It's hard to be a parent.
Especially if you never had proper training.
People who are considered "bad parents" may not be "bad"... just unskilled.. Organizers of infant and toddler parenting classes in Sacramento County hope to teach the parents of school-age children how to be "good" parents.
For fifteen years, non-profit organizations in the Birth and Beyond Program have worked with Sacramento County to provide parenting classes for people with infants and toddlers.
The parenting classes are offered in the county's poorest neighborhoods.
Danielle Lawrence is the Program Director at the Arcade Community Center.
"This particular part of this neighborhood has lots of violence, lots of killings, poverty, domestic violence, those types of things that bring a neighborhood down."
About two thirds of the parents have cases under the jurisdiction of Sacramento County Child Protective Services. CPS says one of every four parents or guardians identified as neglectful or abusive were themselves CPS cases as children.
Each week, six providers offer classes at nine locations. The providers are trained by the county's Child Abuse Prevention Council (CAPC). All of the classes involve in-home visitation.
[For more of this story, written by Bob Moffitt, go to http://www.capradio.org/articl...urs-werent-so-great/]
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