Targeted Parenting and Caregiver Curricula

Positive Parenting in the Shelter Environment

This series has been specifically developed for parents who are temporarily living in family shelters and thus contains information on the specific challenges parents face while living in a shelter environment during a time of transition and instability. This six-part series focuses on positive approaches to discipline, giving parents tools for fostering self-esteem, strengthening parents' ability to listen to their children and understand their children's feelings, and helping parents develop confidence in their ability to parent effectively.

Positive Parenting in Recovery

This series has been specifically developed for parents who are temporarily living in residential treatment programs and thus contains information on the specific challenges parents face while living in a treatment program environment during a time of transition and instability. This eight-part series focuses on the intersection of addiction or alcoholism treatment and recovery and positive approaches to discipline, giving parents tools for fostering self-esteem, strengthening parents' ability to listen to their children and understand their children's feelings, and helping parents develop confidence in their ability to parent effectively.

Grandparents Parenting Again

This two-part series focuses on grandparents who face the challenges and rewards of raising their grandchildren. In the past decade there has been a rise in the number of grandparents who step in to raise their grandchildren either temporarily or permanently. As sole caretakers for their grandchildren, grandparents face many difficult challenges and choices and have to balance these difficulties with their love and hopes for their grandchildren’s upbringing and future. Participants will learn strategies that can help grandparents cope with the demands and stresses of their role. Grandparents will have the opportunity to discuss their parenting role, how it affects everyone in the family, and what they can do to lower their stress, feel more successful, and find meaning in parenting again. (2 session series)

Incarcerated Mothers

This ten-session series has been specifically developed for mothers who are incarcerated and trying to parent or, at times, just have a relationship with their child from behind bars. The purpose of this series is to strengthen the relationship between incarcerated mothers and their children through activities and discussion on emotion management, relationship skill-building, parenting techniques, and the power of hope, acceptance, and change. (10 sessions series)

Caregivers for Children of Incarcerated Parents

This six-session series has been developed for grandparents and other caregivers who often raise the children of incarcerated mothers. When a mother of minor children becomes incarcerated, there is a ripple effect that encompasses the woman herself and the consequences on her life; the children who experience separation from their mother; and the grandparent or other caregiver who now supports and cares for her children. This series helps caregivers learn strategies for building relationships, supporting their grandchildren through dealing with the loss of their parent, and strategies for coping with pressures and demands of caregiving. (6 session series)