulthood. Our most popular topics include: Positive Discipline, Parenting as Partners, and Teaching Values and Responsibility.

For a complete list of our workshop topics, please contact your regional Parents Place center.

Dynamic Instructors

All of our speakers hold advanced degrees in education, child development or counseling, and are well versed in early childhood education, children's issues, and parenting concerns.

Workplace Services

Purchasing Single Workshops
You can provide your staff with a one-hour workshop--including all travel, expenses and collateral materials--at lunchtime, before or after work, or on the weekend.

Corporate Yearly Memberships
An annual company membership can include any of the following options:

  • Telephone or e-mail access to a child development specialist and parent educator
  • 1 hour workshops
  • Drop-in Play Center cards, good for five visits
  • A one-year membership to our parenting library

Coupon Books
Target the needs of the parents at your organization by providing them with coupons good for specific Parents Place services. This allows you to select the exact services you want in the quantities that you need.

  • Individual workshops held at Parents Place
  • Individual parent consultations (private sessions by phone or at Parents Place)
  • Drop-in Play Center cards, good for five visits
  • Yearly membership to our parenting library

Parenting Services for Employees at No Cost to the Company
If you have a group of 10 or more participants and can provide us with a space in which to run the program, your employees can schedule the parenting education workshop of their choice, register, and pay their fees directly to Parents Place on-line.

Feedback from Satisfied Customers:

Parents Place Express workshops have received rave reviews from top companies in the Bay Area including Oracle, Cisco, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Inhale Therapeutics, the San Jose Mercury News and SRI, as these quotes from their HR Directors affirm:

"It was a great accomplishment to provide such a welcome service to the families at Cisco Family Connection. I am looking forward to providing these resources to all Cisco families and our faculty."
                                                   -Dianna Ballesteros, Cisco

"We were thrilled with the quality of the sessions and the usefulness of the presenter's insights."
                                                   -Steven Gerhart, Epiphany Corporation

"You covered tons of great tips in a short amount of time. It was a very effective workshop!"
                                                   -Art Morgan, Nuance Corporation

Corporate Sponsors
  • San Rafael Mothers Club
  • Lucas Arts
  • GE Financial
  • Intel
  • Genentech
  • Cisco
Contact Us

Ready to explore what Parents Place Express can do for your company?

Please call:
Parents Place
PDF Parents Place Express Brochure Available
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San Francisco
       ParentsPlaceSF@jfcs.org
      (415) 359-2454

Marin
       ParentsPlaceMarin@jfcs.org
      (415) 491-7959

Peninsula
       ParentsPlacePeninsula@jfcs.org
      (650) 688-3040

Sonoma
       ParentsPlaceSonoma@jfcs.org
      (707) 571-2048
 
 



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