Programs & Registration

The COBYS Educational Life Department provides a wide range of training and education programs designed to support healthy relationships and thriving families. Although well-known for our parenting courses, our mission reaches even further — we are committed to nurturing human potential. Through evidence-based courses, we help adults and teens build relational skills, strengthen their families, and invest in their personal well-being.

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COBYS Courses & Workshops

Courses that are currently being offered have their dates and times shown. Those without dates listed will be offered in the near future, but do not have their schedule finalized yet.

Blues Program for Teens

The Blues Program is an evidence-based prevention program that gives young people (aged 14-18) the tools to look after their emotional well-being and the skills to push back and take more control over negative thoughts and feelings.
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Cooperative Co-Parenting

Divorce or separation is a reality for millions of families. Co-parenting is an intentional commitment to put the children first. Join other co-parents in this free skill-building program to help you navigate the challenges of co-parenting.
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Incredible Years Autism & Language Delays Program

This 8-session program is geared to parents of young children (ages 2–9) on the autism spectrum or with language delays.
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Kinship Programs

Kinship arrangements are often unanticipated. COBYS offers consultations and a resource/referral line to help caregivers meet the unique household needs and challenges they can present.
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Parenting Autism

This educational discussion group is for parents and/or caregivers raising children on the autism spectrum, providing education, advocacy, and support.
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Parenting Wisely

Parenting Wisely provides parents and youth (ages 9–10 and up) with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to build stronger parent-child relationships and to promote regular school attendance. It is a court-approved alternative adjudication program in Lancaster County.
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Seeking Safety

Many people affected by trauma turn to addictive behaviors to try to manage difficult feelings. Seeking Safety is a group therapy program that discusses tools to help you manage these symptoms and to cope effectively.
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Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) Community Parenting Class

This 10-week, evidence-based program is designed to support parents and caregivers of children from birth through age 18, helping to strengthen attachment and nurture healthy parent-child relationships. This is an approved program of the Lancaster County Children & Youth Social Service Agency.
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Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) for Foster & Kinship Parents

Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children from “hard places” such as abuse, neglect, and/or trauma. Eligibility for this program is limited to foster and kinship parents.
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Parenting Workshops

Our online workshops help you navigate the challenges of parenting with love and understanding. Open to parents, caregivers, kinship parents, and anyone else helping to raise or care for children.
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Become a Blues Program Trainer!​

The Blues Program is an evidence-based prevention program that gives young people the tools to look after their emotional well-being and the skills to push back and take more control over negative thoughts and feelings. In order for these programs to be effective, a certified Blues Program Trainer must lead the group. COBYS Family Services is the exclusive Trainer of Trainers (TOT) for new site implementation of the Blues Program.

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