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Author(s): Child Welfare Information Gateway
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| Year Published: 2008 |
Evidence-Based and Evidence-Informed Programs
This section lists selected parent education curricula that have been included on various registries of evidence-based and evidence-informed programs. Each focuses on specific risk and protective factors. Curriculum availability will vary, and some programs require specific training for group facilitators.
The following list is by no means all-inclusive. It does not constitute an endorsement of any particular program and is provided only as a descriptive tool. For more information about these programs and the criteria used to evaluate them, visit the program website or the registries listed in the Additional Resources section of this paper.
Guiding Good Choices®
Program objectives: Give parents the skills they need to help reduce their children's risk for using alcohol and other drugs by enhancing family management and communication skills.
Target population: Parents of children ages 9-14.
Delivery setting and format: Conducted at convenient locations once per week; take-home self-study program or family workshops available.
Duration: Five 2-hour workshops.
Training resources: Workshop guide, video, family guide, and visual aids.
Phone: 800.477.4776
Website: www.channing-bete.com/prevention-programs/guiding-good-choices/
Registries that cite this program:
California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
Helping America's Youth
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Promising Practices Network
The Incredible Years©
Program objectives: Strengthen parenting competencies (monitoring, positive discipline, confidence) and support parents' involvement in children's school experiences in order to promote children's academic, social, and emotional competencies and reduce conduct problems.
Target population: Parents, teachers, and children ages 3-12 (individual curricula may be used separately or in combination).
Delivery setting and format: Conducted in a community agency, outpatient clinic, or school in groups of 12-16 parents or groups of 6 children.
Duration: The Basic Parent Training program is 12-14 weeks. The Child Training Program is 18-22 weeks. The Advanced Parent Program is a supplemental program. Basic training plus Advanced training takes 18-22 weeks.
Training resources: Program manual and staff training available.
Phone: 888.506.3562
Website: www.incredibleyears.com
Registries that cite this program:
California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
Child Trends
Helping America's Youth
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Promising Practices Network
Strengthening America's Families
Nurturing Parenting Programs®
Program objectives: Build nurturing parenting skills as an alternative to abusive and neglectful parenting and child-rearing practices, in order to prevent recidivism in families receiving social services, lower the rate of teenage pregnancies, reduce the rate of juvenile delinquency and alcohol abuse, and stop the intergenerational cycle of child abuse.
Target population: Parents with children birth to 5 years old, 5-11 years old, and 12-18 years old. Programs for school-age children 5-11 years old and teens 12-18 years old also are offered.
Delivery setting and format: Conducted in birth family homes, community agencies, departments of mental health, departments of social services, parent education programs, prisons, residential care facilities, and schools, in groups of 8-12 adults. Children meet in a separate group.
Duration: 12-48 weeks.
Training resources: Training manual available.
Phone: 828.698.7609
Website: www.nurturingparenting.com
Registries that cite this program:
California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
Helping America's Youth
Strengthening America's Families
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Program objectives: Strengthen the parent-child bond, decrease harsh and ineffective discipline-control tactics, improve child social skills and cooperation, and reduce child negative or maladaptive behaviors.
Target population: Children ages 3-6 with parent-child relationship and behavior problems. May be conducted with parents, foster parents, or other caretakers. Program adaptation available for physically abusive parents with children ages 4-12.
Delivery setting and format: Conducted in a community agency or outpatient clinic in groups of 3 or 4 families during a 90-minute session. Allows time for individual coaching of each parent-child group while the other groups observe and provide feedback.
Duration: Average number of sessions is 14, but varies from 10-20 sessions.
Training resources: 40 hours of direct training, with ongoing supervision and consultation for approximately 4-6 months; a manual is used during sessions with families.
Phone: 352.273.5239
Website: www.pcit.org
Registries that cite this program:
California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
Child Trends
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
SafeCare
Program objectives: Provide direct skill training to parents in child behavior management, activity planning, home safety, and child health care to prevent child maltreatment.
Target population: Parents with a history or risk of child neglect or abuse.
Delivery setting and format: Conducted in family homes, once per week for approximately 1.5 hours per session.
Duration: 18-20 weeks.
Training resources: Training manual available.
Phone: 404.419.4457
Website: www.marcus.org/treatment/safecare.html
Registries that cite this program:
California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
Staying Connected With Your Teen®
Program objectives: Encourage parents and teens to work together to enhance communication and family management practices and decrease conflict.
Target population: For parents of teens ages 12-16.
Delivery setting and format: Conducted at convenient locations once per week; take-home self-study program or family workshops available.
Duration: 5 weeks.
Training resources: Workshop guide, video, family guide, PowerPoint presentation, and CD; telephone advisor if necessary.
Phone: 800.477.4776
Website: www.channing-bete.com/prevention-programs/staying-connected-w-your-teen/
Registries that cite this program:
Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies
STEP (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting)
Program objectives: Help parents learn effective ways to relate to their children, how to encourage cooperative behavior in their children, and how not to reinforce unacceptable behaviors. STEP also helps parents change dysfunctional and destructive relationships with their children by offering concrete alternatives to abusive and ineffective methods of discipline and control.
Target population: Parents of children ages 0-6 and parents of teenagers.
Delivery setting and format: Conducted in adoptive homes, birth family homes, community agencies, foster homes, hospitals, outpatient clinics, residential care facilities, and schools in small discussion groups to promote better interaction.
Duration: 7 weeks.
Training resources: Training and program manuals available.
Phone: 800.328.2560
Website: www.parentingeducation.com
Registries that cite this program:
California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
Triple P-Positive Parenting Program
Program objectives: Prevent severe behavioral, emotional, and developmental problems in children by enhancing the knowledge, skills, and confidence of parents.
Target population: Parents and caregivers of children from birth through age 16.
Delivery setting and format: Conducted in adoptive homes, birth family homes, community agencies, foster homes, hospitals, outpatient clinics, residential care facilities, and schools in groups of 10-12 parents of children and adolescents from birth to age 16.
Duration: Varies depending on the type of intervention required.
Training resources: Training manual available.
Phone: 803.787.9944
Website: www.TripleP-America.com
Registries that cite this program:
California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
Child Trends
1-2-3 Magic
Program objectives: Help parents learn effective methods of controlling negative behavior, encouraging good behavior, and strengthening the child-parent relationship. The program seeks to encourage gentle but firm discipline without arguing, yelling, or spanking.
Target population: Parents, grandparents, teachers, babysitters, and caretakers working with children.
Delivery setting and format: Conducted in adoptive homes, birth family homes, community agencies, foster homes, hospitals, outpatient clinics, residential care facilities, and schools in groups of 6-25 parents of children approximately 2-12 years of age.
Duration: 1.5 hours per session for 4-8 weeks.
Training resources: Training manual available.
Phone: 630.790.9600
Website: www.parentmagic.com
Registries that cite this program:
California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
Examples and resources in this document are informational only and
do not represent an endorsement by the Children's Bureau.
This material may be freely reproduced and distributed. However, when doing so, please credit Child Welfare Information Gateway.
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