Upcoming Classes and Trainings
for Parents and Child Care Providers

CYFS offers a wide range of classes, workshops and trainings for parents and child care providers.

Child Care Quality
The CYFS Child Care Quality Program helps families find quality child care and helps providers to improve the quality of the child care they offer. Child Care Quality offers resource and referral to families, voluntary registration for small home-based child care providers, the Seal of Quality Child Care for providers, Virginia Star Quality Initiative for Center-Based Providers, and trainings for home-based and established child care providers. MORE

TransParenting
A one-time, four-hour class that provides information about helping children adjust to the changes associated with family transitions and provide tools to parents to work together for the child’s well-being when separation and/or divorce are chosen. This class meets the Court requirements for a parenting class. MORE

Six Easy Steps
Six Easy Steps (SES) is a six-week parenting class for parents of children 2-12 years old. SES uses the national curriculum Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) to teach effective parenting skills in an interactive approach to parent education. Limited free child care is provided. MORE

Surviving the Teen Years
Surviving the Teen Years is a fun and interactive six-week class for parents and their kids (9-18 years old). STY is for families who are struggling with communication, roles and responsibilities and other family and parenting challenges. Past participants, both parents and teens, indicate that they found these classes very helpful. MORE

Saturday Workshops
Free workshops are offered for parents of children 0-6 years of age held at CYFS at 1000 East High St, Charlottesville with free limited child care provided. Pre-registration required. Topics include: potty training, sleep issues, kindergarten readiness, nutrition and discipline. MORE