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Cultural and ethnic diversity
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National Indian Child Welfare Association
Description: Every Indian child must have access to community-based, culturally-appropriate services which help them grow up safe, healthy and spiritually strong – free from abuse, neglect, sexual exploitation and the damaging effects of substance abuse. The website discusses and expresses this philosophy.
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A Process for Learning About and Creating Programs for Culturally Diverse Audiences 
Author: Skogrand, Linda
Description: This fact sheet describes how important it is to create educational programs with the newer culturally diverse society in mind.
Association of MultiEthnic Americans (AMEA)
Description: The Association of MultiEthnic Americans (AMEA), a non-profit organization, is an international association of organizations dedicated to advocacy, education and collaboration on behalf of the multiethnic, multiracial and transracial adoption community.
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health
Description: The mission of the American Indian and Alaska Native Programs (AIANP) is to promote the health and well-being of American Indians and Alaska Natives, of all ages, by pursuing research, training, continuing education, technical assistance, and information dissemination within a biopsychosocial framework that recognizes the unique cultural contexts of this special population.
Cultural Responsiveness in Family Services
Author: Pinder-Cook, Shirley
Description: To fully achieve the goals of respite and crisis care and other family support services, it is essential that all aspects of program operations, staff development and training incorporate and support cultural responsiveness. The shift to cultural responsiveness and multicultural programming will require change, risk-taking, training, courage, and coordinating a variety of new and different resources.
Diversity Activities for Youth and Adults
Description: This publications highlights diversity activities for youth and adults.
Description: Extensión en Español is a grass roots organization of Extension educators which seeks to better serve Spanish-speaking clients by sharing expertise and materials across the Cooperative Extension System. See "Family and Personal" for a list of the publications available in Spanish.
Issues for Immigrant Parents and Their Children
Author: Direnfeld, Gary
Description: This article discusses how immigrant families to Canada and the United States can face many issues complicating their adjustment to the new host culture.
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Description: Extensión en Español offers publications in Spanish on a host of topics, with links to other Spanish-language publication sites.
Intercultural Development Research Association
Description: IDRA is an independent, non-profit organization that advocates the right of every child to a quality education. For almost 30 years, IDRA has worked for excellence and equity in education in Texas and across the United States. IDRA conducts research and development activities; creates, implements and administers innovative education programs; and provides teacher, administrator, and parent training and technical assistance.
Description: Olderindians.org is dedicated to providing a forum for increased communication between Title VI programs. Particularly, this webpage will facilitate communication and information dissemination pertaining to Training and Technical Assistance for Title VI Directors. This webpage intends to provide relevant and useful information so that Title VI directors can improve their programs to better meet the needs of older Indians.
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Author: Brown, Cheryl; Karen Debord
Description: This is a training guide aimed at childcare educators and adults to better understand the messages children receive about diversity and stereotyping.
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A Profile of the Low-Wage Immigrant Workforce
Description: This study examines the size of the low-wage immigrant labor force, as well as the educational attainment, English language ability, legal status, and gender of low-wage immigrant workers.
Active Living Diversity Project
Author: Collins, Gail
Description: RWJF retained Pyramid Communications to identify the barriers to and opportunities for developing effective programs to increase physical activity and healthy eating in the African American, Latino and Native American communities.
Association of MultiEthnic Americans (AMEA)
Description: The Association of MultiEthnic Americans (AMEA), a non-profit organization, is an international association of organizations dedicated to advocacy, education and collaboration on behalf of the multiethnic, multiracial and transracial adoption community.
Beating the Odds: How Ethnically Diverse Fathers Matter
Author: Behnke, Andrew
Description: This article discusses why fathers count and provides a better understanding of how ethnic minority fathers matter to their children and families.
Author: O'Connor, Cailin; Siobhan M. Cooney; Stephen A. Smith
Description: This article summarizes current research on cultural and ethnic diversity influence how programs vary in their effectiveness for youth and families from different cultural backgrounds, what is known and what areas are in need of more research.
Culture and Parenting: A Guide for Delivering Parenting Curriculums to Diverse Families
Author: Ontai, Lenna; Ann M. Mastergeorge; Families with Young Children Workgroup
Description: This booklet is an information guide for practitioners for delivering parenting curriculums. It provides guidance regarding the cultural sensitivity of programs and services offered to families. Cultural frameworks are described. Research and tips are provided on topics that include communication, discipline, bonding, family structures, gender roles, play, and sleeping. Checklists are provided.Â
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Description: Diversitydata.org allows visitors to explore how metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. perform on a diverse range of social measures that comprise a well-rounded life experience. These data call attention to the equality of opportunity and diversity of experiences for different racial and ethnic groups in America.
Author: Collins, Gail
Description: This report profiles the 2000 status of and changes since 1990 in rates of health and health-related measures for racially and culturally diverse populations living in the nation's 100 largest cities and their suburbs. Data were drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to identify patterns in race/ethnicity, foreign-born status, language use, poverty, income, low birth weight, teen births, prenatal care and tuberculosis.
Description: Effective Black Parenting (EBPP), a cognitive-behavioral program, was created to meet the specific needs of African-American parents. It seeks to foster effective family communication, healthy African-American identity, extended family values, child growth and development, and healthy self-esteem. In addition, it facilitates efforts to combat child abuse, substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, gang violence, learning disorders, behavior problems, and emotional disturbances. The program is grounded in basic parenting strategies and information appropriate for all socio-economic status levels but especially for parents of children aged 2-12 years old. The program is taught in two formats: as a class with 15 three-hour training sessions that emphasize role playing and home behavior change projects, and a one-day seminar version for very large groups of parents. Black educators and mental health professionals teach a series of basic child management skills using African proverbs, African American linguistic forms and emphasizing African American achievement and competence. In addition, the interactive groups address: Respectful and Rule-Breaking Behaviors; Traditional and Modern Discipline; Black Pride; Black Self-disparagement; Coping with Racism; African Origin Family Values; Preventing Drug Use; and Single Parenting.
Author: Collins, Gail
Description: The Foundation, together with The California Endowment, Morehouse School of Medicine and Casey Family programs, sponsored a roundtable, "Equal Rights to health," to learn more about combating obesity among low-income racial and ethnic minority children. This report offers a set of suggested action items.
Description: Extensión en Español offers publications in Spanish on a host of topics, with links to other Spanish-language publication sites.
Author: Brown, Cheryl; Karen Debord
Description: This is a training guide aimed at childcare educators and adults to better understand the messages children receive about diversity and stereotyping.
Latino Parents: Unique Preferences for Learning about Parenting
Description: In order to provide maximum benefits to the growing Latino population in the United States, parent education programs must be examined to determine whether this population has unique needs that are not served with traditional parenting program curricula and delivery methods. In this study, 760 Latino parents were asked to respond to a questionnaire about their parenting information needs. Results indicate that parents prefer to receive parenting information from friends and family (75%), doctors or nurses (71%), group speakers (65%), and books (63%). Parents with higher levels of education had a greater preference for learning from books F(3,690) = 6.5, p < .0003. Topics of greatest interest included teaching responsibility to children (90%), helping children learn respect for others (89%), handling child stress (89%), helping children learn to get along with others (88%), building children's self-concept (87%), and talking with children (87%). Indications are that parent educators need to understand parents and target their programs to specific parent needs. Latino parents prefer to learn in family groupings.
Latino Parents: Unique Preferences for Learning about Parenting
Author: DeBord, Karen; Julia T. Reguero de Atiles
Description: This article describes a study done to determine if Latino parents have unique preferences for how they would like to receive parenting education. The study concludes that parent educators should be sensitive to the cultural variations within the Latino population.
Description: This brief provides an analysis of benefit and service use among families of immigrant workers with children. Using data from the 2002 National Survey of America's Families, the authors examine safety net programs, including the earned income tax credit, cash welfare, food stamps, housing assistance, health insurance coverage, and child care.
Author: DeBord, Karen
Description: In this study, more than 1800 parents were asked to respond to a questionnaire about their parenting information needs. Preliminary findings indicate that differences exist between and among groups in how they prefer to receive parenting information. In the first phase of analysis, findings indicate that parent educators cannot meet the needs of parents as a homogeneous audience. Planned attention should be given to target parent audiences. Parents of different ethnicities vary in how they currently obtain parenting information. For example, African American parents more often than others use immediate family members; primarily their own parents as primary sources of information while Hispanic parents prefer to turn to their medical practitioner as a source of information.
Partnering for School Success: Cultural Approaches
Author: Olson, Kathleen
Description: Identifies factors essential to success in schools, and how parents can interact with schools to enhance the success of their children in schools. This document provides insight into partnerships between parents and schools in different cultures.
Raising Children in a New Country: An Illustrated Handbook
Description: This booklet was created as a tool for refugee and immigrant serving agencies, as they help newcomer parents adjust to raising children in the U.S.
School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps
Description: This Future of Children journal provides research on closing the racial and ethnic gap in school readiness among Black and Hispanic children.
Servicios para Familias Latinas en Carolina del Norte
Description: This brochure discusses various services available to Latino Families.
Author: Guion, Lisa; Samantha Chattaraj; Stephanie Sullivan Lytle
Description: The Strengthening Programs to Reach Diverse Audiences curriculum, funded by the CYFAR/CYFERnet Program, was developed by a multi-state, multi-university, multidisciplinary team to help Extension professionals and paraprofessionals who work with Children, Youth and Families At Risk (and Extension staff in general) design more effective programs to reach ethnically diverse audiences.This curriculum has served as an excellent beginning point, but it cannot and has not taught everything needed to understand how to design and implement programs with diverse audiences. Much experience, knowledge, and skills is derived from working with those groups over time.
Description: This e-newsletter is dedicated to sharing information of importance with the State and Area Agencies on Aging, members of the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations, grantees, tribal organizations, and service providers.
Understanding Racial Identity Development
Author: Gonzalez, Eduardo
Description: This workshop from CYFAR 2009 focused on enhancing understanding of adolescent racial identity development. It explores a stage model of adolescent racial identity formation; identifies the ways in which our unexamined assumptions, stereotypes and bias impact adolescent racial identity development; identifies how the messages that adolescents
receive from peers, adults, the media and society in general are internalized and affect their sense of self, and identifies strategies for supporting adolescents to honor, embrace, and value themselves.
When There is More than One Language at Home
Description: This brief fact sheet gives multi-lingual parents suggestions for helping young children learn more than one language. (Note: This resource is also available in Spanish as "Cuando se Habla más de un Idioma en el Hogar")
Working With Immigrant Children and Families: A Practice Model. Participant Guide
Description: This training provides information on working with immigrant children and families.
Working With Immigrant Children and Families: A Practice Model. Trainer's Guide
Description: This packet provides information training others on working with immigrant children and families.
Description: This brief list of educational and outreach best practices is a beginning to understanding Latino families. Educators who examine their personal perspective, then who have become aware of general population characteristics when planning and delivering programs have enhanced their outreach efforts. Extension educators can continue to grow and learn how to target programs to particular audiences while meeting the needs of families.
Working with Latino Parents in Child Care and Other Settings
Description: This article provides information on working with Latino children and parents while providing attention to details that are important to their culture.
Author: Behnke, Andrew
Description: Interviews with 19 Mexican origin fathers in two parts of the United States examined how these men describe their parenting practices and give meaning to their involvement with their children.
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A Profile of Low-Income Working Immigrant Families
Description: This article provides information on the challenges immigrant families face in the American workforce.
A Profile of the Low-Wage Immigrant Workforce
Description: This study examines the size of the low-wage immigrant labor force, as well as the educational attainment, English language ability, legal status, and gender of low-wage immigrant workers.
A Study of African American and Latino/Latina Parents in the United States
Description: This study of 685 African American parents and 639 Latino/Latina parents in the United States was conducted by Search Institute and YMCA of the USA. The report concludes that the vast majority of African American and Latino/Latina parents are working hard to raise strong, healthy, and successful children and adolescents, and most feel they are doing well as parents. Yet they are doing so in the face of multiple challenges in their communities and society. Furthermore, most have little support beyond their immediate family to help them as parents.
Biracial youth and families in therapy: Issues and interventions
Author: Milan, Stephanie; Margarent K. Keiley
Description: This study uses a nationally representative database to compare functioning in biracial youth to white adolescents and other minority adolescents. Results suggest that biracial/biethnic youth are a particularly vulnerable group in terms of self reported delinquency school problems, internalizing symptoms, and self regard.
Bridging the Cultural Divide: Building a Continuum of Support Services for Latino Families
Description: This report critically examines the needs of Latino families, the current gaps in the continuum of child welfare services and funding inequities.
Author: Roehlkepartain, Eugene; Marc Mannes; Peter C. Scales; Shenita Lewis
Description: This is the second study in an ongoing collaboration between YMCA of the USA and Search Institute around strong families and parenting. Following its 2002 counterpart which examined the resources that families have or need to raise children that thrive, the 2004 study examines the same family strengths, challenges and resources, this time among African American and Latino/ Latina families. Both studies are part of the larger Abundant Assets Alliance, which combines the resources of the YMCA of the USA, YMCA Canada, and Search Institute.
Description: This Research Brief, the second in our series on immigrant children, draws on new results from Census 2000 data to examine differences in the poverty rates between children in immigrant families and children in native-born families. The results suggest that policies and programs to combat childhood poverty, to be truly effective, should consider the full range of costs that strain family budgets.
Children of Immigrant Families
Author: Behrman, Richard
Description: This issue of "The Future of Children" focuses on the growing number of immigrant families in this country, and the challenges faced by their children as the next generation of Americans. For the most part, children of immigrants benefit from having healthy, intact families, strong work ethic and aspirations, and a cohesive community of fellow immigrants to ease their transition. But they also often face many obstacles, including poverty, discrimination, limited language skills, and lack of access to quality health care and education resources. Articles in the journal include demographic changes, economic trends, services needed by children of immigrant families, and recommendations based on these research findings.
Author: Olsen, Charlotte
Description: Addressing the needs of Latino/Hispanic couples and families in the United States requires Extension and family life educators to be knowledgeable about the cultural context in which the families live and the research that has been done on successful programming for Latino/Hispanic audiences. Implications for delivering Latino/Hispanic Extension and family life education within a cultural context based on current research are shared.
Author: O'Connor, Cailin; Siobhan M. Cooney; Stephen A. Smith
Description: This article summarizes current research on cultural and ethnic diversity influence how programs vary in their effectiveness for youth and families from different cultural backgrounds, what is known and what areas are in need of more research.
Culture and Parenting: A Guide for Delivering Parenting Curriculums to Diverse Families
Author: Ontai, Lenna; Ann M. Mastergeorge; Families with Young Children Workgroup
Description: This booklet is an information guide for practitioners for delivering parenting curriculums. It provides guidance regarding the cultural sensitivity of programs and services offered to families. Cultural frameworks are described. Research and tips are provided on topics that include communication, discipline, bonding, family structures, gender roles, play, and sleeping. Checklists are provided.Â
- More about "Culture and Parenting: A Guide for Delivering Parenting Curriculums to Diverse Families"
Description: Diversitydata.org allows visitors to explore how metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. perform on a diverse range of social measures that comprise a well-rounded life experience. These data call attention to the equality of opportunity and diversity of experiences for different racial and ethnic groups in America.
Effectively Serving Low-Income Fathers of Color
Author: Behnke, Andrew
Description: This literature review employs four dynamic conditions--microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem-- underlying a socio-ecological framework to present various key factors influencing the lives low income African American and Latino fathers. The discussion includes best practices and examples of programs to guide professionals and policy makers working to better the lives of families of color.
Author: Friedlander, Myrna
Description: This article reviews the literature on racial/ethnic identity development and the available research on ethnic identification, self-esteem, and the psychological adjustment of cross-ethnically adopted children and adolescents. Implications for practice include developmental considerations, identifying children and families at risk, and recommendations for those in need of intervention.
Expanding the Latino Market Niche: Developing Capacity and Meeting Critical Needs
Author: Behnke, Andrew
Description: This article describes a statewide assessment of 97 North Carolina counties via online surveys and 12 Spanish-language focus groups. Survey respondents noted the need for bilingual staff in their county offices, and specific types of Spanish-language materials.
Fathering across the Border: Latino Fathers in Mexico and the U.S.
Author: Behnke, Andrew
Description: This qualitative study gives voice to Latino fathers’ perceptions of their roles and values in family life by analyzing data collected from 32 Latino men. The findings support the idea of “generative fathering” to describe the resiliency of Latino fathers and the contributions they make to families, communities, and future generations.
Description: This article provides information on how the challenges immigrant families face in the American workforce effects their children.
Latino Parents: Unique Preferences for Learning about Parenting
Description: In order to provide maximum benefits to the growing Latino population in the United States, parent education programs must be examined to determine whether this population has unique needs that are not served with traditional parenting program curricula and delivery methods. In this study, 760 Latino parents were asked to respond to a questionnaire about their parenting information needs. Results indicate that parents prefer to receive parenting information from friends and family (75%), doctors or nurses (71%), group speakers (65%), and books (63%). Parents with higher levels of education had a greater preference for learning from books F(3,690) = 6.5, p < .0003. Topics of greatest interest included teaching responsibility to children (90%), helping children learn respect for others (89%), handling child stress (89%), helping children learn to get along with others (88%), building children's self-concept (87%), and talking with children (87%). Indications are that parent educators need to understand parents and target their programs to specific parent needs. Latino parents prefer to learn in family groupings.
Description: This brief provides an analysis of benefit and service use among families of immigrant workers with children. Using data from the 2002 National Survey of America's Families, the authors examine safety net programs, including the earned income tax credit, cash welfare, food stamps, housing assistance, health insurance coverage, and child care.
Author: DeBord, Karen
Description: In this study, more than 1800 parents were asked to respond to a questionnaire about their parenting information needs. Preliminary findings indicate that differences exist between and among groups in how they prefer to receive parenting information. In the first phase of analysis, findings indicate that parent educators cannot meet the needs of parents as a homogeneous audience. Planned attention should be given to target parent audiences. Parents of different ethnicities vary in how they currently obtain parenting information. For example, African American parents more often than others use immediate family members; primarily their own parents as primary sources of information while Hispanic parents prefer to turn to their medical practitioner as a source of information.
Promoting Healthy Parenting Practices Across Cultural Groups: A CDC Research Brief
Description: This research brief summarizes findings from a CDC study on cultural values and parenting and child rearing. The study focused on five cultural groups—African-Americans, American Indians, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and non-Hispanic Whites. It examined the ways that parents respond to children’s behavior and their views of desirable or undesirable parenting practices. Uncovering the differences and commonalities in values, normative practices, and child-rearing goals across cultural groups is an important step in developing culturally-competent and effective programs and support for parents of all cultural backgrounds.
School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps
Description: This Future of Children journal provides research on closing the racial and ethnic gap in school readiness among Black and Hispanic children.
Second-Generation Latinos Connecting to School and Work
Description: This brief examines young adult connections to school and employment (or connectedness) between the ages of 18 and 24 for children of Latino immigrants (second generation) compared with children of native-born Latinos (third generation), children of native-born non-Hispanic blacks (blacks), and children of native-born non-Hispanic whites and other race groups (whites)