Family Education

Bloomfield Youth Assistance - Empowering Families

Youth Assistance offers a variety of programs all aimed at improving communication between parents and their children, understanding child development, and enhancing parenting skills. By offering a variety of programs, families can choose the program that meets their needs at the time, and can continue to attend sessions as their children grow and change, presenting new issues that need to be addressed. These programs are frequently co-sponsored by other community groups, libraries and local schools.

Resources

Raising digitally smart kids

Presented by Bloomfield Youth Guidance. Author and speaker Julie Fisher, M.Ed is an educational consultant and coach who specializes in creating solutions to parenting, technology use, and social media issues. This session is focused on issues related to elementary school students and their caregivers.

Raising digitally smart tweens & teens

Winter Wellness in the Woods

Winter Wellness In The Woods is presented by BYA, BHS Foundation, PTOC Health & Wellness Foundation, and the Johnson Nature Center. The families gathered together on a cold, sunny afternoon to learn how to manage big emotions from expert Jessica Cortez, LMSW, and Nature Center Naturalists.

Vaping: What Parents & Teens Need To Know

When it comes to vaping, what you don't know can hurt both you and those you love. BHHS in partnership with the Bloomfield Township Police Department, the Bloomfield Youth Assistance and the Birmingham Bloomfield Community Coalition sponsored this vaping information and dialogue event.

Attendance: Does it Matter?

School attendance: does it matter? Watch now, school truancy video brought to you by Oakland County Youth Assistance program.