Ananda offers a 52 week program to parents referred by Criminal Court for child abuse and endangerment (per Penal Code section 273,) and to parents referred by Family Court and Child Protective Services.

We provide cognitive and behavioral therapy, anger and impulse control, and insight therapy enabling parents to understand and experience the emotions that underlie their anger.

Anger is often a secondary emotion that masks deeper, unaddressed emotions of abandonment, hurt, neglect, and abuse experienced during childhood. Child abuse and neglect often manifest again in the subsequent generation. As we increase the parents' awareness of their own mistreatment as children, we increase their empathy for their own childrens' experience. This helps them keep from revisiting their painful childhood experiences on their own children.

In addition, we help parents develop critical skills for effective parenting and understanding child development, as well as familiarize them with basic behavioral management strategies and early childhood development in general.

We welcome the opportunity to expand our child abuse intervention services to parents on probation, offering a hybrid blend of anger impulse control and parenting skills meant to increase the participants' awareness of parental responsibility, reducing blaming/shaming behavior, increasing respect for children and intimate partners, as well as self-respect, and addressing underlying issues of unresolved pain and grief related to the parents' own abandonment, neglect and abuse.