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new skills & choices
parenting programs
The New Skills and Choices Parenting Program focuses on keeping children out of the middle of high conflict disputes by offering alternative skill building for parents who wish to co-parent. Alternatively, we offer a 12-week Parallel Parenting course for parents who are not able to
communicate with the other parent and are seeking tools and skills to parallel parent.
This program is available for families who are in the process of separation and divorce, which are:
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Co-Parenting (8-week program with a certification of completion given at the end of the program).
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Parallel-Parenting (12-week program with a certification of completion given at the end of the program).
All services and classes of the New Skills and Choices Programs are treatment focused, confidential and not subject to assessments, reports or testifying.
The following are descriptions of each of the programs provided by PIT:
Co-Parenting
8 week course Intended for families referred by Family Court to the New Skills and Choices Intervention Program
May be available virtually- we highly recommend in person for this program.
Days: Days & Times by appointment only please contact (408)744-1009 or sign up below
Fee: (Fees are based on a sliding scale)
Fee for each class is $40.00. Classes are taught only in English.
Workbook: $25.00
Intake: $55.00
Location: Peace-It-Together 2021 The Alameda, ste. 295, San Jose, 95126.
Co-Parenting Program
Is intended for families referred by Family Court to the New Skills and Choices Intervention Program. The program addreses:
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Parents in conflict over their children;
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Children in family who are in stress due to parental conflict and separation;
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Parents who are entrenched in litigation;
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Both parents participate in the separate classes or 1:1 sessions.
Classes are not appropriate for families with active substance abuse or serious mental health disorders.
Class structure:Group
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Classes are two-hour sessions held once a week over an eight-week period;
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Both parents are encouraged to attend and are separated into two different classes on different days.
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The two groups are a mix of fathers/mothers and custodial/non-custodial parents.
Class structure: Individual Sessions: (in person is recommended vs. virtual)
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Classes are 1.5-hour sessions held once a week over an eight-week period;
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Both parents are encouraged to attend and seen by different therapists.
Parallell Parenting
12 week course intended for parents who cannot communicate and may have a restraining order in their case
May be available virtually- we highly recommend in person for this program.
Days: Days & Times by appointment only please contact 408)744-1009 or sign up below
Fee: (Fees are based on a sliding scale)
Fee for each class is $40.00. Classes are taught only in English.
Workbook: $25.00
Intake: $55.00
Location: Peace-It-Together 2021 The Alameda, ste. 295, San Jose, 95126.
Parallell Parenting Program
May be group or individual sessions (in person is recommended vs. virtual)
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12-weeks intended for parents who cannot communicate and may have a restraining order in their case.
Program objectives: To help parents build new skills in communication and parenting and to make constructive choices for their family. Group interventions include role plays, videos, peer learning and didactic information to assist them in learning the ability to:
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Develop empathy for children and the other parent;
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Learn constructive ways to solve problems;
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Learn new communication techniques, especially clarifying and listening;
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Learn value of parallel parenting when appropriate;
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Understand effects of conflict on children and on each other;
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Recognize ways that stress, anger, violence, substance use, and emotions cause problems.
Service goals: The counselor functions as a parent coordinator to manage chronic, recurring disputes such as visitation conflicts and to help parents to adhere to court orders in highly conflicted separating and divorcing families. Interventions include helping parents understand the effects of their conflict on their children, to help them improve and protect good relationships with their children, provide advice and assistance in implementing their visitation and custody plans, help improve communication, coordinate the safe care of their children and help children cope with the stress and fears.
All services and classes of the New Skills and Choices Programs are treatment focused, confidential and not subject to assessments, reports or testifying.
Sessions day/times are made by appointment only. Please contact our main number at 408-774-1009.