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Cultural Competence in Prevention Services

Resources addressing the role of cultural values in parenting practices and ways to improve cultural competence in prevention services when working with diverse families.

Introduction to Cultural Competence: A Training Tool FRIENDS National Resource Center For Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (2006) Explains strategies for assessing cultural competency and improving the ethnic and linguistic responsiveness of family support programs. Promoting Healthy Parenting Practices Across Cultural Groups: A CDC Research Brief Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2008) Examines the ways that parents from five different cultural groups respond to children's behavior and their views of desirable or undesirable parenting practices. The study's results may help parenting programs develop more culturally-competent support services for parents. Culture and Parenting: A Guide for Delivering Parenting Curriculums to Diverse Families (PDF - 289 KB) University of California Cooperative Extension (2006) A guide for practitioners on how to evaluate the cultural sensitivity of programs and services and how to make their parenting program more culturally sensitive. Raising Children in a New Country: A Toolkit for Working With Newcomer Parents (PDF - 387 KB) Bridging Refugee Youth & Children's Services (2005) Includes useful resources on effective ways to support refugee families settling in a new country and coping with parenting issues in a new cultural context.

Children and Parents of Color
Diller (2007)
In Cultural Diversity: A Primer for the Human Services (3rd ed.)
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Explores issues of child development and parenting that are affected by race and culture. Includes activities for promoting self-awareness in social workers.

Culturally Competent Strategies for Strengthening Families [Teleconference]
FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (2006)
Features presentations focused on definitions of cultural competence, intervention strategies, and specifics in working with Native American families and migrant populations.

Differential Predictors of African-American and Hispanic Parent Retention in a Family-Focused Preventive Intervention
Coatsworth, Duncan, Pantin, & Szapocznik
Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies, 55, 2006
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Examines predictors of retention for African-American and Hispanic parent participants in a family-focused preventive intervention and discusses strategies for improving retention of minority families.

Grants to Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and Migrant Programs for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Programs
Children's Bureau Discretionary Grant Cluster
Presents site visit reports from programs funded to provide financial support to selected Tribes, Tribal organizations, and migrant programs that offer child abuse prevention programs in their communities.

New Beginnings: A Guide to Designing Parenting Programs for Refugee and Immigrant Parents (PDF - 2860 KB)
Scheinfeld (1993)
Aids in the design of parent education courses for refugee and immigrant parents, especially those who are having problems with their children.

Parenting and the Process of Migration: Possibilities Within South Asian Families
Deepak
Child Welfare, 84(5), 2005
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Considers the way the experience of migration shapes parenting and family life as well as the wide range of coping responses within families.

Parenting Practices Among Dominican and Puerto Rican Mothers
Guilamo-Ramos, Dittus, Jaccard, Johnsson, Bouris, & Acosta
Social Work: A Journal of the National Association of Social Workers, 52(1), 2007
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Presents descriptions of Hispanic parenting practices in an urban context and considers implications for culturally competent social work practice with Hispanic adolescents and their families.

Power and Parenting Assessments: The Intersecting Levels of Culture, Race, Class, and Gender
Singh & Clarke
Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 11(1), 2006
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Addresses the dilemmas that exist for therapists and other professionals when carrying out cross-cultural assessments of parenting, family life, and mental health.

Refugees and the U.S. Child Welfare System: Background Information for Service Providers (PDF - 324 KB)
Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services (2006)
A practical resource for refugee resettlement staff to learn more about the child welfare system and how child welfare service providers can increase partnerships with refugee resettlement staff to improve services to children and families.

Targeted Resources for Educators and Parents
Bridging Refugee Youth & Children's Services
Provides a list of culturally sensitive materials for parents.

Voices of Preventive Services: Perspectives of Clients and Workers (PDF - 123 KB)
Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service & Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. (2007)
Uses interviews of Hispanic families' and their workers' experience with preventive services to derive 11 recommendations for developing and implementing more culturally and linguistically competent preventive services.

Young, Wounded, and Black: the Maltreatment of African-American Children in the Early Years
Harden & Nzinga-Johnson (2006)
In Interpersonal Violence in the African-American Community: Evidence-Based Prevention and Treatment Practices
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Identifies strategies to prevent the maltreatment of young African-American children and their entry into the child welfare system.

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Updated on September 18, 2008