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– Evaluation –
Program Development for Parenting Education Interactive Program Evaluation Development Site 
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author)
Description: An interactive website with easy to follow directions on program evaluation.
– General Information –
Getting Involved in your Child’s Education
Description: This article discusses the importance of being involved in your child’s education and how to use community resources to meet the needs of their families.
– 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.
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.
National Extension Parenting Educators Framework
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 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 (59 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.
– 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.
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: Circle of Parents provides a friendly, supportive environment to discuss the successes and challenges of raising children.
Getting Our Hearts Right: Three Keys to Better Relationships
Author: Goddard, H. (29 more by this author); James Marshall, University of Arkansas
Description: This is an archived webinar (conducted February 14, 2013) that focused on three essential keys to nurture and maintain healthy relationships - especially family ones. "Getting Our Hearts Right" reviews several forms of human bias and provides steps to overcome these so that all relationships can be healthier.
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 (59 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%).
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.
Description: Provides a wide range of high quality resources for both parents and parent educators.
Program Development for Parenting Education Interactive Program Evaluation Development Site
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author)
Description: An interactive website with easy to follow directions on program evaluation.
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.
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 (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.
– Research –
Creative Solutions for Emerging Child Care Needs
Author: Hardison, Wanda
Description: This article presents the results of a progressive, educational effort that is meeting the unique needs of families through six initiatives: comprehensive training; referral line; child care data base; resource library; development of new child care; and newsletters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Understanding Family Diversity
Description: This article discusses ways in which the three guiding theories view family differences, how families differ in terms of ethnicity, race, culture, economics, gender roles, religiosity, and geographic region.