Children's Advocacy Center of Collier County provides the Parent Education Program. This program offers voluntary community parenting classes and comprehensive in-home, group, and online court-ordered parenting classes.

Parenting Education Focuses on:

• Understanding the appropriate developmental expectations of children
• Developing empathy for their own needs and the needs of their children
• Appropriate discipline strategies
• Understanding appropriate parent-child roles
• Developing a child's age-appropriate power and independence

Please call or visit website for more information.

Pathways to Care helps Central Florida's homeless population. They offer healthcare services and case management. They may also be able to help manage chronic illness and disability. Please call or visit website for more information.

This group offers peer support groups. They believe that peer support is important to recovery for people with mental illness. The groups bring people with similar experiences together. The meetings are confidential and informal. Please call or visit the website for more information.

Support Groups Available For:

• Depression
• IDF
• Teen Transgender Group: Families & Allies
• Veterans

Precious Hearts Foundation Inc. offers help to victims of domestic abuse. They offer a range of programs

They provide:

• Clothing
• Counseling
• Crisis intervention
• Household goods
• Hygiene items
• Nonperishable food items
• Transportation

Please call for more information.

This agency provides pregnancy and parental counseling. They offer referrals and parenting classes. Their "Earn While You Learn" program is a prenatal and parenting program. Please see the website for all services.

Services include:

• Abortion alternatives information
• Abstinence education
• Adoption options
• Limited ultrasounds
• Material assistance for newborns to 12 months
• Parenting support
• Peer counseling
• Pregnancy tests
• Prenatal and parenting classes for both women and men
• Referrals for community resources