Parenting Classes - Pathways to Parenting

Crossroads Outreach Program ‘Pathways to Parenting' will begin with the Nurturing Parenting Program® a ten week workbook and hands-on program that will be led by certified instructors. This program was founded on the belief that children who are cared for develop the capacity to trust, care and respect themselves, other people and living creatures and the environment. The classes review how to cope with all the newness of having your first child plus the moms will have the support of other moms in the same situation.
10 Weeks

The Nurturing Parenting Program® will be given on a rotating basis with these two classes so the moms will learn parenting skills as well as life and job skills. After ten moms finish these classes they will transition into the Soul Food and Show Me The Money Classes and ten new moms will begin the parenting program.

Soul Food

These classes will deal with food for the body as well as the soul. Feeding ones spirit to provide a happy home for themselves and their child and feeding ones body for the healthfulness that will keep their spirits up. Fun holiday keepsakes that will ground their little family in tradition and basic baby care that will encourage them in the next phases of motherhood.

5 Weeks

Show Me The Money

Where does all the money go? Moms will look at how it disappears and where it disappears to, and learn how to manage it when they find it, by planning for the future. This class will also help them find the right childcare for their baby, help prepare them for their job quest and/or college opportunities, and much more. 5 weeks When we open the Crossroads facility our residents will transition into a program that has already been working for other single moms and they will see that, they too, can overcome the many trials that come from raising a child as a single parent and that they will always have our support and a place to come back to for encouragement and unconditional love. There is also a strong need for emotional and peer support to know they are not alone.

5 Weeks

The purpose of our parenting program is to fill that void. We want our moms to know they are worthy and we are here to help. As we all know parenting is not easy and being a single parent is especially difficult given the circumstances in today's economy and being single with a child in general. Our goal is to provide the needed support and parenting classes every mom and dad needs to build a strong, healthy family unit.

As far as we are concerned the young moms and babies that live with us will leave only bodily the Crossroads facility. These young moms will be encouraged to continue attending the classes and to participate in the on-going activities that they enjoyed while living with us. Moms not living with us will be able to choose which classes they would like to attend. As the children grow our programs will address those concerns also. Our goal is to teach these young women that they are worthy of God's love and our love and that through support and motivation they can become strong spiritually, physically, and emotionally. They will find the confidence and inner strength necessary to become independent loving mothers. Many have never been parented so have no idea on how to be a mother to the new baby nor have they learned the basics of making a home because they never really had one. Our vision is to teach and encourage all this and more.

Any young woman who passes through our doors will be strengthened in mind, body, and spirit - ready to face the challenges ahead with confidence and knowing they will always have a family at Crossroads Ministry.

This message will be on a plaque over the entrance to our Community Room Door

We serve all of the young women and their
Children who pass through these doors
for the Glorification of God.

"For I know the plans that I have for you," declares
the Lord, "plans for welfare and not for calamity
to give you a future and a hope."

Jeremiah 29:11