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  • Life Skills Class

    Each summer the staff of APP offers a two week intensive for young adults.

  • CASA program uses volunteers to advocate for kids

    CASA program uses volunteers to advocate for kids

    Editor’s Note: The article originally appears on 1/4/21 in www.knoxpages.com. Reprinted here with permission. MOUNT VERNON — Cheryl Splain, Correspondent For children involved in abuse, neglect, and dependency cases, safe, permanent housing is critical to their long-term well-being. Knox County Juvenile Judge Jay Nixon is charged with determining whether these children should return to their […]

  • Wraparound: A Care Paradigm

    Wraparound: A Care Paradigm

    At Ashland Parenting Plus (APP), all of the available programs work together to help surround clients with care. The entire ethos of the agency is to help foster growth that leads toward whole, healthy lives. However, there is one program in particular that seeks to help families find healing and support within their own communities: […]

  • Parenting Plus – An Overview

    Parenting Plus – An Overview

                Ashland County is a special place. One can enjoy everything from a hike in the woods to dinner at a trendy downtown spot to a lecture series at our fine university. It is a section of Ohio that provides texture and depth, which helps to solidify the definition of […]

  • APP Shaping the Future: Ashland Source

    APP Shaping the Future: Ashland Source

    Want a better idea about what we do?  Check out this Ashland Source story: Ashland Parenting Plus shaping future for Ashland County families through United Way funding 

  • its Cyber Monday…help us help others… #amazonsmile

    its Cyber Monday…help us help others… #amazonsmile

    This Cyber Monday, do your regular Amazon shopping at smile.amazon.com/ch/34-1499271 and AmazonSmile donates to Ashland Parenting Plus.  

  • Mocktail Mixer promotes Safe Driving

    Mocktail Mixer promotes Safe Driving

    Editors note:  Originally Published in December 6, 2013 edition of the Ashland Times Gazette By Courtney Day T-G Staff Writer APP’s Entry: Peppermint Egg Nog 1 2 liter of Ginger Ale 1 1/2 gallon Egg Nog 1 carton Peppermint Attendance was light at Ashland County Safe Communities Coalition‘s Mocktail Mixer on Thursday, but community members […]

  • Digital Kids Initiative?

    Digital Kids Initiative?

    The cultural context of children and teens is changing at breakneck speed, especially when it comes to technology. These changes leave kids facing a host of unprecedented problems, challenges, and choices. Because parents, youth workers, educators and other adults are by and large ignorant to these changes, their ability to influence, guide and direct teens […]

  • Learning from Steubenville

    Learning from Steubenville

    As I sit and reflect on the events that have been unfolding in Stuebenville, this post came across my Facebook.  As I read the words, I was silently cheering, YES! in my head, but my eyes filled with tears; this is someone’s daughter, I have two daughters.  These are someones sons, I also have two […]