Professional Development
Congratulations!
You are taking an important step to reducing the stress in your family! Below are some professional development opportunities available in Dunn County. To register for these opportunities, you will be navigated to the dcpfy.org site (Dunn County Partnership for Youth). Look back often as new offerings are updated frequently and online opportunities will be available soon!
If you would like to register for any of these programs on-line visit dcpfy.org
Becoming a Love and Logic Parent
Put the fun back in parenting!
This six-week course helps parents and children establish a rewarding relationship built upon love and trust. Topics include:
- Responsibility
- Control
- Ownership
- Setting limits
- Empathy
- Consequences
The material covered is appropriate for parents, grandparents and care providers of children age birth to 18 years. Visit dcpfy.org to register for next series.
Love and Logic Early Childhood Parenting Made Fun!
This five-week course helps parents and children establish a rewarding relationship built upon love and trust. Topics include
- Create happy, fun families
- Toddlers go to bed the first time
- Create meals without the battles
- Youngsters grow to safe, smart, confident teens
- Much, much more!
The material covered is appropriate for parents, grandparents and care providers of children age birth to 6 years. Visit dcpfy.org to register for next series.
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Parenting the First Year Newsletter
Becoming a parent is an exciting change in your life. But it can be a stressful and trying time too! Subscribe to a free month by month update on your child’s development – delivered right to your in-box!!
Parenting the First Year Newsletters will be delivered to your in-box each month for you to hear from child development experts how your baby changes during each month of the first year. You will receive the latest information on child development, nutrition, health, safety, child care, changes in family life, and much more.
Click HERE to sign up!
Parenting the Second Year Newsletter
Being a parent gets more exciting as your toddler learns to talk, play with you and others, and make decisions. Your toddler’s curiosity will delight you, as well as frustrate and tire you out! Continue receiving updates on your child’s development with a free bi-monthly update on your child’s development – delivered right to your in-box!!
Parenting the Second and Third Year Newsletters will be delivered every other month to your in-box for you to hear from child development experts how your toddler changes during each two months of the second and third years. Guiding and caring for your child these next two years will take a lot of your attention, encouragement, patience, humor – and a sense of wonder.
Click HERE to sign up!
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The Financial Coach Program
Having difficulty reaching your financial goals?
Create an on-going relationship with a budget coach to:
- work through household finance issues
- identify financial hardships
- set realistic goals that you can follow and achieve!
For your own personal, confidential coach call the UW-Extension Office at 232-1636 or e-mail kristen.bruder@ces.uwex.edu.
Click here to visit the Dunn County Partnership for Youth’s website and more financial information.
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The College Transition
A curriculum that focuses on specific solutions and best practices in preventing problems for students during the transition to college.
Today’s high school senior is at risk of a number of mental and physical health risks when he/she enters college. According to Dr. Richard Kadison, Chief of Mental Health Services at Harvard University Health Services, a student in college today has the chance of almost one in two of becoming depressed to the point of being unable to function; one in two that binge drinking will become a regular habit and one in ten students will seriously consider suicide. College counseling centers across the country report increased frequency and severity of students’ mental health concerns.
The transition poses challenges for parents, too, as they watch their child take another big step toward independence and wonder how to stay connected while letting go, especially when the child may be hundreds of miles away.
A new program created by UW-Extension in cooperation with college campuses in northwestern Wisconsin aims to help students and their parents to plan ahead for a smooth transition.
UW-Extension county faculty from Washburn, Pierce, Dunn and St. Croix counties conducted local research at UW-Barron County and UW-River Falls, and combined it with additional research from statewide and national sources to prepare a curriculum that focuses on real solutions for preventing problems during post-high school education.
