Parent Café
Coordinator Training
A resilient family provides a foundation that fosters confidence, emotional intelligence, and the ability to bounce forward from difficulties.
Learn how to facilitate Parent Cafés in your community or organization with this training! You’ll receive the tools and resources you need to engage and support the families in your community.
“I really enjoy being able to chat and get tips that I can use from other moms.”
Frequently Asked Questions
A parent cafe is a place where parents of all types can gather and share their stories, their experiences, their worries, their fears, their wisdom, and find community and strength together. As a family-serving professional, you can be there to help introduce parents and start the conversations.
Anyone interested in offering parent cafes to their organization or region can be trained as a coordinator. Parent Cafés are often offered through schools, libraries, childcare/community centers, or to specific parent groups such as foster parents, kinship providers etc. This training is required for anyone interested in being certified by the Ohio Children’s Trust Fund.
The training covers the essentials you’ll need to know to successfully offer a parent cafe program. Those include:
- Understanding the goals of the parent cafe model.
- How a parent cafe is structured, including the agenda, set-up, session plans, and supplies you’ll need.
- Topics for parent cafes.
- Roles you’ll need for a parent café.
- Location considerations.
- What to think about when scheduling a parent cafe.
The training will take place over two days from 9 am until 4 pm. This training is approved for 10 hours of Ohio-approved credit.
The training is offered in two ways:
- In-Person Sessions
These sessions will take place on a specified day and time at a predetermined location, where all participants will be present. - Virtual Instructor Led Sessions
These sessions will be held virtually via Teams. There will be a designated day and time when participants must be online, and a live instructor will lead them through the training.
The cost for the training is $125 per participant. In addition, there is a $25 fee for each Parent Cafe Coordinator Resource Binder, which will be sent after the class.
Click the registration link for the session you would like to attend. You will register and pay for the class online. For virtual instructor-led sessions, you will receive the link and materials after you have registered.
For more information, email Trish Glass at tglass@costars.org