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.

MHASWFL offers peer support groups for people with mental illnesses. These groups bring people dealing with similar things together. The meetings are private and informal. Please call or visit the website to learn more.

Groups Include:

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

The Department of Children and Families (DCF) offers services and care for adults and children. This program is for people with serious mental health conditions and addiction. They have options for mental health care and treatments. Please call or visit the website to learn more.

Services Include:

NAMI offers a variety of support groups. They help with mental health for all ages. Please call or visit the website to learn more.

Available Support Groups:

• DBT Peer-run Skills Training
• Family Members/Caregivers
• Hearing Voices/Seeing Things
• NAMI Connection
• Recovery Skills

This agency offers support groups to help people with PD and their caregivers. The groups are in-person and virtually and are free. Please call or visit the website to learn more.

Support groups include:

• Care Partners
• Couples
• Female Care Partners
• General
• Male Care Partners
• Men with PD
• Women with PD

Children's Advocacy Center of Collier County provides Therapy Services. They offer specialized treatment for children who are victims of abuse, as well as their families through a combination of group, family, and individual counseling.

Therapy Services Provide:

• Prompt intake services
• Multidisciplinary assessments
• Individualized treatment planning
• Specialized individual and group therapy for child survivors, siblings, and non-offending caregivers
• Crisis Intervention
• Personal safety education
• Peer support
• Community resources and referrals when appropriate
• Proven therapeutic strategies that work
• Early Childhood Court partner

Please call or visit website for more information.

This group offers transitional housing for women with young children who are homeless or at risk. You may live there for up to two years. The group also offers many options to help women on their path to independence. Please call or visit the website to learn more.

Program Provides:

• Accountability
• Education
• Housing
• Referrals

This program helps to meet the needs and rights of crime victims. The program helps them recover from emotional, physical, and financial problems caused by crime. Advocates are available 24/7. Please call or visit the website to learn more.

Victim Advocates Provide: