Patty Wipfler was born, raised, and educated in California, graduating from Occidental College in 1968, and is the mother of two sons. The focus of her work since 1974 has been teaching basic listening, parenting,
Teresa is a native of El Salvador, and has been using Hand in Hand Parenting since her eldest was a toddler. She discovered this work through a Tears and Tantrums class. Teresa now has two children,
Adriana Castillo was born in Mexico and came to the Santa Cruz with her husband Pedro in 1990. After their first daughter was born in 1991, Adriana joined a parents group at the Family Health
Parents love their children. Parents try hard. They do their best every single day. Hand in Hand provides support and helpful information for new parents on everything from Responding Well to Crying to Helping Baby
Communicate with parents like you “Can I just say that I’ve been on so many parenting websites, and the amount of support and genuine help people offer here has overwhelmed me. I’ve never known anything
Together we have made a difference in the lives of so many families Over the the last 30+ years, Hand in Hand Parenting has worked with hundreds of groups to meet individual community needs through
Emerging research from the fields of public health, psychology, education and others demonstrates that the condition of “parent-child connectedness” serves as an important protective factor for a variety of adolescent health outcomes… [Parent-child connectedness] is
He was doing his thing, but he was thinking about me, too.