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Evidence Based Nurturing Programs
 The
Prenatal Program® is a nine-session group-based program
(each session 2 1/2 hours). Parents learn ways to bond with
their baby by examining the adjustments to being pregnant,
discussing the physical and emotional changes occurring,
strengthening the bonds between the partners, learning ways
to nurture oneself, and preparing for parenthood.
Parents
also examine their parenting attitudes, learn non-hitting
ways of discipline, practice infant massage, and develop
their empathic awareness of their needs and their infants'
needs.
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 This
is a 48-session home-based or 24-session group-based program.
Parents learn about recognizing and understanding feelings,
infant and child massage, nurturing parenting routines,
alternatives to hitting, child development, and ways to
build self-esteem and self-concept in self and children.
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Nurturing
Program for Parents and Their School-Age Children 5-11 Years®
 This
is a 15-session group-based program. Parents and children
increase their empathy, learn nurturing ways to encourage
appropriate behaviors, build self-concept and self-esteem,
and learn to have fun as a family. This program was validated
twice in each of six sites around the country with families
identified as abusive and neglecting.
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Nurturing
Program for Parents and Adolescents®
 This
is a 12-session group-based program. Families learn nurturing
communication strategies, how to recognize each other's
needs, how to understand the period of adolescence, and
ways to build their own personal power, self-esteem, and
self-concept.
Families also discuss pregnancy delay,
sex, sexuality, AIDS, suicide, and peer pressure. Parents
and teens from throughout the country participated in the
validation process.
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and Adolescents
Nurturing
Program for Teen Parents and their Children®
 A
50-session home-based or 26-session group-based program.
Teen parents learn about male and female children's brain
development, infant and child massage, developmental milestones
of growth, how to have fun with their children, nurturing
parenting routines, and ways to help children build their
self-esteem and self-concept.
Teens also learn ways to delay pregnancy,
handle peer pressure, sex, sexuality, and date rape, increase
personal power, understand stress, anger, criticism and
confrontation, and build their own positive feelings of
self. This program was validated by 12 agencies throughout
the country providing services to teen parents.
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Parents and their Families
The Nurturing Program for Parents and Their Children with Health Challenges®
 The Nurturing Program for Parents and Their Children with Health Challenges® has been designed to offer support to families as they navigate the uncharted waters of parenting when a child is born or diagnosed with a life-altering illness. It is designed to help families explore their hopes and fears, develop effective parenting techniques, enhance communication, develop strategies for facing challenges, and recognize opportunities for celebration. The goal is to develop a foundation of cooperation that will carry families through challenging times and create opportunities for growth regardless of the outcome of the illness.
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Nurturing
Skills for Families
 NEW!
50 Individual Lessons on Nurturing Parenting.
The Nurturing Skills for Families Lesson Guide for Professionals
and Parent Handbook can be used with the award-winning Nurturing
Parenting Videos from the Infant, Toddler and Preschool
and School-Age Programs.
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Nurturing Skills for Families
Nurturing Skills for Teen Parents
59 lessons taken from the internationally recognized and validated Nurturing Parenting Programs® are assembled in one Lesson Guide. Professionals teach parents of young children (birth – 5 years) and school-aged children (5 to 12 years) ways to improve their parenting skills.
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Nurturing Skills for Teen Parents
Nurturing Skills for Military Families™
 Nurturing America’s Military Families is a Nurturing Skills Parenting Program specifically designed to improve the nurturing parenting skills of parents in the military with children ages birth to 11 years old. Parents and Parent Educators work cooperatively in tailor making parenting programs that meet the assessed needs of the families. The flexibility in the structure of the Lesson Guide makes it possible for parent educators to meet the demands military families face in short notice deployments, long term deployments, changes in schedules, relocation to other bases.
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 Family Nurturing Camp is a structured therapeutic weekend camp experience designed to help families build caring, positive family life interaction patterns.
Family Nurturing Camp is an ideal supplement to parenting education programs for families experiencing or at high risk for child abuse and neglect. It is also appropriate for families who are at risk for foster care placement or returning from out-of-home placement.
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Family Nurturing Camp
 Community Based Education in Nurturing Parenting
Ten individual parenting lessons for promoting the philosophy of nurturing parenting for the primary prevention of child abuse & neglect.
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The
ABC's of Parenting - A School Based Program for Parents
and Children Entering Kindergarten
 Revised
and updated. This seven-session parenting program for
parents and children entering kindergarten offers parents
ways to increase their child's self-esteem and self-concept.
Parents and children meet in separate groups for two hours,
once weekly for seven consecutive weeks.
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(Assuring Better Children)
This is an innovative community based training program designed to increase the awareness of parents and professionals about the effects of alcohol and substance abuse on parenting and the quality of family life.
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 Families in Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery is an 18 session program designed specifically for families in recovery. It is built on the principles of relational development consisting of three factors essential for healthy relationships: authenticity, mutuality and empathy.
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This is an innovative community based training program designed to increase the awareness of parents and professionals about the effects of alcohol and substance abuse on parenting and the quality of family life.
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 Alcohol, Anger and Abuse is a five part parenting-training program addressing alcohol related family dysfunction. The sessions address the relationship between alcohol, anger and abuse; the similarities between alcohol abuse and child abuse; and the role alcohol has in incestuous family relationships, spousal violence, and emotional abuse of children.
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African-American
Families
 Enhancing
Nurturing Parenting Skills in African American Families
is a supplement to any of the Nurturing Programs. The program
has four content areas with four 1-1/2 to 2 hour activities
for a total of 32 hours of education.
African-American parents discuss difference and its place
in America, spirituality and the importance of the Black
Church, the slave experience and how it has influenced Black
parenting patterns, ways to transcend oppression, how to
teach a dual consciousness, and teaching children to access
resources.
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Christian
Parenting Program
 "Nurturing
God's Way" Parenting Program for Christian Families,
written by Sue Laney and Nancy McClure, is a parenting program
designed specifically for parents who utilize the scripture
of the Bible to guide their parenting attitudes and practices.
This cultural adaptation of the Nurturing Parenting Program®
incorporates the basic philosophy of nurturing parenting
while assisting parents in strengthening their relationship
with God, modeling Christian principles and building a nurturing
Christian family lifestyle.
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Crianza
con Cariño® (Materials in Spanish)
 Family
Development Resources is dedicated to creating parenting
programs that meet the needs of Spanish-speaking families.
Programs, videos, instructional aids and assessment tools
have been developed and normed for Hispanic families and
are available for you to purchase online.
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For Hmong
Parents and Adolescents
 This
cultural adaptation of the Nurturing Parenting Program®
for Parents and Adolescents was developed for and by Hmong
families living in the United States.
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For Hmong Parents and Adolescents
Multicultural
Parenting Education Guide
 “Understanding
Cultural Parenting Values, Traditions and Practices”
Increase your awareness, understanding and sensitivity
to the uniquenesses of some of the cultures that make up
American society. Specially written for professionals in
the helping fields. Cultures covered in this guide include:
Mexican, Puerto Rican, El Salvadoran, Hmong, Cambodian,
Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, African American,
Filipino, Hawaiian, Chilean, Laotion.
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