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Families First Parenting Programs in collaboration with Wheelock College held an inaugural Parenting Education Summit entitled “Charting the Progress and Promise of Parenting Education” on May 3-5, 2007. It attracted participants from diverse and important fields including academia, community-based organizations, and the social services sector. Over a three-day period, 65 summit participants from 9 states and the UK contributed to working groups, actively exploring and addressing issues important to the validation and continued growth of our field.
The purpose of the Parenting Education Summit was to establish guidelines and goals for our profession by bringing together experts from various fields to accomplish the following:
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Discuss the extent to which parenting education is universally recognized and what can be done to strengthen it as its own academic/social services field
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Identify many of the key challenges that today’s parents and parent educators face,
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Discuss how the parenting education field can work in concert to address these issues, and
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Agree on a common “call to action” and produce a white paper to share the findings and recommendations produced at the Summit. Click here to view the white paper- "Envisioning, Energizing and
Empowering Relationships- Findings from the Parenting Education Summit".
Anastasia Galanopoulos, Claire Goss, Leslie Zients-Pucker and Katie Skoog
Barbara Cowan, Crista Martinez and Karin Fodness
Dr. Charles Nelson
Gayle Dublin, Crista Martinez and Eleonora Villegas-Reimers
Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Crista Martinez
Mary Crowley
Mary Kay Stranik, Harriet Heath, A. Rae Simpson, Linda Braun and Eleonora Villegas-Reimers
Phyllis Sonnenschein and Linda Braun
Breakout group discussion
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