Richard R RamosRichard R. Ramos. Founder of Parents on a Mission,Youth on a Mission, and Latino Coalition for Community Leadership

Real Stories of Healing: How Parenting Classes Reunite Families!

30 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube segment, the speaker shares a recent shout‑out from the director of care management praising the parenting class for helping participants become better parents. The speaker then recounts a specific client case: an estranged father with two adult daughters, a son, and a granddaughter he has never met. The father feels powerless to reconnect with his family. The facilitator advises him to abandon digital contact and instead write a handwritten letter each week. The father follows the plan, eventually exhausting the facilitator’s supply of stamps and paper, demonstrating commitment to the practice. The anecdote illustrates how the class’s principles can translate into concrete actions that rebuild family ties.

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Yesterday, our director of care management shared this shout out to all of our parents on a mission facilitators just received this feedback from a client. The parenting class has helped me look more into myself and become a better person and a father to my child. Wow! That's phenomenal. One of the challenges, and this was like maybe my my second group that I taught. There was a gentleman in there, and he's like, you know, I've got two adult daughters and a son. And I've got a granddaughter that I've never met, and I've been in and out, in and out, and they don't talk to me. He's like, I don't know what to do. And so I said, well, let's take some principles from what we're learning here. I said, we're not going to call, we're not going to text, we're not going to email. Every week you are going to write a letter. That's it. You're going to send a letter. And so every week he eventually ran me out of stamps and letters. I had to go get more. But I was like, yeah, like I gave you the idea. I'm here to help you. With that.