About Us

Breaking Cycles – Building Futures

Educating Communities for Parenting offers a variety of programs and services to nearly 500 clients annually at over 25 sites including traditional, alternative, charter, and disciplinary schools; foster care residences, homeless shelters, recovery facilities, and childcare centers. 

ECP works with a diverse range of populations including teen and adult parents; adjudicated delinquent youth; young adults aging out of the foster care system; preschoolers, and children at grave risk of becoming victims or perpetrators of violence.   Workshops and programs are customized to meet the specific needs of the populations we serve.
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All programs are designed  to help participants:

  • Increase personal responsibility and healthy behaviors
  • Understand the need for self-care and self-sufficiency
  • Understand the impact of negative behaviors
  • Recognize and communicate that violence is a public health issue
  • Increase use of creative intelligence in problem-solving, decision making and goal setting
  • Increase a sense of empowerment and well-being