Barbara Krovitz-Neren, M.A
Barbara Krovitz-Neren, M.A. has been a youth and parenting advocate for over 35 years. She was co-founder and director of Children Are People, and founder of Confident Kids, where she created a support group model for elementary and middle school age youth at risk and for children of alcoholics. She trained individuals in school districts, community social service agencies, and parent groups in Minnesota, nationally, and internationally. As a pioneer in the prevention field, she has created programs that have impacted over 50,000 youth and families. She is the founder of Competent Parents, Confident Kids and has created a new program through her work with thousands of children and families called “Foundational Parenting.â€
Foundational Parenting Programs will do the following for parents in all programs:
- Provide support to parents to learn strategies to strengthen their core
- Teach parents to balance their life to be more available to their families
- Teach parents to take back their power from an addicted system, divorcing family, or family with major stressors
- Teach strategies to increase emotional connection with their children
- Teach new approaches to being non-reactive with their children
- Teach strategies to be more present with their children
- Strengthen parents parenting to create increased joy in their families
- Encourage clarity of family values, and rules