This educational group is for rising first-graders through rising fifth-graders whose parents are divorced or separated.

The group addresses common struggles children face when their parents live in separate homes. Topics covered include identifying feelings, coping skills and problem-solving.

This class is offered by Prevention Services, Chesterfield Mental Health Support Services

Ginger Dotter
768-7747

Whitney Kern at
717-6547

This class is for parents who want to learn more about the basic needs of young children (newborns to preschoolers). Topics will include learning through play, handling challenging behaviors, child development, and how to parent secure and confident children.

This class is offered by Prevention Services, Chesterfield Mental Health Support Services

Wednesdays 

6:30-8 p.m.

Sept. 29 -
Nov. 7

This behaviorally focused class for parents combines short lectures, group discussions and demonstrations to teach the most effective strategies for handling typical preschool/early elementary behavior. The emphasis is on practical approaches

This class is offered by Prevention Services, Chesterfield Mental Health Support Services

This is a course for parents of early adolescents, 10-15 years old. Development, effective communication, relationship enhancement, conflict reduction and behavior management are emphasized.

This class is offered by Prevention Services, Chesterfield Mental Health Support Services

Mondays, Oct. 4 -
Nov. 8

6:30-8:30 p.m.

Community Police Training Room, Chesterfield Towne Center

Karl Kalber

717-6635

For parents of high-school students to learn teenage development, improving parent-teen relationships, reducing and solving conflicts and setting limits. Also includes information on preventing risky teen behavior and how to teach responsible intimate behavior

This class is offered by Prevention Services, Chesterfield Mental Health Support Services

Thursdays

6:30-8 p.m.

Cosby High School

14300 Fox Club Parkway, Midlothian

Karl Kalber 717-6635

This course for parents or caregivers of elementary-school-aged children with ADHD offers participants tools to help in raising their children. Topics include talking to children about ADHD, helping children develop positive behaviors and decrease negative behaviors, teaching children to manage their feelings, and supporting children in being successful at school. Participants will have the opportunity to talk with other parents about common concerns in an informal atmosphere.

This class is offered by Prevention Services, Chesterfield Mental Health Support Services

Tuesdays,  Oct. 19 -
Dec. 7 (no class Nov. 23)

6:30-8 p.m.

Southside Church of the Nazarene

Whitney Kern

717-6547

This group will help children better understand ADHD/ADD and develop skills for success. Topics include organization staying focused, thinking before acting and managing feelings. The children must have a diagnosis of ADHD/ADD to attend the class.

This class is offered by Prevention Services, Chesterfield Mental Health Support Services

Evening class:                          
Thursdays, July 8, 15, 22 and 29
Bon Air United Methodist Church.
Rising second- and third-graders – 6–6:50 p.m.
Rising fourth- and fifth-graders – 7–7:50 p.m.

Daytime class: 
Fridays, July 16, 23, 30 and August 6,
Chester Library
Rising second- and third-graders – 10-10:50 a.m.
Rising fourth- and fifth-graders – 11-11:50 a.m.
Rising middle schoolers – 1:15 p.m.

Sherry Callear

717-6739

Focus is on how parents of children 0-18 can assist their children when parents no longer live together.

This class is offered by Prevention Services, Chesterfield Mental Health Support Services

This class teaches couples how to communicate what they want to get out of relationships, how to resolve conflict effectively and reduce arguments, how to solve problems as a team, and how to keep fun, friendship and intimacy a part of their relationships.

This class is offered by Prevention Services, Chesterfield Mental Health Support Services