Full Notification

The City of Thousand Oaks and the Thousand Oaks Police Department have a mutual interest with the community in ensuring that children reach their scholastic and personal growth potential. In today’s society, children have several obstacles, bad influences, and distractions. Raising children is not easy. Children sometimes engage in harmful behaviors fueled by negative influences including alcohol, substance abuse, drugs, gangs, and peer pressure.



In furtherance of our commitment to the community, the Thousand Oaks Police Department will be offering a parenting class on Wednesdays for ten weeks starting on August 26, 2009. Parents with difficult, defiant, or problematic children are encouraged to attend. Our goal is to give parents guidance to develop more successful children. We are excited to offer these sessions and truly wish to support parents and offer strategies to deal with difficult children.



The course content consists of ways to address substance abuse, drugs, sex, gangs, poor grades, running away and violence. Additional content includes guidance in gaining children’s compliance of house rules, how to never argue with your child again, and how to use other parents for support. Additional information can be reviewed at www.parentproject.com. Senior Deputy Jim DeSoto of the Thousand Oaks Police Department will be the facilitator. Interested parents are asked to call Senior Deputy DeSoto for further information.