PARENTS RESOURCE CENTER

Teen Parents’ Guide to Beating this Winter’s Cabin Fever
With the recent excitement and subsequent stress of the holidays, many parents are physically and emotionally exhausted, searching for ways to make it through the rest of this winter. The season is hard enough with dreary skies, shorter days, and cold weather. Add in tweens and teenagers cooped up at home, unable to go outside, complaining of boredom, and misbehaving and you have parents finding themselves at their wits end, or as my mother used to say, “worn down to a nub”. So, what can you do? How can you keep the peace and your own sanity through the upcoming months?

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Other Resources for Parents

Adoption

Blended Families/Single-Parent Homes

Development:

Domestic Violence:

  • National Domestic Violence Hotline
  • Signs of Abuse and Abusive Relationships
  • Prevail, Inc.
  • Julian Center
  • Prevent Child Abuse

Drugs and Alcohol:

Local Food Pantries:

  • State of Indiana Food Pantry Directory
  • Good Samaritan Food and Baby Pantries
  • Delaware Township Food Pantry
  • Fall Creek Township Trustee Food Pantry
  • Fishers United Methodist Church Food Pantry
  • St. Louis de Montfort Catholic Community Food Pantry
  • Noblesville Township Trustee Office and Community Center
  • Third Phase
  • White River Christian Church Food Pantry

Local Free Clinics:

  • Good Samaritan Free Health Clinic Listings
  • Trinity Free Clinic
  • Hope Family Care Center

 

Local Resources:

  • Behavior Corp/Aspire
  • Fathers and Families Center
  • ASK: About Special Kids
  • Prevent Child Abuse Indiana
  • Healthy Families Hamilton County
  • Good Samaritan

Mental Health:

  • NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness
  • NIMH – National Institutes of Mental Health
  • Eating Disorders

Mentors/Tutors:

  • Big brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana
  • Promising Futures Volunteer Opportunities
    Starfish Initiative
  • Learn More Indiana

General Parenting

  • Tips for Parenting Teens
  • Parenting Teens Online
  • Family Education
  • Circle of Parents
  • Focus Adolescent Services

Supervised Visitation and Exchange:

  • Promising Futures Family Access Center
  • Supervised Visitation Network
  • Office of Guardian Ad Litem/Court Appointed
  • Special Advocate

Teen Relationships:

  • Advocates for Youth
  • Guttmacher Institute: Adolescent Fact Sheets
  • SIECUS
  • Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
  • Teen Dating Violence
  • Family Violence Prevention Fund: Teens

Dropout Prevention:

  • National High School Center
  • 15 Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention
  • National Education Association

Gang Prevention:

  • Parents Guide to Gangs

 

 

 
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