Meeting last Thursday of each month at Lutheran Social Services of Illinois

API promotes parenting practices that create strong, healthy emotional bonds between children and their parents. API believes these practices nurture and fulfill a child's need for trust, empathy, and affection, providing a lifelong foundation for healthy, enduring relationships. Through education, support, advocacy and research, API seeks to strengthen families and increase awareness of the importance of secure attachment, ultimately helping to reduce or prevent child abuse, behavioral disorders, criminal acts and other serious social problems.