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Idaho's Heart was recently named the state contact for Circle of Parents.  Circle of Parents provides a friendly, supportive environment led by parents and other caregivers. It's a place where anyone in a parenting role can openly discuss the successes and challenges of raising children. Where they can find and share support.  

How? By sitting down and really talking. Circle of Parents groups meet weekly, are free of charge, and foster an open exchange of ideas, support, information and resources. These kinds of groups serve those parenting children of all ages and families of all types. There are groups across the country, and they operate under different names and organizations. But they are all there to help parents find support. Most groups have a free program for children as well.  

The groups utilize the mutual self-help support model.  

A trained group facilitator and parent leader facilitate the support groups.  
Open groups meet weekly and are offered at no cost to any participant.  
Driven by parent need and feasibility, a no-cost children's program is available; if not possible, then quality childcare is provided.
The group facilitator, parent leader and other group members are available to one another between group meetings.  
Groups are ongoing, require no intake, and, with few exceptions, are open to all parents.  
Group members are assured of confidentiality in a non-judgmental environment within the limits of the law.  
Community resource information that supports healthy family development is available to all group members.  

The Circle of Parents® is a national network of mutual support and self-help programs in partnership with communities. Currently the collaboration includes 26 networks in 25 states. The grant supporting this project calls on the collaboration to further expand the national network and to add new groups and strengthen existing programs. Learn more about this national program by visiting their website: www.circleofparents.org.

Idaho's Heart has received a grant from the Idaho Children's Trust Fund for a facilitator training to be held this April.  

The RFP for the Circle of Parents training is in PDF format. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader which is a free program you can download. Click here to download the most recent version:  

 
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Review the RFP by clicking here.  

We are currently seeking funding that will allow us to provide additional facilitator training to agencies and organizations interested in providing this program.  Please contact Sunny Reed at (208) 424-0943 or idahosheart@ideasforyou.com if you would like to be informed of our progress

This page was updated on 05/20/2008.
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