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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. The Nurturing Programs target all families at risk for abuse and neglect with children birth to 18 years and include primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary (treatment) programming.
The Nurturing Parenting Program (NPP) for Parents and their Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers (birth to 5 years) was developed to help families who have been identified by child welfare agencies for past child abuse and neglect or who are at high risk for child abuse and neglect.
There are two components of the program – the group base program contains 27 sessions each lasting 2.5 hours. Parents and children meet concurrently in two separate groups. Two facilitators run parents’ group; two facilitators plus two volunteers run the children’s group. Parents and children engage in a 30-minute Nurturing Time with games, songs, snacks and more.
The home base program contains 55 sessions each 90 minutes in length. Parents, children and the Home Visitor work together for 30 minutes having fun and practicing skills. Parents and the Home Visitor work together for the first hour teaching nurturing parenting ideas and techniques.
A large number of evaluations of the Parents and their Infants, Toddler and Preschoolers program have consistently demonstrated positive impacts on parenting attitudes, knowledge, beliefs and behaviours, child abuse and neglect, children’s behaviour and attitudes toward parenting and family interactions.
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