Parent Advocates

The Parent Advocate in-home program is a free, personalized, confidential service in the comfort of your hown home to help you define solutions to your specific family challenges.

During home visits, parents are given the tools to take on such challenges as:

~ Developing healthy routines

~ Handling stress

~ Toilet training

~ Keeping children safe

~ Problem solving, decision making, negotiation and compromise

~ Stages of development and having age-appropriate expectations

~ Helping families express negative emotions healthily

~ Budgeting

~ Helping parents recognize what their needs are, as well as their children's, and how to meet them both

~ Home management - getting children to participate in household chores

~ Parenting through a crisis

~ Co-parenting

~ Parenting special-needs children

~ Using rewards and consequences to guide and teach children positively

~ Parenting teens

~ Sharing more than the weather (communication)

Services are available in both English and Spanish to families in Salt Lake County. Please call Teresa Jacobs at 801-955-9110 ext 102 for more information

Links to Other Parenting Resources

Referral Form