The Parent Education Program (P.E.P.) is designed to support and educate parents of at-risk children and families in crisis. The goal of this program is to provide parents with new skills and tools so they can parent their children with love, commitment and safety.

P.E.P uses an evidence-based "best practice" called Triple P (for Positive Parenting Program). Triple P is an internationally recognized, bi-lingual, culturally adaptable curriculum.

This curriculum includes:

• Understanding the responsibility of parenting
• Learning communication and listening skills
• Learning safe and effective discipline methods
• Finding ways to encourage and build self-esteem
• Understanding the stages of child development
• Learning how to resolve problems with respect
  and care
• Stress management
• Understanding child abuse and how it affects children

Classes are free, thanks to grant funding from the Mental Health Services Act.

P.E.P. is a collaboration between Community Human Services, Salinas Adult School, Alisal Community Healthy Start, Soledad Unified School District and North Monterey County Unified School District. Classes are offered throughout the year in Salinas, Seaside, Soledad and Castroville.

Classes typically take place over 10 weeks, meeting once per week for 2 hours per session, or 20 hours total to complete the program.

Class times vary. See the current schedule below, or download here.

Program Flyer PDF

John Adams, MFT Director of Mental Health Services (831) 658-3811 x206 John Adams has been CHS’s Director of Mental Health Services since 2002, has been active in providing mental health care in Monterey County since 1992.  He did his undergraduate work at the University of Virginia and received is M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University L.A.  Licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist, his professional history includes working in crisis and forensic mental services in Southern California before coming to the Monterey Peninsula.  Under his leadership, CHS’s role has grown to include being the primary provider of outpatient mental health services for our county’s Medi-Cal recipients and being the flagship agency for Family to Family.

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