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– Evaluation –
Designing an Effective Questionnaire 
Author: Colosi, Laura (4 more by this author)
Description: This research brief provides some basic ideas on how to best write a questionnaire and capture the information needed to assess program impact.
Program Development for Parenting Education Interactive Program Evaluation Development Site
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: An interactive website with easy to follow directions on program evaluation.
– Professional Development –
A Professional Guide for Parenting Educators: The National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework
Description: Effective parenting education is dependent on the quality of the educator, the curriculum, the educational setting, and awareness of parent characteristics and needs. This article outlines the National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework (NEPEF) to guide professional development in Extension and in the field of parenting education.
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
Description: The American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) is one of the oldest professional societies in the United States. Founded in 1909, its purpose is to improve the quality and standards of individual and family life through programs that educate, influence public policy, disseminate information and publish research findings. The association's over 12,000 members work to empower individuals, strengthen families and enable communities, and include: elementary, secondary, post-secondary and extension educators and administrators; other professionals in government, business and nonprofit sectors; and students preparing for the field.
Bringing it All Together: Family and Community Engagement Policies in Action
Description: This webinar examines the different roles of federal, state, and local entities in promoting family, school, and community engagement (FSCE) policy; highlight innovative examples of systemic, integrated, and sustained FSCE in action at every level; and identify opportunities for practitioners, program staff, advocates, and education officials to weave FSCE policies into their own work.
Center for Parent Education - University of North Texas
Description: The University of North Texas Center for Parent Education provides research based information for parents, students and professionals working with parents and families
Children First, Web Site of the National PTA
Description: The National PTA is the largest volunteer child advocacy organization in the United States. A not-for-profit association of parents, educators, students, and other citizens active in their schools and communities. Provides resource links and information on professional development.
Communicating Program Value of Family Life and Parenting Education Programs to Decision Makers
Description: This article challenges Family Life Extension educators to collectively arrive at strategies to convey the value of prevention education in communities and presents two examples of ways to explain program impact.
Designing Professional Development Systems for Parenting Educators
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: This article presents a case for the professionalism of the parent educator field. The authors suggest that to develop a system for preparing competent parenting educators, it is important to analyze the functions of the parenting educator and the relationships among the various organizations within a system. These functions and relationships are discussed.
Emergence of the Professional Parenting Educator
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author); Karen DeBord
Description: This site provides information from a previously held interactive telephone training about parenting education.
Family Life Education Institute
Description: Provides professional development support and tools for family life educators and links to other resources. The Family Life Education Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Family life educators supporting pediatricians with parenting information
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: This is an article about how collaboration between Extension educators and pediatricians can benefit patients, parents, and pediatric practices, as well as family life education programs.
Graduate Programs in Parenting Education: North Carolina State University
Description: There is a jointly administered degree program between North Carolina State University’s Department of Family and Consumer Sciences and University of North Carolina at Greensboro Department of Human Development and Family Studies. It is a masters in Human Development and Family Studies with a concentration in Family Life and Parenting Education. It is 36 credit hours and parenting education content courses are listed in the elective courses.
Description: This NEPEF module addresses GROW. GROW is the process by which parenting educators become professionals and associate themselves with colleagues through professional development activities. GROW involves educators learning to know themselves and their values while building knowledge, skills, and connections as educators. GROW recognizes that the parenting educator and her/ his personal qualities are a critical part of the educational process. GROW is used to suggest career-long activities that begin with the earliest preparations for becoming a parenting educator and continue as an ongoing developmental process.
National Extension Parenting Educators Framework
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author); H. Wallace Goddard
Description: The National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework (NEPEF) builds upon the earlier effort, the National Extension Parenting Education Model (NEPEM) (Smith et al., 1994). The NEPEM model established six categories of priority practices and skills to be learned by parents and taught by parenting educators. NEPEF takes the original NEPEM categories "care for self, understand, guide, nurture, motivate, and advocate" and joins them with six more categories of practices aimed at the parenting educators alone "grow, develop, frame, embrace, build, and educate". Used in tandem, the six "content" categories (for parents) and the six "process" categories (for educators) will allow parenting educators to work most effectively with parents and children.
National Extension Parenting Educators’ Framework
Description: This website provides information for parenting educators on the National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework.
National Parenting Education Network (NEPN)
Description: The National Parenting Education Network is a national umbrella organization that encourage information sharing, professional development and networking oppportunities for the over 250,000 professionals, paraprofessionals and volunteers who serve as parent educators.
North Carolina Parenting Education Network
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: The North Carolina Parenting Education Network provides links to professional development resources and opportunities.
Author: Dunifon, Rachel (4 more by this author)
Description: The Parenting in Context Initiative, through Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, focuses on integrating extension and research activities in the area of parenting education. The website provides information on research, funding, evaluation and professional development.
Description: Five age-based (Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers, elementary, and teenagers) parenting toolkits for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqui Freedom veterans and their partners. Provider Guide also provided. Especially for reconnecting w/ their youth after deployment. Paper copies will be sent to all VA medical centers this year.
– Programming Resource –
A Professional Guide for Parenting Educators: The National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework
Description: Effective parenting education is dependent on the quality of the educator, the curriculum, the educational setting, and awareness of parent characteristics and needs. This article outlines the National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework (NEPEF) to guide professional development in Extension and in the field of parenting education.
Attachment Parenting International
Description: API promotes parenting practices that create strong, healthy emotional bonds between children and their parents. For life. Provides information on infants, toddlers, adolescents and teens.
Bringing it All Together: Family and Community Engagement Policies in Action
Description: This webinar examines the different roles of federal, state, and local entities in promoting family, school, and community engagement (FSCE) policy; highlight innovative examples of systemic, integrated, and sustained FSCE in action at every level; and identify opportunities for practitioners, program staff, advocates, and education officials to weave FSCE policies into their own work.
Communicating Program Value of Family Life and Parenting Education Programs to Decision Makers
Description: This article challenges Family Life Extension educators to collectively arrive at strategies to convey the value of prevention education in communities and presents two examples of ways to explain program impact.
Designing an Effective Questionnaire
Author: Colosi, Laura (4 more by this author)
Description: This research brief provides some basic ideas on how to best write a questionnaire and capture the information needed to assess program impact.
Author: Weigel, Dan (15 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet is geared toward helping parents prepare their children for school and to become good learners.
Author: Green, Stephen (1 more by this author)
Description: This Journal of Extension article reports on a pilot conducted in Texas on the importance of fathers taking on an active role in their children's educational development in order for their children to have greater academic success.
Parent Training Programs: Insight for Practitioners
Description: This guide from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is based on a meta-analysis of the current research literature on training programs for parents with children ages 0 to 7 years old. Through meta-analysis, researchers investigated strategies being used in many types of programs. Rather than just assessing specific programs, they focused on program components, such as content (e.g., communication skills) and delivery methods (e.g., role-playing, homework). This guide summarizes their findings.
Author: Dunifon, Rachel (4 more by this author)
Description: The Parenting in Context Initiative, through Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, focuses on integrating extension and research activities in the area of parenting education. The website provides information on research, funding, evaluation and professional development.
Description: Parenting in Context site provides information geared to parent educators on how to evaluate parent education programs, funding tips, and how to write a grant proposals.
Parenting Skills Workshop Series (PSWS)
Author: Bailey, John (1 more by this author); Sandra Wilkins; Susan Perkins
Description: This workshop manual is designed for professionals working with parents who may not learn well from text-based teaching approaches. Basic parenting skills are presented in a hands-on learning format suitable for any level of literacy. Originally designed for court-mandated parents, this workshop has proved successful with a broad audience. Ordering information provided through this site.
Parenting Skills Workshop Series (PSWS) PDF version
Author: Bailey, John (1 more by this author); Sandra Wilkins; Susan Perkins
Description: This workshop manual is designed for professionals working with parents who may not learn well from text-based teaching approaches. Basic parenting skills are presented in a hands-on learning format suitable for any level of literacy. Originally designed for court-mandated parents, this workshop has proved successful with a broad audience.
Partnering with Parents: Walking the Journey Together
Description: Partnering with Parents consists of a series of 11 interactive training modules based on principles of family centered practices and parenting education theory and research.
Program Development for Parenting Education Interactive Program Evaluation Development Site
Author: DeBord, Karen (61 more by this author)
Description: An interactive website with easy to follow directions on program evaluation.
Description: The Nurturing Parenting Programs are a family-centered initiative designed to build nurturing parenting skills as an alternative to abusive and neglecting parenting and child-rearing practices.
– Research –
Family Involvement in Elementary School Children's Education
Description: This research brief discusses the importance of family involvement during elementary school years.
Author: Green, Stephen (1 more by this author)
Description: This Journal of Extension article reports on a pilot conducted in Texas on the importance of fathers taking on an active role in their children's educational development in order for their children to have greater academic success.
Parent Training Programs: Insight for Practitioners
Description: This guide from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is based on a meta-analysis of the current research literature on training programs for parents with children ages 0 to 7 years old. Through meta-analysis, researchers investigated strategies being used in many types of programs. Rather than just assessing specific programs, they focused on program components, such as content (e.g., communication skills) and delivery methods (e.g., role-playing, homework). This guide summarizes their findings.
Author: Dunifon, Rachel (4 more by this author)
Description: The Parenting in Context Initiative, through Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, focuses on integrating extension and research activities in the area of parenting education. The website provides information on research, funding, evaluation and professional development.
Description: Parenting in Context site provides information geared to parent educators on how to evaluate parent education programs, funding tips, and how to write a grant proposals.