The first five years of life have a significant effect on children's development and learning and parents play the most important role during this time. Parenting education and support are key to raising successful children, creating confident parents and building strong families and communities. Partners in Parenting promotes positive parenting and child health and development, thereby preventing child abuse and other poor childhood outcomes. Recent research shows that parents of young children who received a parent training program or attended parenting workshops improved their parenting skills (Golan, Spiker & Sumi, 2005; Hodnett et al., 2009).
Partners in Parenting offers many educational programs, workshops and resources primarily for parents with children 3-5 years of age to support healthy child development, school readiness skills and positive parent-child interaction. Several programs, workshops and resources are also for families with children ages 0-18.
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Programs:
- Little Books & Little Cooks Program is a national award winning program (from the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences) to address parenting and nutrition information. The program teaches both parents and their young children (ages 3-5) important milestones of early learning and literacy, school readiness and good nutrition through a six week program.
- Fun to Play for Preschoolers Program encourages positive-parent child interaction and learning through creative play in a six week program series. It also promotes children’s school readiness skills and introduces the Nevada Pre-Kindergarten standards.
- Let's Discover STEM Program is a family engagement program aimed at parents and young children (ages 3-5) together around simple, fun Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) activities. Interest, knowledge and skills in STEM begin before kindergarten and early exposure (either in school or at home) supports children's overall academic growth.
- Everyday SEL and YOU is a family engagement program for families with children ages 3-5. It focuses on enhancing young children's social emotional learning (SEL) while also building school readiness skills through engaging SEL activities, interactive book reading and family-centered support.
- Kinship Families is a family support program for caregivers of children (ages 0-18) in out-of-home placement. Currently, we offer an informational website using our 100+ page resource guide Raising Your Relative's Kids: How to Find Help. The guide is also available in print and on CD, including a Spanish version.
- Exploring Safety: A program for families with young children is designed to improve awareness of important child safety issues and to increase parenting knowledge. During each weekly class families (with children ages 0-5) engage in a variety of hands-on activities related to safety.
- Positive Connections for Parents & Teenagers is a four week educational series for parents with adolescents designed to help understand teen behavior and increase parenting knowledge.
- Digital Parenting Program connects with parents using digital media to provide parenting information as well as offers an opportunity for early care and education staff to easily and effectively communicate with families beyond the classroom. The digital library offers access to parenting messages that allows parents to engage in their child's development and learning, thus creating a healthy atmosphere to establish positive early childhood parenting.
