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We are pleased to offer Advanced Parenting for Challenging Children, an 8 week course designed to help parents of foster, adopted, PTSD, and other special needs children. Classes begin on January 26th.

You can register online, or call to RSVP and pay during the first class.
This 8 week course on parenting challenging children meets every Tuesday night for 8 weeks from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. The $50 registration fee covers the cost of course materials for an individual or married couple.

Is this Course for you?

Would you like to STOP THE CHAOS!

Do you need POWER TOOLS to bring love and laughter back into your life?

STRESSED OUT?

Scared about your CHILDS FUTURE?

Have ANGRY KIDS?

They can go from DEFIANCE to COMPLIANCE!

Challenging Children Are

Angry
Defiant
Destructive
Disruptive
or Diagnosed with
RAD
ADD
ODD
ADHD
PTSD
Depression
Bipolar Disorder
Asperger’s
Attachment Disorder
Tourettes Syndrome
Other Disorders

Course Presented By Lynn & Jennie Owens:

Lynn is the Children’s Pastor at South Hills Church. He graduated from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago in 1994 and studied at the University of Wisconsin before beginning his ministry to at-risk youth at Rawhide Boys Ranch in New London Wisconsin. After five years doing residential care, Lynn accepted the call to become the youth pastor at Appleton Alliance Church. It would be only four years however, before he felt the tug on his heart to return to residential care for some of the neediest children in the world…those without Parents.

Lynn met his wife Jennie during his tenure in Appleton. Jennie has worked with children of all ages for over 16 years. Her work experience includes teaching, leadership training, team development, event planning, volunteer recruitment and counseling. She has worked in multiple group home settings with abused and abandoned children. In addition to her MA in Education, Jennie has received extensive training in therapeutic parenting and Reactive Attachment Disorder.

Together they lived in & opened a new emergency shelter for boys in Florida. Their second resident was a six year old boy that had been in and out of shelters his entire life. One year later that boy and his 10 year old sister became Jennie & Lynn’s first children. Just 2 days after their adoption was finalized, they welcomed their third child into their home, a 10-year-old boy from Washington.

Combined, Jennie and Lynn have worked closely with over 100 children in foster & group care over the past 14 years. Their passion to help abused and neglected children prompted them to found Forever Homes. As adoptive parents to three older foster children, They continue to receive on-the-job training in helping children heal every day.

Course Development:

This course was developed as a cooperative effort with parenting expert, Nancy Thomas (attachment.org) and Lynn and Jennie Owens.