The New Parent Support Program (NPSP) comprises a professional team of nurses and social workers who provide supportive and caring services to military families. Through a variety of programs such as home visits, support groups, and parenting classes—including Baby Boot Camp, NPSP can help families cope with stress, isolation, deployment/post-deployment issues, and improve parenting skills. Even if you have been raising your family for a few years, challenges always arise, and NPSP offers you the opportunity to express your concerns and ask questions about babies, young children, family relationships, and parenting skills.

Cooperative Parenting and Divorce Class

New Parent Support Program offers a four-hour workshop for separating or divorcing couples with children. Cooperative Parenting and Divorce explores ways to reduce conflict between parents as their roles shift from married couple to co-parents. Participants will learn the impact of parental conflict on their child’s development and to identify their contributions to conflict and how to control impulses. Anger management, communication and conflict resolution skills and children’s issues will be addressed. This class fulfills the Virginia state requirement for parents where custody is at issue to attend an educational seminar. Workshops are offered quarterly at Quantico and Henderson Hall. Please call 703-784-4248 to register.

Dates:
  Wednesday, November 19, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Henderson Hall.

The New Parent Support Program (NPSP) provides supportive and caring services to military families. Baby Boot Camp, a hands-on introduction to taking care of a new baby, meets the Commanding Officer’s requirements for Marines who are first time parents.

2008 Dates:
  Quantico: November 21, December 12 (8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m., NPSP Activity Room)