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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.
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.
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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A Process for Learning About and Creating Programs for Culturally Diverse Audiences 
Author: Skogrand, Linda (2 more by this author)
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.
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
Description: The National Hispanic Heritage Month Hot Topic (September 15 to October 15) celebrates the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. The 2011 theme, “Heritage, Diversity, Integrity and Honor: The Renewed Hope of America” echoes themes important to many CYFAR Projects. To honor Hispanic Heritage Month, the CYFERnet Parent/Family Editorial Board highlighted some of the many resources for working with—and celebrating—Latino families.
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.
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: This article provides suggestions to those in cross-cultural, or multi-cultural families.
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.
Engaging Latino Families and Youth
Description: An in-depth PowerPoint presentation for teachers and educators interested in working more effectively with Latino youth and their parents.
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.
Hispanic Heritage Resources for Teachers
Description: The study of Hispanic heritage offers a chance to explore many diverse and rich cultures during Hispanic-Heritage month (September 15–October 15). This website includes lesson plans, printables, activities and references.
Issues for Immigrant Parents and Their Children
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
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.
Mexican Moms Are More Nurturing Than White Ones, Study Finds
Description: This news brief highlights a study, conducted by a research team from the University of California, Berkeley. The study finds that Mexican-origin mothers provide warm and supportive home settings, engage in fewer conflicts with spouses and exhibit evidence of stronger mental health than their white peers, despite higher poverty rates.
Minority Women's Health: African Americans
Description: This website provides information on the following common health problems found in African-American women: asthma, breast cancer, diabetes, getting health care, heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, HIV/AIDS, infant deaths, kidney disease, lupus, other cancers, overweight and obesity, pregnancy-related death, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), sickle cell anemia, smoking, stroke, tuberculosis, and uterine fibroids.
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Where to find: Translated Parenting Information
Description: This website provides links to parenting information translated in many different languages.
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Designing Nutrition Education Programs for Somali
Description: A focus group of Somali immigrants was conducted as part of a larger study of underserved communities in Minnesota. Study results indicate that Somali cultural and religious practices define family meal structure, food preparation, and food choices.
Family/Professional Partnerships Program: National Center for Cultural Competence
Description: The National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) at the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, provides national leadership and contributes to the body of knowledge on cultural and linguistic competency within systems and organizations.
Getting Them in the Door: Strategies for Recruiting Latinos to Family Life Education Programs
Description: This article shares successful recruitment strategies incorporated in a project that recruited low-income Latino parents of young children. Strategies included 1.) Knowing your audience and gaining a strong understanding of the Latino culture, 2.) Strengthening relationships with organizations already serving Latino families, and 3.) Building relationships within the Latino community.
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.
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 (4 more by this author)
Description: This article discusses why fathers count and provides a better understanding of how ethnic minority fathers matter to their children and families.
Description: The Black Youth Project began in 2003 as a national research project that examined the attitudes, resources, and culture of African American youth ages 15 to 25, exploring how these factors and others influence their decision-making, norms, and behavior in critical domains such as sex, health, and politics. The website allows visitors to access research summaries, read blogs about and by black youth, search an extensive rap database, access black youth social justice organizations, and download social justice curricula to teach.
Description: This website from Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, offers teachers and parents suggestions, games and other resources for celebrating Latinos in history.
Children of Immigrants Data Tool
Description: The Urban Institute Children of Immigrants Data Tool is an interactive tool designed to generate charts and tables with indicators on children, age 0 to 17.
Author: O'Connor, Cailin (1 more by this author); Siobhan M. Cooney; Stephen A. Small
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 article describes an information guide for practitioners for delivering parenting curricula. 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.
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Promising Practices
Description: This site from eXtension's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Community of Practice provides examples of successful educational practices and programs for reaching new audiences.
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.
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.
Description: Los padres de familia son los maestros, guías y abogados de mayor importancia para los niños. Entienda que su opinión y la de su familia son importantes. Los maestros de su hijo pueden entender mejor las necesidades de su niño y su familia si hablan con ellos. De hecho esto ayuda a los maestros a enseñar mejor a su hijo.
Description: eSaludToday.com is a bilingual, culturally relevant electronic magazine geared for the 19-39 year old (Hispanics are among the fastest growing users of smart phones and social media) who also serve as portals of information to older family members.
Description: Extensión en Español offers publications in Spanish on a host of topics, with links to other Spanish-language publication sites.
Gender Issues: Communication Differences in Interpersonal Relationships
Author: Torppa, Cynthia (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet discusses various ways gender issues influence communication and provides tips on how understanding these issues can improve relationships.
Description: This tool kit was developed with guidance from over 1,800 Hispanic parents at Parent Information and Resource Centers across the country.
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 (61 more by this author); Julia T. Reguero de Atiles
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%).
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.
Multilingual Parent Resource Sheets
Description: These fact sheets on family routines, play and promoting positive behavior are available in fourteen languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Farsi (Persian),Hindi, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Traditional Chinese, Urdu and Vietnamese.
Description: This resource page is a convenient “one-stop-shop” for educators serving Latino families. Includes parenting and youth development resources from many of the Land Grant Universities. Many resources available in Spanish.
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
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 (7 more by this author)
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.
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 (2 more by this author); Stephanie Sullivan Lytle; Samantha Chattaraj
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.
The Iluminando Program (Lighting the Way to a Better Future)
Description: Iluminando el Camino para un Futuro Mejor (Lighting the Way to a Better Future) is a domestic violence prevention program to help religious leaders and community advocates work together.
Description: The “Juntos” program provides Latino parents and youth with knowledge and resources to prevent 8-12th grade students from dropping out and to encourage families to work together to gain access to college. This experiential program is taught in either English or Spanish, bringing together partners from Extension and the community to learn how to succeed in school.
ToolKit for Hispanic Families Resources to Help Students Succeed in School
Description: This tool kit was developed with guidance from over 1,800 Hispanic parents at Parent Information and Resource Centers across the country.
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 the Pantry Is Bare: Emergency Food Assistance and Hispanic Children
Description: This site addresses the economic need among Hispanic families, the role of private food assistance in supplementing the government's nutrition safety net, and ways to increase income and reduce food insecurity.
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 html t http://www.nasdonline.org/document/1678/d001559/when-there-is-more-than-one-language-at.html and in Spanish as "Cuando se Habla más de un Idioma en el Hogar" at http://www.nasdonline.org/static_content/documents/1679/d001559s.pdf.)
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.
Working with Latino Parents in Child Care and Other Settings
Description: Working with Latino children and parents can be very satisfying, but it requires attention to details that are important to their culture. Professionals who are sensitive to the culture of Latinos will be able to work more effectively with Latino parents and will experience greater program success. This fact sheet offers tips for working effectively with Latino families.
Description: This poster explains the skills used to increase cultural competencies.
Author: Behnke, Andrew (4 more by this author)
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.
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; Shenita Lewis; Peter C. Scales; Marc Mannes
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 (1 more by this author)
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.
Children of Immigrants and Their Parents: Two Perspectives on Life in America
Description: This forum will look at how children of immigrants -- especially Mexican and Muslim youth -- are faring in American society, particularly at a time of economic distress and political polarization about immigration.
Children of Immigrants: 2008 Trends Update
Author: Fortuny, Karina (1 more by this author)
Description: This brief updates "Children of Immigrants: National and State Characteristics" which profiled children of immigrants as of 2005–06.
Description: Parent involvement programs can play an essential role in the academic success of Latino youth. This article reports the effectiveness and evaluation of two new Extension programs that help Latino parents become more involved in their youths' academics.
Author: Olsen, Charlotte (4 more by this author); Linda Skogrand
Description: Addressing the needs of Latino/Hispanic couples and families 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 for Latino/Hispanic audiences. This article shares general implications for delivering Latino/Hispanic Extension and family life education within a cultural context based on current research, regarding recruitment, location of the programming, staffing and space needs, delivery, and retention.
Author: Olsen, Charlotte (4 more by this author)
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 (1 more by this author); Siobhan M. Cooney; Stephen A. Small
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 article describes an information guide for practitioners for delivering parenting curricula. 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.
- More about "Culture and Parenting: A Guide for Delivering Parenting Curriculums to Diverse Families"
Designing Nutrition Education Programs for Somali
Description: A focus group of Somali immigrants was conducted as part of a larger study of underserved communities in Minnesota. Study results indicate that Somali cultural and religious practices define family meal structure, food preparation, and food choices.
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 (4 more by this author)
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.
Effects of Immigration on WIC and NSLP Caseloads
Description: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) have no eligibility restrictions based on the legal status of immigrants. This study reveals an increase in the number and share of immigrants and their children in WIC and NSLP between the mid-1990s and 2006.
Expanding the Latino Market Niche: Developing Capacity and Meeting Critical Needs
Author: Behnke, Andrew (4 more by this author)
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 (4 more by this author)
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.
Author: McDonald, Daniel (2 more by this author); Rachel Kranch, Nobuko Hongu
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which skills and behaviors taught during a weekly group nutrition education program were sustained three months after the end of the nutrition lessons. Participants (n=81) were recruited from adult English as a Second Language/English Language Learners classes. Intervention group participants showed significant change on eight of the eleven behavioral items measured.
Getting Them in the Door: Strategies for Recruiting Latinos to Family Life Education Programs
Description: This article shares successful recruitment strategies incorporated in a project that recruited low-income Latino parents of young children. Strategies included 1.) Knowing your audience and gaining a strong understanding of the Latino culture, 2.) Strengthening relationships with organizations already serving Latino families, and 3.) Building relationships within the Latino community.
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.
Mixed findings emerge on immigrant families' home environments
Description: This news brief highlight the findings from a new study that included more than 5,000 immigrant Latino, immigrant Asian, and native-born White mothers and their preschoolers. It sheds light on the ways in which children from immigrant families are especially vulnerable and benefit from cultural strengths, compared with the children of native-born White parents.
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
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.
Description: This study explores how socializing with peers who engage in risky behaviors (e.g., sexual behaviors, truancy, or substance use) influences academic engagement and its components (i.e., interest in school, education utility value, and academic effort). Second, the study assesses whether family cohesion buffers the relationship between socializing with these peers and academic engagement.
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)