Parenting & Co-Parenting Classes
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For more information or to register for our parenting classes, call (937) 299-LINK.
We offer an ongoing series of free classes in Dayton that can help you gain the knowledge and tools to become a more confident and nurturing parent.
Current Offerings:
- Nurturing Co-Parenting 101 is offered monthly, as a one-session class that can help you learn skills and techniques for better co-parenting with your child’s other parent. For more information, click on the class flyer you’ll find on this page.
Teen Parents Learn
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Teen Parents Learn can help you stay in school while you’re pregnant. find services & resources for a healthy pregnancy. return to school after your baby is born. balance the demands of going to school and being a parent. graduate from high school and get your diploma. learn to take care of your child...and yourself. become a terrific parent.
Teen Parents Learn is designed to help young parents complete high school and graduate with their diplomas. We work with pregnant and parenting teens who are still in school, as well as with those who left school as teen parents and are now ready to work toward high school graduation.
Our Family Life Coaches provide these young moms and dads with parenting education as well as the skills and support they need to stay in school and/or complete their high school education. We provide support as they overcome obstacles and become successful parents, while encouraging them to graduate.

This program is funded in part by United Way of the Greater Dayton Area
The Teen Parents Learn program launched in the summer of 2017 through a collaboration among Catholic Social Services, Lifestages Centers for Women, the Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation, LifeSkills High School, and the Montgomery County Educational Service Center. As part of Montgomery County’s priority for improving graduation rates for teen parents, our program goals include increasing student attendance rates in school, decreasing school dropout rates, and reclaiming youth who drop out of school because of challenges related to pregnancy or parenting.
Eligibility
Teen Parents Learn can work with you if you’re a teenager in Montgomery County who is pregnant or has a child up to age 5, or if you were a teen parent. If you had to leave school because you had a baby as a teenager and now want to graduate from high school, we can help you get your diploma.
Contact
For more information, please call our parenting services department at (937) 299-LINK / 299-5465.
Location
Services are provided at schools and community locations, and through home-based services.
Mothers Empowered Prenatal Groups
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Group Prenatal Care Program

As a first-time mother, I didn’t know anything. I have learned so much here.
We didn’t know any other people with babies, so the support group is our way of being with other parents and letting our daughter play with other babies. I really like that!
I like hearing about the baby and other women’s experience of their pregnancy and relating it to mine.
One of the more significant outcomes of the program has been the natural bond and subsequent support networks which emerge among the women. Their friendship, created through this shared experience, has made them stronger and more confident in their role as mothers.
In this unique program, CSSMV teams up with Lifestages Centers for Women. While Lifestages offers CenteringPregnancy® group prenatal care, CSSMV’s Family Life Coaches provide parenting preparation, nurturing parenting education, home visiting, and community resource case management to help build strong life skills for baby, mom, dad and family. Mothers Empowered is a wraparound support program, with expectant mothers receiving prenatal care in small groups with others whose due dates are in the same month. The groups meet regularly and include quality prenatal care by medical providers, plus educational and emotional supports. A Family Life Coach from Catholic Social Services is at every meeting, and also encourages parents to participate in one-on-one parenting sessions at their homes. Prenatal Centering® groups meet monthly at first, and as due dates approach they meet every two weeks. Once the babies are born, CSSMV’s Family Life Coaches facilitate ongoing group meetings focusing on peer support and parenting education, as well as ongoing one-on-one home visits.
Mothers Empowered is a partnership among Catholic Social Services, Lifestages Centers for Women, and the Good Samaritan Foundation.
Eligibility
The Mothers Empowered program is open to any pregnant woman who is willing to make Lifestages Centers for Women her primary provider for prenatal care.
Delivery hospitals include Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton and Miami Valley Hospital South in Centerville.
Contact
For more information, call our parenting services team at (937) 299-LINK / 299-5465.
To schedule a prenatal visit with Mothers Empowered, call (937) 277-8988 and select extension 4114.
Location
Mothers Empowered groups meet at:
- Miami Valley Hospital North
9000 North Main Street
Dayton, Ohio 45415
- Charles R. Drew Health Center
1323 West Third Street
Dayton, Ohio 45402
The program also includes home visits.

Eckerle Administration Center
922 West Riverview Avenue
Dayton, OH 45402
(937) 223-7217 or (800) 300-2937
General email: cssmv@cssmv.org