| Friday 05/23/2025 |
Virtual – Speech & Language Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. This is a virtual interactive workshop to equip new parents, grandparents and caregivers with tools, practical tips and valuable suggestions to help your child get off to a great start with their speech and language development. Participants will also learn baby sign language which is helpful to use with your child before they are able to say words. Using baby signs helps eliminate frustration and can help your child communicate with ease. Date: Friday, May 23, 2025 Time: 10AM – 12PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Tuesday 05/27/2025 |
Virtual - Parent Education Class by Family Paths
Family paths offer parenting classes. All types of parents-mothers, fathers, expecting parents, foster & kinship care providers, adoptive parents, LGBT parents, and others involved in parenting roles are invited to learn about positive parenting, child development, and more including self-care. Date: Every Tuesday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Contact: 800-829-3777 |
| Tuesday 05/27/2025 |
Virtual – New Moms (3-part series)
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Congratulations on becoming a new mom! Right now you may be feeling a lot of emotions. If you are excited, worried, overwhelmed, or overjoyed, then you’re totally normal. Finding a circle of support is a great way to lessen the stress of caring for a newborn. At each of our support groups, moms will get to share their feelings, ask questions and build friendships with one another. Come and join us and bring your baby along! Date: Every Tuesday Time: 10AM – 12PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Thursday 05/29/2025 |
Virtual – Calm & Connected Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Understanding Your Nervous System Join the Calm and Connected workshop and learn how to rewire emotional responses. Parents will dive deep unlocking a powerful approach to understand their nervous system, discovering how past experiences shape current reactions, and develop practical strategies to interrupt automatic stress patterns. By exploring the roots of anger, anxiety, and emotional triggers, participants will learn techniques to break intergenerational cycles of reactive behavior. This workshop is about empowering parents to create intentional, connected, and resilient relationships with themselves and their children. Date: Thursday, May 29, 2025 Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Friday 05/30/2025 |
Virtual – Storytelling Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Sharing stories with our children increases early language development and enhances their ability to express themselves, tap into their imagination and communicate thoughts, feelings, and ideas. Through this workshop, parents will gain confidence in their storytelling abilities, learn fun techniques and explore creative activities that help inspire and connect more deeply with their little ones. This is an interactive workshop where we will get to hear a story, tell a tale, and sing a song or two! Date: Friday, May 30, 2025 Time: 10AM – 12PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Tuesday 06/03/2025 |
Virtual - Parent Education Class by Family Paths
Family paths offer parenting classes. All types of parents-mothers, fathers, expecting parents, foster & kinship care providers, adoptive parents, LGBT parents, and others involved in parenting roles are invited to learn about positive parenting, child development, and more including self-care. Date: Every Tuesday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Contact: 800-829-3777 |
| Tuesday 06/03/2025 |
Virtual – Hiring a Nanny 101 Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. If you’re thinking of hiring a nanny, then this is the workshop for you! Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network will discuss the details of being an employer, including your rights and responsibilities. The workshop will offer a variety of resources; tips for hiring and interviewing, establishing wages and a work agreement, how to ensure a fair, safe workplace, and the laws for nanny employment. Discussion will also offer ideas on how to create a positive, long-term relationship with your employee and time to talk about your experiences, ask questions, and share concerns. Date: Tuesday, June 03, 2025 Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Tuesday 06/03/2025 |
Virtual – Fathering From Within Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. This is a series designed to empower all fathers and help navigate relationships and social norms that may hinder effective parenting. It will also offer personal tools that define or redefine one’s sense of identity and purpose, and establish guiding principles for fatherhood. Participants will learn that everything we need to know about being a great dad is, and always has been, inside us. All we have to do is find it, share with our children, and make their future bright and promising. Date: Every Tuesday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Thursday 06/05/2025 |
Virtual – Calm & Connected Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Transforming Anger and Anxiety Join the Calm and Connected workshop and learn how to rewire emotional responses. Parents will dive deep unlocking a powerful approach to understand their nervous system, discovering how past experiences shape current reactions, and develop practical strategies to interrupt automatic stress patterns. By exploring the roots of anger, anxiety, and emotional triggers, participants will learn techniques to break intergenerational cycles of reactive behavior. This workshop is about empowering parents to create intentional, connected, and resilient relationships with themselves and their children. Date: Every Thursday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Friday 06/06/2025 |
Virtual – Communication & Sensory Skills Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. This is a series designed to empower all fathers and help navigate relationships and social norms that may hinder effective parenting. It will also offer personal tools that define or redefine one’s sense of identity and purpose, and establish guiding principles for fatherhood. Participants will learn that everything we need to know about being a great dad is, and always has been, inside us. All we have to do is find it, share with our children, and make their future bright and promising. Date: Tuesday, June 06, 2025 Time: 10AM – 12PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Tuesday 06/10/2025 |
Virtual - Parent Education Class by Family Paths
Family paths offer parenting classes. All types of parents-mothers, fathers, expecting parents, foster & kinship care providers, adoptive parents, LGBT parents, and others involved in parenting roles are invited to learn about positive parenting, child development, and more including self-care. Date: Every Tuesday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Contact: 800-829-3777 |
| Tuesday 06/10/2025 |
Virtual – Fathering From Within Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. This is a series designed to empower all fathers and help navigate relationships and social norms that may hinder effective parenting. It will also offer personal tools that define or redefine one’s sense of identity and purpose, and establish guiding principles for fatherhood. Participants will learn that everything we need to know about being a great dad is, and always has been, inside us. All we have to do is find it, share with our children, and make their future bright and promising. Date: Every Tuesday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Thursday 06/12/2025 |
Virtual – Calm & Connected Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Transforming Anger and Anxiety Join the Calm and Connected workshop and learn how to rewire emotional responses. Parents will dive deep unlocking a powerful approach to understand their nervous system, discovering how past experiences shape current reactions, and develop practical strategies to interrupt automatic stress patterns. By exploring the roots of anger, anxiety, and emotional triggers, participants will learn techniques to break intergenerational cycles of reactive behavior. This workshop is about empowering parents to create intentional, connected, and resilient relationships with themselves and their children. Date: Every Thursday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Friday 06/13/2025 |
Virtual – Sharing Parenting Issues Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Why is it that parents aren’t supposed to complain about their kids? Parents know their children are a blessing and what they’ve signed up for. It doesn’t mean raising children isn’t sometimes difficult. Sharing a struggle doesn’t make a parent ungrateful. This workshop provides a safe space to express your parenting challenges, to share ideas and resolve with other parenting adults. Date: Thursday, June 13, 2025 Time: 10AM – 12PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Tuesday 06/17/2025 |
Virtual - Parent Education Class by Family Paths
Family paths offer parenting classes. All types of parents-mothers, fathers, expecting parents, foster & kinship care providers, adoptive parents, LGBT parents, and others involved in parenting roles are invited to learn about positive parenting, child development, and more including self-care. Date: Every Tuesday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Contact: 800-829-3777 |
| Tuesday 06/17/2025 |
Virtual – Fathering From Within Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. This is a series designed to empower all fathers and help navigate relationships and social norms that may hinder effective parenting. It will also offer personal tools that define or redefine one’s sense of identity and purpose, and establish guiding principles for fatherhood. Participants will learn that everything we need to know about being a great dad is, and always has been, inside us. All we have to do is find it, share with our children, and make their future bright and promising. Date: Every Tuesday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Wednesday 06/18/2025 |
Virtual - Choosing Childcare Workshop
This workshop is presented by BANANAS. Finding childcare for your infant, toddler or preschooler is one of the most important decisions you will make as a parent. This workshop will discuss types of care, how to screen and interview potential providers. Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 Time: 10AM – 12PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Link: Click here to register. |
| Tuesday 06/24/2025 |
Virtual - Parent Education Class by Family Paths
Family paths offer parenting classes. All types of parents-mothers, fathers, expecting parents, foster & kinship care providers, adoptive parents, LGBT parents, and others involved in parenting roles are invited to learn about positive parenting, child development, and more including self-care. Date: Every Tuesday Time: 6:30PM – 8:30PM Location: Virtual Cost: Free Contact: 800-829-3777 |
| Tuesday 06/24/2025 |
Newark – Big Truck Day
Get close up to big trucks at the Silliman Community Activity Center. This free event is open to everyone, come learn and see the big trucks and machines that keep the City of Newark clean and safe. Kids will be able to take pictures, ask questions, and explore different trucks. Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2025 Time: 10AM – 11:30AM Location: George M. Silliman Community Activity Center, 6800 Mowry Ave., Newark Cost: Free |
