Strengthening Families
We’re helping Springfield families learn and grow.
Online Classes
Pregnancy and Birth
Online • No Cost
20 Classes Offered • Watch Anytime
Class List
- Your First Trimester: 30 min
- Prenatal Care: 18 min
- Eating for Two: 23 min
- Emotions During Pregnancy: 25 min
- Your Second Trimester: 25 min
- Bonding With Your Unborn Baby: 19 min
- Your Third Trimester: 26 min
- The Final Stretch: 21 min
- Postpartum Depression: 28 min
- Eye Contact Means Love: 11 min
- Infant Temperament: 11 min
- The Importance of Bonding: 12 min
- Infant Expectations: 20 min
- Infant Hygiene: 22 min
- Simple Infant Care: 19 min
- Going it Alone: 25 min
- Smoking / Drinking / Drugs: 38 min
- Shaken Baby Syndrome: 17 min
- Breastfeeding – Getting Started: 20 min
- Successful Breastfeeding: 22 min
If you are expecting, these videos will guide you through your pregnancy, birth, and the first few weeks back home.
The First Year
Online • No Cost
19 Classes Offered • Watch Anytime
Class List
- Infant Expectations: 9-12 Months: 19 min
- Infant Expectations: 6-9 Months: 20 min
- Mommy Work: 16 min
- Being A Super Mom: 19 min
- Mommy Nutrition: 22 min
- Understanding Your Infant: 21 min
- Infant Nutrition: 22 min
- Newborn Sickness: 25 min
- Getting Your Baby to Sleep: 18 min
- Crying: 24 min
- Car Seat Safety: 39 min
- Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: 29 min
- Immunizations: 29 min
- SIDS: 22 min
- Infant CPR: 20 min
- Quality Childcare: 21 min
- Baby on the Move: 26 min
- Infant Expectations: 0-3 Months: 24 min
- Infant Expectations: 3-6 Months: 20 min
The first year of a baby’s life is so important! Each of these lessons will creatively teach you medically recommended practices while relating to your shared experiences.
Life Skills
Online • No Cost
19 Classes Offered • Watch Anytime
Class List
- Success at Work: 16 min
- At the Interview: 17 min
- Preparing for an Interview: 16 min
- Finding a Job: 18 min
- Preparing for a Job – The Hard Truth: 19 min
- Anger Management: 24 min
- Screen Time and You: 21 min
- Depression and Suicide: 25 min
- Home Health: 18 min
- The Monster of Debt: 18 min
- Budgeting 101: 14 min
- Fighting the Impulse to Spend: 18 min
- Staying Out of Debt: 15 min
- Financial Emergencies: 16 min
- Buying a Car: 19 min
- Career or Job? Planning for More: 16 min
- Family Stability Inside Change: 21 min
- Helping Children Process Change: 18 min
- What is a Family: 18 min
Life can be hard – and we make choices that can make it harder (or easier!). The life skills videos cover financial challenges, anger management, career choices, and much more.
Healthy Relationships
Online • No Cost
3 Classes Offered • Watch Anytime
Class List
- Healthy Boundaries (For Him): 19 min
- Healthy Boundaries (For Her): 21 min
- Boundaries: 28 min
A healthy relationship requires both people to form a healthy, strong and long-lasting bond.
Practical Fatherhood
Online • No Cost
7 Classes Offered • Watch Anytime
Class List
- REAL Time: 25 min
- Role Models: 22 min
- Discipline Guidelines: 23 min
- Being Consistent: 18 min
- Taking Care of Her During Pregnancy: 27 min
- Taking Care of Her During Birth: 26 min
- Baby Care Basics for Dads: 19 min
What are the tasks that will help make you a great father? These are simple, easy to follow, yet very important lessons for every father to follow.
Toddler
Online • No Cost
20 Classes Offered • Watch Anytime
Class List
- Toddler Oral Health: 22 min
- Toilet Training: 25 min
- 24-36 Month Milestones: 21 min
- 18-24 Month Milestones: 22 min
- 15-18 Month Milestones: 19 min
- 12-15 Month Milestones: 24 min
- Mommy Milestones: 22 min
- Tantrums: 19 min
- Sleeping, Bedtimes, Mornings: 18 min
- Toddler Safety: 22 min
- Toddler Play: 22 min
- I Can Do It Myself: 20 min
- Siblings: 25 min
- Whining: 18 min
- Toddler Illness: 24 min
- Toddler Nutrition: 20 min
- Toddler Accidents: 24 min
- Bonding with Your Toddler: 19 min
- Time with Toddler: 19 min
- The Importance of Words: 19 min
Toddlers can be fun – and tough! The new mobility bring new challenges, and these courses will help you come up with positive strategies to parent your energetic tot.
Single Parenting
Online • No Cost
16 Classes Offered • Watch Anytime
Class List
- Critical Issues (for Stepdads): 36 min
- Critical Issues (for Stepmoms): 36 min
- Critical Issues (for Single Dads): 36 min
- Critical Issues (for Single Moms): 36 min
- Co-parent Communication (for Stepmoms): 28 min
- Co-parent Communication (for Stepdads): 28
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- Co-parent Communication (for Single Dads): 28 min
- Co-parent Communication (for Single Moms): 28 min
- Stable Parent, Stable Home (for Stepmoms): 24 min
- Stable Parent, Stable Home (for Stepdads): 24 min
- Stable Parent, Stable Home (for Single Moms): 30 min
- Stable Parent, Stable Home (for Single Dads): 35 min
- There is Hope! (for Stepdads): 33 min
- There is Hope! (for Stepmoms): 33 min
- There is Hope! (for Single Dads): 29 min
- There is Hope! (for Single Moms): 21 min
You’re not alone. We know how difficult raising a child alone can be, and we’ve got the classes and community to help along the way.
On-site Classes
Baby Care
Safe Baby-zzz
Onsite • No Cost
Eligibility: 27 weeks into pregnancy through six months after birth.
Bimonthly, 4th Thursday
Time: 5:30 pm and 7:30 pm
A safe sleep environment helps reduce a leading cause of infant mortality, and it’s as easy as ABC—always Alone, on their Back, in a Crib. Everyone who attends this class will receive a free pack ‘n play, sleep sack, and fitted crib sheet.
Parenting 101
Onsite • No Cost
Monthly, 1st Tuesday
Time: 6 pm to 8 pm
Understanding and parenting your baby takes time and knowledge. This class will cover important topics such as infant choking, CPR, car seat and sleep safety and shaken baby syndrome.
Parenting 102
Onsite • No Cost
Bimonthly, 2nd Tuesday
Time: 6 pm to 8 pm
Your baby will change so much in the first year and through these changes, the learning process continues. This class covers topics such as developmental milestones from birth through age one, bonding with your baby, responding to their emotional needs and brain development.
Prenatal
Labor and Birth I, II, III
Onsite • No Cost
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Wednesdays at 3pm
OR
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Thursdays at 6pm
Planning for the birth of your baby is an important step in preparing for your new addition. These classes, taught by registered nurses, are designed to help you learn about what to expect during labor and birth.
Healthy Pregnancy
Onsite • No Cost
Monthly, 2-hour class on the 4th Tuesday
Commitment to healthy choices during pregnancy is important. This class provides important pregnancy information, including a checklist for each trimester.
Life Skills
Life on Point
Onsite • No Cost
Monthly, 2nd Monday
Time: 6pm-8pm
It’s up to you. How you handle stress, the boundaries you set, and what you say all impact your everyday life. In this class, you will learn key tips and techniques to strengthen your relationships and keep life on point.
Money Management
Onsite • No Cost
Quarterly, 3rd Monday
Time: 6 pm to 8 pm
Commitment to healthy choices during pregnancy is important. This class provides important pregnancy information, including a checklist for each trimester.
Parents and the Law
Onsite • No Cost
Quarterly, 1st Monday
Time: 6 pm to 8 pm
Commitment to healthy choices during pregnancy is important. This class provides important pregnancy information, including a checklist for each trimester.
