Parenting

For this course, a doula comes on-site to work with the LGH’s expecting moms to focus on ways to move that are safe and provide comfort for expecting women. Expecting moms learn from the doula a curriculum that fills in education gaps and addresses pregnancy nutrition, also complementing the nutrition education recommendations of EFNEP from UNR Cooperative Extension. The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is the nation's first nutrition education program for low-income populations. It remains at the forefront of nutrition education efforts to reduce nutrition insecurity of low-income families and youth today.

The EFNEP curriculum does not explicitly focus on pregnancy and postpartum nutrition, thus, LGH’s doula covers this critical material. This course also provides hands-on opportunities to prepare nutritious meals with LGH’s expectant moms.

Triple P  Parenting

The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program – is one of the world’s most effective evidence-based parenting programs, backed up by more than 35 years of ongoing research. Triple P gives parents simple and practical strategies to help them build strong, healthy relationships, confidently manage their children’s behavior, and prevent problems from developing. Triple P is used in more than 30 countries and has been shown to work across cultures, socio-economic groups, and in many different kinds of family structures.

• Module 1: Positive Parenting
• Module 2: Raising Confident, Competent Children
• Module 3: Power of Positive Parenting

These classes are usually delivered as a package where all 3 are introduced in succession.

Loving Hearts Adoption Information Workshop

This class aims to educate young moms about the adoption process and how it works, address biases and outdated information, and empower them to make informed decisions for themselves and their babies about whether adoption is an option for them. Loving Hearts Adoption staff talk to residents about their perceptions of adoption in an open conversation and answer any questions the residents may have about the process of adopting a child and the process of a parent putting their child up for adoption.

Toxic Stress and Child Development

The early years of childhood are the most crucial for brain development. Stressful environments can negatively affect a child’s emotional, social, and physical development. Residents are provided with an overview of how stress can affect brain development and are shown how to identify potentially unsafe children and the steps to take when suspicion arises.

Toxic Stress II

This course provides residents with the tools needed to help limit toxic stress in their children such that the child’s development is not disrupted. This includes not only shielding children from severe stress, but also how to respond to and provide supportive care to children when under significant stress.

Love & Logic Parenting

Love and Logic Parenting Online, created by Jim Fay and Charles Fay, Ph.D., tackles the everyday obstacles of parenting to break down how you can better understand and overcome issues as they arise. Based on decades of clinical experience, this course will teach residents the most effective parenting methods for nearly any situation. It is filled with proven methods that will help the mothers understand and overcome most parenting challenges in order to help them raise healthy, happy, well-rounded kids.

Infant CPR & Rescue Class

The American Heart Association Family & Friends “Infant CPR and Choking” (birth to one year) course is for those who want to learn infant CPR but do NOT need a course completion card in CPR. Skills are taught in a dynamic group environment using the AHA’s research-proven “practice-while-watching” technique, which provides residents with the most hands-on CPR practice time possible in order to learn how to save a life.