presentation for asap conference
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Making the Parenting
ConnectionBetween Juvenile
Justice, Child Welfare, and Substance Abuse
Parenting
Primary responsibility
Raise and nurture
Vary in culture, language, structure
Evolving
Most vital skill for our future
Parenting Education
Good parents are made, not born
Especially valuable prenatally or when children are young, and during adolescence
Strengths-based approach
Community connections
Utilize evidence-based practice, evaluation, and professional development
Parenting in New
York StateNYS Parenting
Education Partnership
Vision
All children will grow up in nurturing families
Mission
To enhance parenting skills, knowledge, and behavior through a strong, statewide network that promotes and improves parenting education
Goals
InformationQualityParticipationFunding
Strengthening Families
Program
Parents or caregivers with
children ages 3-16
www.strengtheningfamilieprogram.org
Strengthening Families
Increase resilience and reduce risk factors for children
Designed for substance users, now widely used with any at-risk parents, this program is based on behavioral and cognitive skills training.
Includes parenting skills, children's life skills, and family life skills.
Content covered includes: academic achievement, antisocial/aggressive behavior, social and emotional learning, booster sessions, parent-child interactions, parent training, and skills development.
Strengthening Families
BVP: Promising
OJJDP: Exemplary
PPN: Screened
Celebrating Families!
Engages every member of the family, increases child and parent skills, improves family functioning and increases successful family reunification. Celebrating Families! fosters the development of healthy, fulfilled, and addiction-free individuals and families by increasing resiliency factors and decreasing risk factors.
The Celebrating Families! curriculum consists of sixteen two-hour sessions beginning with a family meal. Explores the four aspects of healthy living: physical,
psychological, social, and spiritual. Incorporates addiction/recovery concepts with healthy family
living skills. Is inclusive of all family members ages 3 to adult.
Celebrating Families!
Earlier evaluations in Santa Clara, CA and elsewhere also indicate positive impact of the curriculum on family functioning, decreasing relapse/recidivism and increasing family re-unification. For example, in one evaluation the length of stay in foster care was reduced by 50%, while in another 100% of the parents were drug free 12 months later. Typically, 70% to 75% of the families with children placed in foster care are successfully reunified after completing the curriculum.
Celebrating Families! was submitted to SAMHSA’s National Registry of Effective Programs and Practices (NREPP) in 2007, has passed two levels of review and is awaiting a final determination.
Erickson’s Childhood
Developmental Stages
Stage Basic Conflict
Infancy (birth to 18 months) Trust vs. Mistrust
Early Childhood (2 to 3 years) Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
Preschool (3 to 5 years) Initiative vs. Guilt
School Age (6 to 11 years) Industry vs. Inferiority
Adolescence (12 to 18 years) Identity vs. Role Confusion
Young Adulthood (19 to 40 years)
Intimacy vs. Isolation
Middle Adulthood (40 to 65 years)
Generatively vs. Stagnation
Maturity (65 to death) Ego Integrity/Wisdom vs. Despair
Erickson’s Child Developmental Stages
10 Simple ThingsI Learned About Parenting from Being a Parent and Grandparent
10 Simple Things
Be affectionate
Tell them you love them often
Praise them (truthfully)
Encourage a child’s abilities and positive interests
Have a Family Night
10 Simple Things
Enjoy age appropriate activities
Be a good listener
Show up for them – be there – be supportive
Give plenty of direction to children when they are small and don’t ask for it, don’t give advice to adult children unless they ask for it
You can work hard to create a business enterprise but remember your child is your greatest creation
Resources
www.parentingeducationpartnership.org
www.nysfamilyresources.org