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The Lou Grant Parent-Child Workshop is a cooperative parent education and early childhood program offered by Santa Barbara City College in partnership with the non-profit organization known as the Lou Grant Parent-Child Workshop.  The children's morning program serves as the lab for the evening non-credit parent education course, is licensed as a cooperative by the state of California, and is governed by a parent-led board of directors.  

Santa Barbara City College provides two instructors for the evening course and morning labs. The instructors are adjunct faculty members of the college and serve as the director and assistant director of the morning program.  They work with the non-profit board of directors, shaping the policies and procedures of the cooperative.  With the instructor/directors’ guidance, parents and other adult students work with the children in the morning program, facilitating their learning through play and applying principles studied in the evening class.