This is an interactive, learner -centered workshop with opportunity for practice. Attendees will gain hands-on and practical conducting home and group-based Nurturing Programs which includes facilitating weekly sessions, how to use program materials, videos, and assessment tools, children’s and parents’ program activities.
The Nurturing Parenting Programs are a family-centered trauma-informed initiative designed to build nurturing parenting skills as an alternative to abusive and neglecting parenting and child-rearing practices.
The long-term goals are to prevent recidivism in families receiving social services, lower the rate of multi-parent teenage pregnancies, reduce the rate of juvenile delinquency and alcohol abuse, and stop the intergenerational cycle of child abuse by teaching positive parenting behaviors. See research here