For Family and Support Persons

Dads play a big role, too. In this dads-only, one-time session you’ll learn about what’s happening with your partner throughout pregnancy, labor, and delivery. Led by an experienced “Dad’s class” educator, you’ll also get tips and advice on how to support your partner now and when you take your new baby home.

Prevent accidents and injuries of infants and children by learning about home safety products, how to store poisons, and what to do in an emergency. This class will also cover basic first aid for allergic reactions, broken bones, burns, cuts, and falls.

Learn about practical baby care topics that will help you to feel more confident in your ability to care for your newborn. This class is open to all types of caregivers and support people (parents, grandparents, day care providers).

Practice CPR and choking rescue techniques with baby and child-sized mannequins. You will also learn how to use an automatic external defibrillator (AED). This class uses the American Heart Association’s “Family and Friends” CPR course, and you will receive an AHA resource book to take home. This class is not for certification.

This class is the equivalent of understanding fatherhood but built with the understanding that families and support systems are all special and unique. This class is for those who support the birth parent during pregnancy and postpartum. This could be a partner, support person, father, mother, dad, mom, boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, husband, co-parent, grandparent, friend, family member, female and/or male nurturer, mother figures, and anyone who wants to understand the importance of supporting the birth parent in the pregnancy and postpartum period.

In this one-time class, you will learn how to support a birthing person during pregnancy and childbirth, as well as in the early weeks of recovery after birth. This will allow you to offer effective support. Education will be provided on getting the laboring birth parent to the hospital, care for the birth parent and newborn during the hospital stay, and the first few weeks of care and safety of the new baby at home.

Coffee connection for dads, partners, & more - Facilitated by an experienced "dads" instructor, these interactive discussion groups offer those providing support and care in the pregnancy and postpartum period an informal opportunity to learn, connect and be encouraged along the way.