life skills classes

In every program, parents and teens attend life skills classes taught by community experts. Recent class topics have included:

  • Abriendo Puertas: Opening Doors - Becoming Advocates for your Kids at School

  • Appreciating Unique Personalities and Learning Styles

  • Building a Love of Books with your Children

  • Child Development

  • Children's Books and Reading with Your Children

  • Common Core Math for Parents

  • Cool Math Games for Kids and their Parents

  • Developmental Assets

  • Developmental Assets: Building Blocks for your Child's Success

  • Early Childhood Development

  • Effective Solutions for Your Child's Nervous Habits

  • Enjoying Reading and Libraries with your Kids

  • Exploring and Discovering Montessori at Home

  • Fun Ways to Help Your Children Develop Early Literacy

  • Getting Ready for the New School Year

  • Getting the Most Out of Your Parent-Teacher Conference

  • Helping your Children Develop Literacy

  • Helping your Children with their Common Core Education

  • How to Advocate for your Child at School; Navigating the School System

  • How to Cultivate Positive Attitudes about School in Your Children

  • How to Prepare Your Child To Do Well At School

  • How to Talk with your Kids to Build Reading Comprehension

  • Modeling Positive Behavior at Home and Passing on Your Values

  • Opening up Communication with your Child through Play

  • Parenting Teens

  • Red Flags in Early Child Development

  • SEEDS of Early Literacy

  • Setting Limits and Stay listening

  • Supporting the Education of Children with Special Needs

  • Supporting Your Child's Social/Emotional Development

  • Tools for Hand-in-Hand Parenting

  • Triple P: Positive Parenting

parenting effectiveness and skills support

path to college

  • Adult School and College for Parents Moving Forward

  • Charter Schools, Public Schools and Your Child's Education

  • Community College for Everyone

  • How Extracurricular Programs can Enhance Your Child's Path to College

  • Improving Writing for Success in College and Career

  • Path to College

  • Path to Community College

  • School Transitions

  • Start Now: Your Children Can Go to College

  • Basic Psychology for Parents and Families

  • Communicating with your Partner

  • Coping with Grief and Supporting Others

  • Emotional Awareness

  • Ending the Silence: Overview of Mental Illnesses

  • Finding Peace in the Chaos of Life

  • Grief Support: Living with Dying

  • In Our Own Voice: On Dark Days: Recovery and Hope for Living with Mental Illness

  • Managing Difficult Times Together as a Family

  • Managing Stress

  • Overcoming Depression

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

  • Reflections on Death and Dying

  • Self-Care

  • Stress Management, Sleep and Insomnia

  • Supporting a Loved One Who Is Struggling with Suicide

Mental/Emotional Health and Stress Management

  • Understanding Anxiety Disorders

  • Understanding Suicide: Myths, facts, and warning signs

  • What is Mental Health Therapy Like?

A Former Gang Member's Inspirational Journey - and Those Who Helped

  • Anger Management for Parents and Families

  • Bullying and Cyberbullying

  • Bullying: Keep Your Kids Safe in School

  • Child Safety

  • Civic Engagement

  • Crime Prevention

  • Drug Awareness

  • Family Safety

  • Gang Awareness and Prevention

  • Good Alternatives to Shouting and Yelling at Your Kids

  • How to Report a Crime

  • Make it Yours: How to become involved in your community

  • Raising Kids Who Will Avoid Domestic Violence

  • Suicide Prevention

  • Talking with your Kids about Sexual Assault and Dating Violence

  • Understanding Children's Mental Health Issues

  • Vietnamese-American Culture

  • What Parents Should Know about Gangs

Community Involvement and Violence Prevention

  • 10 Steps to a Healthier You

  • 5 Keys to Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater

  • Adding Flavor, Cutting Salt

  • Ask a Nurse

  • Ask a Pediatrician

  • Ask an OB/GYN

  • Become Your Own Health Advocate

  • Breast Cancer Bingo

  • Build a Healthy Plate for your Family

  • Building Healthy Meals using My Plate

  • Choosing Healthy Beverages

  • Dental Health / Overall Health

  • Dental Health for Parents and Kids

  • Eating Healthy and Exercising on a Budget

  • Enjoy Healthy Food that Tastes Great

  • Exercise for Anyone Anywhere

  • First Aid for Families

  • Food Shopping on a Budget

  • Health and Weight Loss

  • Healthy Food Shopping on a Budget

  • Healthy Snacks Your Kids will Really Eat

  • Home Environmental Bingo

  • Making Healthy Eating and Exercising Affordable and Convenient

Health and Nutrition

  • Patient Advocacy during a Hospital Stay

  • Physical Activity is Key to Living Well

  • Preventing Childhood Obesity, Diabetes and Asthma

  • Quick, Healthy Meals and Snacks

  • Rethink Your Drink

  • Sleep and Insomnia

  • Sweet Revenge: The Truth about Sugar

  • Tips for Keeping a Healthy Weight

  • Understanding the Nutrition Facts Label

  • What's on a Food Label?

  • Avoiding Consumer Fraud

  • Building Good Credit and More

  • Don't Lose Access to Your Money

  • Drivers Licenses and Car Insurance

  • Driving and the Law

  • Financial Credit Union Services

  • Housing Rights

  • How to Protect Yourself from Fraud

  • Preparing for DAPA and DACA+ Immigration Executive Actions

  • Immigration Guidance

  • Immigration Law and Services

  • Issues in Car Ownership and Insurance

  • Managing Your Money Well

  • Online Banking

  • Personal Money Management - What do you need to know?

  • Safe Ways to Bank and Build Credit

  • Setting up a Good Financial Future

  • Teaching Financial Responsibility to your Children

  • Tenants' Rights

  • The Dangers of Payday Lending (and Alternatives)

  • Tips and Tricks for Saving Money

  • Understanding the Criminal Justice System

  • What Everyone Should Know about Credit Cards

  • Workers' Rights

Financial Literacy and Legal Rights

Employment Services

  • A Career in the Trades

  • Employment Training

  • How to Interview for a Job

  • How to Write Meaningfully

  • Smart Use of Smart Phones

  • The Path to a Job that is Right for You

  • Worker's Comp and other Worker's Benefits

  • Workers' Rights

Please see the Community Collaborations page for a list of community organizations that provide teachers for these classes.

If you have expertise to share with our families (pro bono) on a topic of parenting effectiveness, education, career planning, financial literacy, health, mental health, nutrition, law, safety or other practical life skills, please contact us. We will provide the English/Spanish interpretation.

Families tell us:
 

ā€œMy family and I have changed a lot through Sunday Friends. It has informed me how to eat healthy, how to save money and be smart with purchasing items. I myself enjoy taking the English classes that will help me learn and improve my English.ā€ 

ā€œThe Sunday Friends classes provide us with positive discipline techniques, nutrition, and many more important topics we should all be informed about. I think my life would be very different had I not found Sunday Friends. I would not have been as involved and informed as I am about my community.ā€

Our Program Evaluation demonstrates how successful Sunday Friends is with teaching Life Skills.

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