Indiana Parenting Institute

This program provides parenting education classes, case management, and family support services to parents/caregivers with children birth to eighteen years. In 2016, 894 families were served through our agency. This comprehensive evidence based training provides intervention and prevention services specifically to parents in the areas of truancy and school dropout, substance abuse recovery, military families re-entering family life, and single women transition from homelessness, family separation, domestic violence, financial management, nutrition, home safety, education, health and nutrition, and workplace skills.

This community wide program calls attention to the need for effective and responsible parenting education to prevent child abuse and neglect. Annually, this initiative celebrates parents raising children and engages other family service organizations in hosting family awareness celebrations in their agencies at their own expense. In 2016, two-hundred and twelve (212) families participated through 11 community agencies. This celebration is called April is Parenting Awareness Month Indiana (PAMI).

This professional development program for human and social services professionals, parents and caregivers is bi-monthly throughout the year. It is funded through a grant of Geminus Community Partners since it began in 2013. The focus of this program is to share the knowledge gleaned from IPI in best practice ways to work with urban families to achieve healthier long-term family outcomes.