Type 1 – Parenting

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PARENTING

• Housing, health, nutrition, clothing, safety
• Parenting skills for all age levels
• Home conditions that support children as students at all grade levels
• Information and activities to help schools understand children and families

• Workshops, videotapes, computerized phone messages on parenting and child development at each age and grade level
• Parent education and other courses or training for parents (e.g., GED, family literacy, college or training programs)
• Family support programs to assist families with health, nutrition, and parenting, including clothing swap shops, food co-ops, parent-to-parent groups
• Home visiting programs or neighborhood meetings to help families understand schools and to help schools understand families
• Annual survey for families to share information about their children’s goals, strengths, and special talents

• Provide information to all families who want it or who need it, not only to the few who attend workshops or meetings at the school building
• Enable families to share information with schools about background, culture, talents, goals, and needs

• “Workshop” is not only a meeting on a topic held at the school building, but also the content of that meeting to be viewed, heard, or read at convenient times and varied locations.

• Self-confidence about parenting as children proceed through school
• Knowledge of child and adolescent development

• Understanding of families’ goals and concerns for children
• Respect for families’ strengths and efforts