Educational Resources in The Heights

Do you think that you may have some lessons to learn or skills to develop when it comes to your parenting? It can be hard to come to terms with our shortcomings as parents. It is also easy to get defensive about those shortcomings. However, if now is a time where you have learned about an issue in your parenting life you can take the first steps towards bettering yourself- both for you and for your children.

TRIAD Prevention Program- Parenting with Love and Limits distributes parenting survival kits and offers a six-week course about parenting and how to take care of children-especially teenagers. When it comes to learning about how to parent teenagers, we all could use some help from time to time. This program will help you to focus on the major areas of developmental and behavioral problems that teens experience and can help you to develop skills to reduce the risk of those problems becoming chronic for your child.

The Mental Health America Greater Houston Information and Referral Line provides callers with information and educational material regarding local providers of mental healthcare and counseling. Social Services information is also provided to this group of volunteers and counselors, alike. Resources that you can take advantage of in person and online are available through phone calls and referrals.

West Houston Assistance Ministries is a resource for you to be able to earn your GED or improve yourself from an academic perspective. Back to school supplies can be difficult to afford if you have spent a great deal of money on a divorce. West Houston Assistance Ministries can help in this regard. Simply learning how to read better or developing better literacy skills can help in your daily life as well as professionally. The ministry can help you to do both.