Interventions to Support Parents and Parenting: Scaling Effective Interventions Evidence is needed to: inform the creation of a system to assess monitor fidelity develop for disseminating and progress fit with needed evidence-based community toward targeted adaptations programs and needs outcomes services to the field System Community Need Adaptations Monitor Progress Findings can then be used in an ongoing way to inform the integration of evidence-based interventions into widely used service platforms. BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES 1
Recommendation Actors Actions Goal • US Departments of Health & • Form a working group to • To implement evidence- Human Services, Education, state identify points in the delivery of based strategies for and local agencies, community these services that reach large supporting parents, and to based organizations numbers of families enhance referral of parents to needed resources BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES 2
Increasing Parents’ Engagement in Programs and Services Parents’ engagement in young children’s learning can improve: Children’s Socioemotional Behavior literacy well-being Parent engagement is facilitated when providers, skilled in communication, participate in joint decision making with diverse families about their children’s education. BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES 3
Increasing Parents’ Engagement in Programs and Services Points of Consideration: Programs that prepare individuals to work with young children do not always include evidence-informed strategies for creating successful partnerships with families There is limited official guidance at the local, state, and federal levels on how to increase parent engagement, along with a lack of attention on impact of family culture and language on engagement programs BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES 4
Communicating Evidence-Based Parenting Information Key Opportunities: Awareness about parenting practices is foundational for behavior that supports children Public health campaigns are an effective low-cost way to reach large and heterogeneous groups of parents Information and communication technologies offer promising opportunities to tailor information based on needs, background and social circumstances Inequalities exist in how parenting information is generated, manipulated, and distributed among social groups, in the ability to access and take advantage of the information BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES 5
Elements of Effective Interventions View parents as equal partners Tailor interventions to specific family needs Collaborate and integrate services to support families with multiple needs Create opportunities for peer to peer support Address trauma Create culturally relevant programs Enhance efforts to involve fathers BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES 6
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Parenting Matters Supporting Parents of Children Ages 0-8 For more information visit www.nas.edu/parentingmatters BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES
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