Nurturing Skills for Families is an innovative model of the Nurturing Programs that is designed to provide flexibility to meet the needs of families with children ranging in age from birth to 11 years old.
The Lesson Guide for Parents contains over 80 individual lessons presented in 18 competency areas.
Core competency lessons form the basic structure of the program. Additional supplemental lessons allow parent educators to tailor the program to the needs of the group or family.
Preventable? YES!
Safe, stable and nurturing relationships and environments are essential to preventing child maltreatment and to assuring that all children can reach their full potential.
In the Journal of Adolescent Health, a special issue has shed light on the importance of safe, stable nurturing relationship between parents and other adults in preventing child maltreatment:
“Using prospective longitudinal data, we demonstrate support both for the cycle of maltreatment hypothesis and for the important role that safe, stable, and nurturing relations... Read More 
The Nurturing Programme is based on the idea that we can enhance parents' skills to improve family relationships and parents' emotional health, as well as the emotional health and development of their children.
Based upon the Four Constructs illustrated below, it is a cognitive relational programme, focusing mostly on helping parents understand thoughts, feelings, and emotions (of both parents and children) and on the quality of relationships between parents and children... Read the Entire Article
Spanish Translations Now Available on AssessingParenting.com
The Spanish AAPI, NSCS and PARTI inventories, scoring profiles, and response interpretations are now all ready for administration.
The functional purpose of assessment is to gather information for decision makers. Families, professionals in the helping fields, agency administrators and funding sources are typical decision makers that rely on information to assist them in their decision making.
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http://www.nurturingprogramresearch.com
The Nurturing Programs are Evidence-Based, Trauma-Informed programs that involve the entire family. The Nurturing Program Research web site has been created to support your interest in knowing and understanding the decades of research that support the effectiveness of the Nurturing Programs.
The Nurturing Parenting Programs are a family-centered trauma-informed initiative designed to build nurturing parenting skills as an alternative to abusive and neglecting parenting and child-rearing practices.
The long term goals are to prevent recidivism in families receiving social services, lower the rate of multi-parent teenage pregnancies, reduce the rate of juvenile delinquency and alcohol abuse, and stop the intergenerational cycle of child abuse by teaching positive parenting behaviors.
Seven things you should know about Nurturing Parenting Programs...
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Facilitator Training and Seminar Workshops are a generic three-day workshop that teaches the philosophy of Nurturing Parenting and how to implement and facilitate the Nurturing Parenting Programs.
Trainings fill quickly so register early! To attend or if you need assistance regarding a Nurturing Parenting Programs Facilitator Training and Seminar Workshop or Training with Dr. Stephen J. Bavolek contact the Family Nurturing Center: FNC@NurturingParenting.com or Phone: 262.652.6501.
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Blend Nurturing Parenting with the uniqueness of LGBT Families. Six Sessions that Empower Parents and Professionals.
Major Goals for Teaching and Understanding the Parenting Traditions of LGBT Families are to help LGBT parents connect with each other and reconnect with themselves and their children for a meaningful progression to equity, dignity, and respect in a society that often strays from its commitment to establish equality for all people.
To help professionals advance the development of LGBT par... Read More
To Be Released July 27, 2016 (English versions available at this time)
Plus updated demographic questions for AAPI 2.1 and NSCS 3.0
The six new NSCS inventories include: Parents & their Children Birth to Five Teen Parents/Young Parents & their Families Families in Nurturing Skills Programs. Prenatal Families Parents & their Adolescents Parents & their School-Age Children
The AAPI 2.1 version consists of an updated demographic sheet only. None of the 40 items on Forms A or B have been changed. Click here to view the updated AAPI... Read More
Blend Nurturing Parenting with the uniqueness of LGBT Families
Six Sessions that Empower Parents and Professionals.
Major Goals for Teaching and Understanding the Parenting Traditions of LGBT Families are to help LGBT parents connect with each other and reconnect with themselves and their children for a meaningful progression to equity, dignity, and respect in a society that often strays from its commitment to establish equality for all people.
To help professionals advance the development of LGBT parenting skills by integrating contemporary con... Read More
Family-centered trauma-informed initiative
The Nurturing Parenting Programs are a family-centered trauma-informed initiative designed to build nurturing parenting skills as an alternative to abusive and neglecting parenting and child-rearing practices.
The long term goals are to prevent recidivism in families receiving social services, lower the rate of multi-parent teenage pregnancies, reduce the rate of juvenile delinquency and alcohol abuse, and stop the intergenerational cycle of child abuse by teaching positive parenting behaviors.
Developmentally Informed Child and Family Interventions
IB3 is now in year 3 of the demonstration. We appreciate another opportunity to review growth and progress and to enumerate ongoing challenges with the waiver implementation.
This report provides a comprehensive review of implementation activities across each year of the demonstration in the evaluation section of this report. As we end this reporting period, there are currently 1,255 children referred to the demonstration and there is an even distribution of those cases across intervention and compari... Read More
Family Links delivers innovative, high quality training in the Nurturing Programme to health and social care services, third sector organisations, schools and universities.
The UK’s leading emotional health charity, Family Links, has announced a new partnership with Canterbury Christ Church University to offer the UK’s first Postgraduate Certificate in Social and Emotional Learning.
Si... Read More
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Birth and Beyond AmeriCorps study from 2013 to 2015 utilizes quasi-experimental research design to measure pre-post impact of the Nurturing Parenting Program with longitudinal follow-up data.
The Nurturing Parenting Program utilized was primarily Parents and their Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers... Read More
The Oregon's IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project assesses two innovative service models for families in the child welfare system:
1. Relationship Based Visitation (RBV)... Read More
Do you have Research Findings, Studies or Articles pertaining to the Nurturing Parenting Programs?
Please send them here: FDR@NurturingParenting.com
Nurturing Parenting Programs have over 35 years of effectiveness. Numerous Research Findings, Studies and Articles are available here. Family Development Resources has been providing cost-effective, validated approaches to help treat and prevent child abuse and neglect for over 35 years.
Families learn new attitudes and skills that reduce dysfunction in families, with follow-up studies indicating lo... Read More
Welcome to the world of Nurturing Parenting
Our vision is to cultivate a culture of nurturing through the implementation of community-based, family focused education in the philosophy and practices of nurturing.
Education in nurturing is a proven philosophy and program that can be taught and practiced in our families, in our schools, in our businesses, in our places of worship and in all the branches and levels of governments worldwide... Learn More
1. Thirty Nurturing Programs: Select the Right Program for your Families
Family Development is committed to meeting the unique needs of families. To this end, approximately 30 programs or program models are available that are designed to meet the family’s educational learning styles and abilities; the family’s culture and language; the ages of the children as well as the ages of the parents. The first step in implementing the Nurturing Parenting Programs is to select the right program(s) for the families you are serving.
2. Nurturing Programs: T... Read More
What is very unique about the Nurturing Programs is the foundation of the teachings is based on the known practices of child maltreatment:
Inappropriate Expectations, Parental lack of Empathy, Strong Belief in the use of Corporal Punishment, Reversing Parent-Child Roles; and Oppressing Children's Power and Independence.
The Nurturing Programs are family-centered trauma-informed initiative based programs that, with partnership with other agencies, can work at changing all the family patterns that are contributing to maltreatment, including mental health issu... Read More
The Nurturing Parenting Programs are designed for the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect.
To meet the specific needs of families, programs have been identified according to the standard levels of prevention: Primary, Secondary (intervention) and Tertiary (treatment).
Primary Prevention-Education Programs are designed to empower individuals and families with new knowledge and skills.
Secondary Prevention-Intervention Programs are designed for at-risk youth, teen parents & families exp... Read More
The Nurturing Parenting Programs are trauma informed, family-based programs designed for the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect.
As a family, parents and their children learn positive and caring nurturing skills.
The Nurturing Parenting Programs are family-based prevention and intervention programs designed to develop nurturing parenting practices. The program is competency-based.
Each group- and home-based session has stated competencies designed to measure when parents have acquired a new understanding and demonstrate new skills th... Read More
Training aimed at preventing abuse, reducing number of children coming into foster care
In an effort to prevent more children from coming into the state foster care system, the Arkansas Department of Human Services Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is launching a program in March that teaches the fundamentals of becoming a more nurturing parent.
The program will be used to improve the parenting skills of those families who have already come into contact with child welfare system, but are not under court supervision ...Read More
The Nurturing Program for Young Parents and Their Families is referred to as a competency-based program.
Each lesson has identified competencies the parents need to learn in order for their parenting practices to improve.
Parents attend 16 group sessions each lasting 2 1/2 hours. Families can also receive individual home/parent sessions between the group sessions to ensure the knowledge and skills presented in the group sessions are being implemented in home...Learn More
Family Development Resources has been providing cost-effective, validated approaches to help treat and prevent child abuse and neglect for over 30 years.
Please read: "History and Development of the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory and the Nurturing Parenting Programs"
Families learn new skills and attitudes that reduce dysfunction in families, with follow-up studies indicating low rates of recidivism.
The Nurturing Programs® have and will continue to make a significant contribution to the ove... Read More
Since 1983, over 2 million families have participated in the Nurturing Parenting Programs.
Family Development is seeking published articles or unpublished research reports regarding the effectiveness of the Nurturing Programs.
The articles and reports may be posted on our web site or submitted as additional evidence to national agencies who rate evidence based parenting programs.
In addition, FDR is seeking agencies who are currently engaged in or interested participating in studies utilizing control group or randomized control group research designs. Material... Read More
Read, Touch, Talk and Play
Increase the feelings of closeness between you and your children and help your child’s brain grow. We call that closeness “bonding and attachment.”
Bonding means the intense feelings of caring and love between a mom and her baby. Mother-child bonding begins upon conception and carries through birth and early childhood.
While bonding happens early in the parent-child relationship, attachment is an extension of the bonded closeness between a mom and her child that la... Read More
