How environment influences development
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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.
Description: This NEPEF module addresses BUILD. To BUILD relationships with other professionals working with children and families may be one of the most effective ways to increase parenting options and resources. Building networks and partnerships that support children, parents, and families at local and state levels and sometimes at regional, national, or international levels will ultimately BUILD the field of parenting education. While many of these affiliations are informal in nature, membership in professional associations or organizations will provide critical linkages with others working toward similar goals.
Description: This NEPEF module addresses DEVELOP. DEVELOP is the process of creating a parenting education program before and after actual program delivery. The process includes all elements of the program development process for adult education in community-based settings, from need assessments through evaluation.
Description: This NEPEF module addresses EDUCATE. EDUCATE is the process of building relationships with participants to help them more effectively solve problems, resolve conflicts, set goals, and gain knowledge and skills to guide and nurture their child(ren). EDUCATE involves knowing and using a variety of effective teaching strategies, skills, techniques, and methods. It includes adapting these teaching tools to meet specific learner needs.
Description: This NEPEF module addresses EMBRACE. EMBRACE means recognizing, respecting, and responding to ethnic and cultural diversity, different family forms, and multiple environmental contexts of families raising children. EMBRACE also means reaching out to parents and caregivers who differ in preferred communication and learning approaches, sexual orientation, English language proficiency, access to basic resources, and levels of literacy.
Food Insecurity and Children Living in Immigrant Families: Implications for Growth and Development
Author: Greder, Kimberly (7 more by this author)
Description: Many families today are experiencing a daily struggle to provide food for their children. This is particularly true for families living in poverty and families who have immigrated to the United States. Food security is especially important for children because their nutrition impacts not only their current health, but also their future health and well-being. This online Workshop explores the impact of food insecurity on children living in immigrant families. Kimberly Greder, Extension Family Life Specialist and Associate Professor at Iowa State University, talks about her experience working with families living in poverty, and her research on the health and well-being of Latino immigrant families, particularly in rural communities.
Description: This NEPEF module addresses FRAME. FRAME includes the philosophies, perspectives, theories, frameworks, paradigms, schools of thought, worldviews, and models to guide parenting professionals in designing programs of education and in making recommendations for children, parents, and families. Many different frameworks are used by parenting educators to understand parent-child relationships.
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 Parent Education Model (NEPEM)
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author); Judy Myers-Walls; Wally Goddard; Dot Cudaback
Description: The National Extension Parent Education Model outlines essential practices that help children of all ages grow and thrive. NEPEM is a list of 29 critical parenting practices organized into six themes. Together, these practices identified issues that Extension professionals across the entire United States could agree were important.
Pathway to Latina/o Student Success: Programs and Practices that Make a Difference
Author: Cox, Ron (1 more by this author)
Description: Since Latina/os are the fastest growing minority group in the U.S., and Latina/o youth drop out at higher rates than do youth from other ethnic groups, there is a high probability that these depressing statistics will only get worse if nothing is done to curb this trend. Currently, Latina/os represent approximately 20% of the K-12 population. However, some estimates suggest that by the year 2050 Latina/o youth will represent 50% of the U.S. K-12 population. Dropout has enormous implications for the U.S. at every level. It reduces U.S. ability to be competitive in the Global market, increases the costs of social services, reduces tax revenues, extends the cycle of poverty to future generations, and increases human suffering.
Description: Dr. Francesca Adler-Baeder presented a keynote address at CYFAR 2009. Her talk addressed her extensive research background on families under stress and children's experiences in diverse family types as well as practical experience working with a broad spectrum of families, engages us in ways to better understand and empower families under stress to nurture their children. She provides practical applications, discussing the systems approach used in a statewide initiative in which practitioners and researchers have built real partnerships for effecting positive change.
– 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.
National Extension Parent Education Model (NEPEM)
Author: Smith, Charles (28 more by this author); Judy Myers-Walls; Wally Goddard; Dot Cudaback
Description: The National Extension Parent Education Model outlines essential practices that help children of all ages grow and thrive. NEPEM is a list of 29 critical parenting practices organized into six themes. Together, these practices identified issues that Extension professionals across the entire United States could agree were important.
National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework: Frame
Description: This is a training module based on the priority practice of Frame from the National Extension Parenting Educators' Framework.
Description: This is one the of self-study units online linked with the National Extension Parenting Educator Framework (NEPEF). The modules were written by state specialists and include a PowerPoint presentation, handouts, and a transcript of the narration on the ppt, handouts and assignments.