Center for the Improvement of Child Caring

Support Our Efforts to Promote Effective Parenting!

Being a good parent to any child -- whether an infant, toddler, school age or teenage child, or whether you are that child's biological, step, foster, adoptive or grandparent -- in all instances, being a parent is a tough and demanding job!

But any job is easier when you have had the proper training!

During the last 38 years, the nonprofit Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC) has been educating parents of all social, cultural and economic backgrounds to be the best mothers and fathers they can be.

The Center has already helped more than a million American parents to learn the most effective ways of raising children by participating in CICC's parenting classes and workshops and by obtaining and using parenting guides and handbooks.

As a result of what these parents have learned and are now doing with their children, many more children are now being parented more sensitively and more compassionately. And those children are doing better in school and getting along better with their parents, with their peers and with their teachers.

Your tax deductible donations to CICC will extend these benefits to more parents, children and communities.

Your contributions will enable more of your fellow parents to best guide their familes.

Depending on the size of your donation, you can also receive one or more parenting books for your own use or to give to family members or friends.

The types and amounts of books that your donations make you eligible to receive are indicated below. You can donate, of course, without requesting books.

Make your tax deductible donation and book choice after reading about the books below.

Then call CICC's toll free number 1 (800) 325-2422.

Tell our staff the size of your donation and the books you want. You can pay by credit card immediately. If you want to pay by check or purchase order, call us and we will bill you.

We ardently hope that you join in this national effort to make America's parents the most educated and effective in the world!

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

With warmest regards,

Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.
CICC Founder and Executive Director

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Donate $75 and get 1 book!

Donate $100 and get 2 books!

Donate $125 and get 3 books!

Donate $150 and get 4 books!

Donate $175 and get 5 books!

Donate $200 and get 6 books!

CICC Discovery Tool Book

. This practical and easy-to-use guide provides parents of young children with numerous and clear examples of what to expect from their children as they grow and develop.

It is an interactive tool where parents complete questionnaires that keep them current on how their children are developing in comparison to their age mates.

The CICC Discovery Tool also addresses every parent's concern about whether their child is O.K. and whether their child has special needs that may require professional assistance.

The New Power of Positive Parenting

This easy-to-read guidebook brings to parents 16 standards against which they can evaluate and improve how they are raising their children.

The New Power of Positive Parenting includes numerous practical examples of how best to relate to children of all ages and to how to build a relationship where children are supported in achieving their full potential. The guidelines address matters such as how best to express love and appreciation, how to set family rules, how to avoid using corporal punishment and other destructive practices, and how to manage children's use of technology and the media, and how to keep them off drugs.

The NEW Confident Parenting Handbook

Raising children can be a delight or a disaster, depending on how well parents manage the behaviors of their children and organize family life.

Every parent needs and deserves training in how best to accomplish this and how to maintain harmony in the home.

Every parent should know and use the parenting skills and strategies of this important how-to manual.

Parent
Effectiveness Training
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Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) began in 1963 as the first national parent-training program to teach parents how to communicate more effectively with kids and offer step-by-step advice for resolving family conflicts so everybody wins.

This beloved classic is the most studied, highly praised, and proven parenting program in the world. Revised and Updated 30th anniversary edition

Active Parenting Now
1.1492537313432835

This guidebook will show you:

How to build courage and character in your child
Effective, non-violent discipline skills
Why children misbehave and how to redirect them
How to deal with the issues of drugs, sexuality and violence
Natural and logical consequences
Problem-solving in families
How to hold family meetings
and much more!

STEP/Teen Program

"Many parents find the teen years the most trying times of all. Some think they have failed in the job of child rearing. Many of these parents also believe that because their teens are practically adults, parents can't influence them or improve family relationships. We believe that parents can develop rewarding relationships with their teenagers, and can help their teens become more cooperative, contributing members of the family.'

So say the well-respected authors of Parenting Teenagers, the handbook that has been used by over a half million parents who have taken the Systematic Training for Effective Parenting of Teens Program.

The Soulful Parent

The Soulful Parent: Raising Healthy, Happy and Successful African American Children brings the excitement and goodness of what the Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC)'s Effective Black Parenting Program has done for numerous parents nationwide, through stories about how they have used the teachings of the program to create happier homes and happier and healthier relationships with their children.

Their stories are accompanied by illustrations of what the program teaches, so that you too can make use of the skills and parenting ideas of the program in your relationships with your children.

Black Parent Handbook

This handbook is what parents who enroll in fifteen session Effective Black Parenting Program receive to support what the program teaches.

It begins as the program does with a positive orientation to raising African American children that is called The Pyramid of Success for Black Children.

Parents see how their goals for their children's future can best be achieved if their children develop certain characteristics, and how their modeling and teaching of certain parenting and life practices can increase their children's chances of developing the important characteristics, and, eventually, achieving the goals that parents want for their children.

Black Parenting: Strategies for Training

Designed to understand and meet the unique needs of African-American parents, Black Parenting: Strategies for Training presents a comprehensive investigation of African-American parenting issues, values and practices - and uses these findings to create new strategies for education and training parents.

Included are: a multifaceted conception of parenting functions and responsibilities, a profile of Effective Black Parenting, the unique context of black parenting, an intensive comparative study of black and white parenting images, attitudes and practices, guidelines for implementing parenting programs in Black communities, specific strategies for making programs more culturally-relevant, and a test of standard programs that employ culturally-relevant strategies.

Los Niños Bien Educados - Parent Handbook

This is the book that parents who enroll in the twelve session Los Niños Bien Educados Program receive. There are both English and Spanish versions.

Illustrated by humorous drawings of children, parents and family life, this handbook contains descriptions and instructions on how to apply all of the parenting strategies and skills that are taught in this award-winning program.

Parents learn how the value of raising children to be 'bien educados' operates in their family, and how the program is designed to help them bring out more of the behaviors of their children that are reflective of this important family value.

The Positive Parent

Raising children in the 21st Century is both parenting in the worst of times and parenting in the best of times. The Positive Parent: Raising Healthy, Happy and Successful Children, Birth - Adolescence is an essential resource for navigating the challenges and opportunities that today's families face.

Dr. Alvy shows parents how to help their children reach their full potential through the power of positive parenting.

With humor and passion, Dr. Alvy provides important skills, helpful resources, and 16 highly practical guidelines to help you become a Positive Parent. Give Children Warmth, Acceptance, and Respect

How to Raise Emotionally Healthy Children

This highly practical parent guide shows parents and teachers how to nourish emotional health at home and at school. Failure to meet the emotional needs of our children is one of the most serious and under-recognized problems facing our country.

This book enables parents to recognize and satisfy the critical emotional needs that all children have: to feel respected, to feel important, to feel accepted, to feel included, and to feel secure, and in the process, parents will have their own needs satisfied too.

It provides powerful and practical concepts and tools that enable parents, teachers, and childcare providers to interact with children and with each other in emotionally healthy ways.