TOPIC: Parenting Skills and Parenting Education

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Articles

• L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (2000). Connecting Schools, Families, and Communities. Professional School Counseling, 3(5), 298-307.
• L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (2001). Enlisting Appropriate Parental Cooperation and Involvement in Children's Mental Health Treatment. The Mental Health Desk Reference, 31, 219-224.
• H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor. Guide 7: Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement. Guidebook in series, Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools. Developed by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.

Introductory Packets

• Parent and Home Involvement in Schools
• Cultural Concerns in Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Early Development and Learning from the Perspective of Addressing Barriers
• Transitions: Turning Risks into Opportunities for Student Support

Newsletter

• Engaging the Strengths of Families, Youth, and Communities in Rebuilding Learning Supports

Practice Notes

• Involving Parents in Counseling

QuickFind

• Home Involvement in Schooling-Outcomes

Technical Aid Packets

• Guiding Parents in Helping Children Learn
• School-Based Mutual Support Groups (For Parents, Staff, Older Students)
• Welcoming Involving New Students and Families

Technical Assistance Samplers

• Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning

Training Tutorials

• Home Involvement in Schooling

General
• Does My Child Have an Emotional or Behavioral Disorder?
• Healthy Families America (HFA)
• Helping Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen
• "Helping Your Child Through Early Adolescence" a Tool for Student Success
• New Spanish publication "What does it mean to be parents"
• Understanding what children say about living with domestic violence, parental substance misuse or parental health problems

Facts and Statistics

• Efforts by Public K-8 Schools to Involve Parents in Children's Education: Do Schools and Parents Agree?
• State Fact Sheets for Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children

Parenting

• Adventures in Parenting: How responding, preventing, monitoring, mentoring, and modeling, can help you be successful parents
• Appraisals of Parenting, Parent-Child Interactions, Parenting Styles, and Children: An Annotated Bibliography
• Better Parenting While Working Full-time
• Discipline With Love
• National Extension Parent Education Model Of Critical Parenting Practices
• Navigating the Teen Years: A Parent's Handbook for Raising Health Teens
• Raising Teens: A Synthesis of Research and a Foundation for Action (2001)
• Strengthening parents' ability to provide the guidance and support that matter most in high schools

Guides

• "A Guidebook for parents of Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders" (2002 edition) Parent Advocacy Coalition for Education Rights
• "Caring for Your Teenager" (2003) American Academy of Pediatrics.
• Kids Can Cooperate: A Practical Guide to Teaching Problem Solving
• Parent Resource Guide (in English, Spanish, and Creole)
• Triple P – Positive Parenting Program

Programs

• Dialing for Help: State Telephone Hotlines as Vital Resources for Parents of Young Children (2004)
• Empowered Families, Successful Children: Early Intervention Programs that Work
• Parent Information and Resource Centers
• Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health: Strengthening Parenting and Enhancing Child Resilience (2007. SAMHSA)

Family Involvement

• Developing Family and School Partnerships
• Family Involvement in Children's Education Successful Local Approaches
• Family Support and Parent Education Programs

Studies

• Family Influences on Adolescent Mental Health
• Parent-Teen Relationships and Interactions: Far More Positive than not (2004)

Academics

• "Helping Your Child Succeed in School"

• The Center for Effective Parenting
• Common Sense Parenting
• The National Parenting Center
• Parent Education Network
• Partnership for Family Involvement in Education
• Positive Parenting
• Technical Assistance Alliance for Parent Centers
• Through the Looking Glass
• What to Expect & When to Seek Help: Bright Futures Developmental Tools for Families and Providers

• Acquainted with the Night : A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children (2004). by Paul Raeburn, New York : Broadway Books. .
• The Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers of Preteens: How to Survive & Thrive During the Tween Years. (2011). Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.
• The Educated Parent : Recent Trends in Raising Children. (2004). by Joseph D. Sclafani Westport, Conn. : Praeger Pub..

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