Parenting Skills

Families First offers several courses and sessions that focus on concerns faced by all parents including behavior management and discipline, child development, parent feelings and expectations. We also provide young mothers with information and tools to help them accomplish their goals: pre- and post-natal counseling, childbirth education and medical care.

Parenting Time

Parenting Time helps non-custodial parents improve access and visitation with their children. This program is funded by the Department of Human Resources Office of Child Support Enforcement.

Please call (404) 853-2844 if you have questions or would like to make an appointment.

Ten Tips for Strong Families

1. Make the family your priority -- not your job, money or anything else.
2. Never be too busy.
3. Pay attention to the things that really matter -- support, love, nurturing.
4. Keep a clear perspective remembering that in the big picture, most issues are quite small.
5. Forgive one another.
6. Support each other.
7. Always apply the Golden Rule.
8. Remember who you are in the family picture. You have responsibilities as an individual and as a member of the family.
9. Strive in the face of adverstiy.
10. Be there for each other -- in good times and bad.