Two courthouses, one county
If you live in Port St. Lucie and a judge has mentioned anger management, start by working out which building your case belongs to. The Nineteenth Judicial Circuit's location page, cited below, lists two St. Lucie County courthouses. The main courthouse is on S 2nd St. in Fort Pierce, and the annex is on NW Country Club Dr. inside Port Saint Lucie itself. Your paperwork names the court and gives a case number. Keep both within reach, because any class provider will want to know what kind of case you have and who is keeping track of it.
Where family cases land
Not every referral starts with a criminal charge. The circuit's Family Division, also cited below, hears dissolutions of marriage, child custody and support, adoptions, paternity, modification proceedings, name changes and domestic violence injunctions. If a requirement grew out of one of those files, the wording of the judge's order sets the terms, not a class provider and not this site. Read it line by line. Some orders name a number of hours, some name a format, and some leave the choice to you. Only the court, or the officer supervising you, decides whether a particular program fits an order.
State supervision is run from Fort Pierce
The Florida Department of Corrections handles state probation for St. Lucie County through its Ft. Pierce Circuit Office, which also covers Indian River, Martin and Okeechobee counties. The department's page lists an intake office and a second office called Ft. Pierce East, both on South US 1 in Ft. Pierce, with further offices in Stuart, Vero Beach and Okeechobee. If you report to one of them, your officer is the first person to ask before you spend money on a class. Bring the provider's name, the format and the session count, and ask plainly whether that will be acceptable. Get the reply in writing, or at least note the date and the officer's name.
Living south of the county seat
Port St. Lucie covers a lot of ground, and a class that looks near on a map can still mean a slow crawl across town in the evening. Before you sign up, think about where you will actually be on the nights a group meets: at work, at a child's school pickup, at the annex for a hearing. Some people look for a provider near the Country Club Dr. annex so that hearings and classes share one route. Others pick a room close to home and use video when a provider offers it. If you plan to take a class online, ask ahead of time whether your officer or judge will count remote attendance, because the answer can differ from one case to the next.
Drive times on this page are approximate. From much of Port St. Lucie, getting to the Fort Pierce courthouse or to the probation offices on US 1 takes roughly half an hour, and longer when traffic is heavy.
Referred and voluntary are different starting points
Plenty of people in Port St. Lucie look for an anger management class with no case at all. A partner asked them to, a manager raised it at a review, or they noticed the same argument repeating and want a plan for it. If that is you, you are free to choose on format, schedule and length alone. If a court or an officer sent you, treat their instructions as the first filter and your own preferences as the second.
Questions to put to any provider
- How many hours does the class run, and how are sessions spread across the weeks?
- Is it a group or one-to-one, and roughly how many people sit in a group?
- What does the completion letter say, and who gets a copy of it?
- What happens if you miss a night because of a shift change or a hearing?
- Can you read about the instructor's background before you enroll?
- Are there evening or weekend sections, and is video an option?
Write down what each provider tells you. If you are under supervision, show those notes to your officer before you commit to anything.
Keep your own file
Whatever you pick, keep a folder of your own: the order or referral letter, the receipt, the attendance record and the completion letter. If a hearing date moves, or a new officer takes over your case, you can show what you did without waiting on anyone. Photograph each page with your phone as a backup copy.
How this directory fits in
This site lists independent providers who serve the Port St. Lucie area. We do not run classes and we do not check anyone's credentials, so treat a listing as the start of your own questions rather than an answer. The court and corrections pages cited below are the authority on where your case sits and who supervises it.