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Family Services , Human Services

Bartow family resources comes along side other helping agencies in our community to provide every person the opportunity to experience life. Whether that means the god-given right to be born, or the opportunity to live a life of purpose and fulfillment, free of the brokenness and pain of abuse and dysfunction. We accomplish the mission through an incentivized learning program as client can "earn" items such as diapers, wipes, clothes etc. . . By participating in prenatal, parenting, marriage and other classes most of our clients are on very limited incomes. We operate a medical clinic to educate, encourage and empower women in their pregnancy journey. We accomplish this through clinical quality pregnancy tests, limited obstetrical ultrasounds, confidential counseling and education regarding parenting, odoption and abortion options. Our goal is to equip women to make healthy, life-affirming choices that will impact them and their unborn children. parenting program - we offer nine different parenting education classes for parents in our community along with many parenting based support groups. If families are helped the whole community benefits the relationship center's purpose is to come along side all bartow family resource clients to provide relationship support and education. We provide peer counseling training such as our "people helping" course, "pair", suicide intervention and prevention and "the blessing", a life coaching programs. For new dads, "boot camp for new dads". Our main support group is "making peace with your past" by tim sledge. We have several community studies that we do such as "how to avoid falling for a jerk" a