Mental Health Professionals

Mental health professionals know the crucial role parents play in addressing behaviorally disordered adolescents. The Parent Project® is a psycho-educational parenting skills program designed specifically for parents of adolescents described as oppositional defiant or conduct disordered. Because of its success in preventing, identifying and intervening in the most destructive of adolescent behaviors, the Parent Project® has won three state awards in its home State of California and has been successfully adopted for use by hundreds of communities throughout the nation.

Parent Project® classes may be offered as a community service by mental health departments, private practitioners, school districts, law enforcement agencies, churches, or other concerned community organizations.

Specifically designed to meet changing needs in clinical practice today, the Parent Project® is a short-term psycho educational program that significantly improves treatment outcomes, increases your visibility in the community, generates more referrals and receivables, makes your practice less dependent on managed care and exposes you to an ever-increasing client base.

!	Do parents of high risk youth see your practice as an effective resource in helping them cope with their out-of-control children?
!	Are you interested in ways to diversify your practice?
!	Are you searching for new methods to link with the referral sources in your community (schools, probation, courts, law enforcement, etc.)?

Clinicians completing the week long Parent Project® Facilitator Training, lead up to 30 parents through six core curriculum sessions and four to ten highly structured topic-focused support groups to further improve treatment outcomes.

Parent Project's® Facilitator Training is MCEP approved for licensed  Psychologists for 37 hours (the entire two year re-licensing requirement) and provides 40 hours for Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Clinical Social Workers. This translates into the individual cost per CEU (continuing education unit) of less than $20.00.

While other methods of practice diversification can take years to develop and cost thousands of dollars. The cost of the forty-hour Parent Project® Facilitator Training can be recouped in the very first Parent Project® program offered through your practice.

Managed care companies are increasingly enamored with the Parent Project® (and those who present it) as an affordable, effective, intervention model.