Empower Your Parenting Journey

Looking to strengthen your parenting skills while building emotional resilience? EMU’s CFSC Parenting Groups offer a transformative experience through the acclaimed Mom Power program—an evidence-based, trauma-informed, and attachment-focused initiative designed for mothers from pregnancy through early childhood. With proven outcomes including reduced depression and PTSD symptoms, enhanced parenting confidence, and deeper emotional connection with children, our groups are more than support groups—they are a catalyst for lasting change. Whether you join in person or virtually, we can help you cultivate self-care, understand child behavior, and connect with a nurturing community. Discover how our parenting groups and services can elevate your parenting and well-being today.

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  Clinical psychology graduate students under the supervision of a licensed psychologist
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  Online or in-person (Community Behavioral Health Clinic with complementary child care)
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  1 group offered a semester - typically Summer and Winter are virtual, and Fall is in-person
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  $80 for those who are not part of the satellite locations; Fee waivers are available on request.

Mom Power

• What It Is
• Benefits

Mom Power is a 10-week, attachment-based and trauma-informed group designed to support mothers from pregnancy through parenting children up to age 6. Offered once each semester through EMU’s CFSC, Mom Power helps moms build self-care practices, strengthen connections with their children, and better understand child behavior. In the Fall semester, the group is typically offered in person at the EMU Clinic and includes a therapeutic child group where children participate in developmentally supportive care alongside trained professionals. In the Winter and Summer semesters, Mom Power is typically offered virtually, allowing for full participation from home.

• Mom Power is most effective for mothers experiencing high levels of stress or histories of trauma and adversity.
• Mothers show reductions in depression, PTSD symptoms, and parenting stress.
• Mothers report decreased social isolation.
• Mothers have improved confidence and comfort in parenting.
• Mothers increase their understanding of children's behaviors and motivations.
• Two-thirds of Mom Power graduates are connected with ongoing care within the community.
• Mothers report increased capacity to reflect on and respond to their own and their children's emotions.
• Brain imaging studies show that mothers who participate in Mom Power demonstrate greater activation of "empathy circuits" when observing their children's emotions. 
• Mom Power is the first program of its kind to document functional changes in the maternal brain.