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Knowledge of Parenting and of Child and Youth Development
There is extensive research linking healthy child development to effective parenting. Children thrive when parents provide not only affection, but also respectful communication and listening, consistent rules and expectations, and safe opportunities that promote independence. Successful parenting fosters psychological adjustment, helps children succeed in school, encourages curiosity about the world, and motivates children to achieve.
2008 Parent Resource Booklet: Raise the Leaders of Tomorrow (PDF - 5930 KB)
Prevent Child Abuse Florida, Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida, & Florida Department of Children and Families (2008)
Helps parents learn more about their child's changing needs and how to handle the challenges of parenting in today's society. Also available in Spanish (PDF - 7220 KB).
Best Practices for Parent Education Programs Seeking to Prevent Child Abuse (PDF - 94 KB)
North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension Service (2003)
Discusses strategies parent education programs can use to reduce the risk of child abuse, including focusing on multiple protective factors and working with parents over a long period of time.
Can Changing Parental Knowledge, Dysfunctional Expectations and Attributions, and Emotion Regulation Improve Outcomes for Children? (PDF - 243 KB)
Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development (2005)
In Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development
Examines the conceptual and empirical basis for strategies for improving child outcomes, such as increasing parents' knowledge of development norms, reducing age-inappropriate expectations or dysfunctional attributions, and increasing parents' capacity to regulate their own emotions.
Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development
Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development
Covers over 30 topics related to the psychosocial development of the child, from conception to age 5, and presents the most up-to-date scientific knowledge.
Learn the Signs, Act Early
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
Lists developmental milestones for children from birth to 5 years to help parents measure their child's growth. Includes interactive tools for parents, fact sheets on developmental disabilities, and public awareness resources for health-care and childcare providers.
Parent Education
Successful parent education programs help parents acquire and internalize parenting and problem-solving skills necessary to build a healthy family. This issue brief provides an overview of research regarding key characteristics and training strategies of successful parent education programs. Information about selected evidence-based and evidence-informed programs is also provided.
The Parenting Imperative: Investing in Parents so Children and Youth Succeed (PDF - 585 KB)
National Human Services Assembly (2007)
Helps policymakers, practitioners, and citizen groups understand what a parenting success strategy is and how to create conditions in communities to strengthen families.
Protect Kids, Reduce Crime, Save Money: Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect in Oregon: A Report (PDF - 239 KB)
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Oregon (2004)
Provides evidence that at-risk children whose parents did not participate in a high-quality in-home parent coaching program were five times more likely to be abused or neglected than the at-risk children whose parents received coaching.
What Grown-Ups Understand About Child Development: A National Benchmark Survey (PDF - 211 KB)
CIVITAS Initiative, ZERO TO THREE, BRIO Corporation, & DYG, Inc. (2000)
This survey measured the level of accurate knowledge American adults have about child development issues—with particular emphasis on the intellectual, emotional, and social development of young children (ages 0-6 years).
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