Ready, Set, Go!
Parenting and Family Programs for Single Parent Families
What is Ready, Set, Go!?
Ready, Set, Go! is a ten-module, certified, evidence-based Parenting and Personal Development Program designed specifically for single-parent families. It is designed around a single, clear purpose: equipping parents with the strategies, skills, and support they need to build healthy relationships, establish positive habits, and move forward with confidence—while reducing stress, lowering anxiety, and decreasing harsh parenting practices on their journey.
The Program is offered free of charge. Participants may enroll in person or online, depending on what works best for their situation.
How the Program Works
Ready, Set, Go! uses a mastery-based group learning model. This means that participants move through each module together, and no one advances until everyone in the group fully understands, applies, and demonstrates the skills being taught and transferred.
It is not a one-size-fits-all experience. The pace adapts to each group’s needs—accounting for individual trauma levels, learning goals, and comprehension — so that real, lasting change happens on a timeline that supports genuine skill-building rather than rushing through it.
Each participant receives dual support throughout the Program: a qualified group facilitator who guides the sessions, and an individual therapist who provides personalized guidance tailored to each parent’s specific goals and challenges.
This human-centered design ensures the Program meets participants where they are—not where a curriculum assumes they should be.
Delivery formats are flexible. Sessions range from 90-minute workshops to half-day or full-day intensives, with options for month-long programs or extended multi-module sequences spanning several months. The structure is built around the lives of the people it serves.
What Single Parents Learn
The ten modules of Ready, Set, Go! cover the full landscape of single-parent family life. Topics include Self-Care, Building Meaningful Connections, Understanding Child Development, Cultivating Healthy Family Structures and Values, Recognizing and Shifting Parenting Styles, Navigating Co-Parenting, Managing Crisis and Growing Through Change, Building a Resilient Family Culture, and Completing an Integrated Family Project that brings together everything learned and skills acquired across the Program.
A new Program Module, MindTown, was introduced in January 2025 and focuses specifically on personal development—strengthening mental health, resilience, and emotional intelligence through effective stress management. Together, these Programs and Modules form a comprehensive, trauma-informed journey through the skills that matter most.
Program Approach
Everything in Ready, Set, Go! is grounded in four evidence-based principles. Trauma-informed care shapes every interaction, ensuring that the causes and consequences of trauma are understood and addressed—not ignored. A transformative learning premise guides each session, connecting best parenting practices to personalized, actionable next steps. Cognitive and dialectical considerations help participants bridge the gap between what they already know and what they are learning. And social and emotional intelligence applications are woven throughout, encouraging the kind of self-awareness and relational insight that translates directly into stronger parenting.
What Participants Can Expect to Experience
When parents complete Ready, Set, Go!, the outcomes speak for themselves. Participants consistently report a deeper understanding of themselves and their children, a meaningful reduction in anxiety, depression, frustration, and post-traumatic stress, and a stronger sense of self-worth and confidence. Many find that their ability to manage emotions—and to help their children do the same—improves significantly. Harsh parenting practices, including yelling, shouting, and physical aggression, decrease. And perhaps most importantly, the bond between parent and child grows stronger.
Ready, Set, Go! is more than a Parenting class. It is a structured, supported, trauma-informed pathway toward the kind of family life that single parents deserve to build.
Before I enrolled into the Katy Cares Trauma Informed Therapeutic Program, I saw the world in black and white. After I graduated, I now see the world in color!
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For more information, contact:
Kristin Dean
Social Services Director
kristin.dean@katycares.org
Dr. Carousel Pieterse
Program Director
carousel.pieterse@katycares.org