If you are interested or involved in helping parents to better prepare their young children for school, CICC can help.

CICC can assist you in bringing an exciting new one- day seminar to the parents you serve. It teaches parents and others what is important for young children to be able to do before they enter kindergarten.

Called "School Success from the Start" it provides a wide range of practical activities that parents can do at home to help their children develop the skills and attitudes needed to be successful in kindergarten...and beyond! Most of what is taught in this seminar is based on the highly acclaimed Kindergarten Survival Handbook by Dr. Allana Elovson.

CICC can send a professional leader to YOUR community, school, or workplace to conduct the seminar in either English or Spanish. The cost depends on the number of parents.

If interested, call CICC's Executive Director, Dr. Kerby T. Alvy, at (800) 325-2422 or email him at kalvy@aol.com. Indicate where you would like the seminar delivered and how many parents you expect to attend.

Click here to obtain the Kindergarten Survival Handbook

Parents often feel controlled by their children's misbehaviors because they do not know how to set limits effectively. They may pay so much attention when their children mess up that they forget to notice the cooperative and peaceful times.

CICC's Confident Parenting Program teaches parents how to pay attention to and how to increase the times when their children's behavior is good. It also teaches effective limit-setting skills so that parents will not feel victimized by their children.

Parents learn the skills of effective praising, effective ignoring, mild social disapproval, "time-out" procedures for misbehavior, and how to set up special incentive systems for motivating cooperative behavior.

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Raising African American children is an extremely difficult task. While all children progress through similiar developmental stages, African American children and their parents face special problems emanating from our country's history of racism and discrimination.

CICC's Effective Black Parenting Program teaches parenting strategies that are unique to parents of African American children, such as the Pyramid of Success for Black Children, Pride in Blackness, and Traditional Black Discipline vs. Modern Black Self-Discipline. It also teaches all of the parenting skills from the Confident Parenting Program but from an African American frame of reference and with the use of African proverbs.

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Like African American parents, Latino parents, (especially those who primarily speak Spanish) face unique challenges in raising children in the United States. CICC's Los Niņos Bien Educados Program is respectful of the traditions and customs of Latino families and is sensitive to the variety of adjustments that are made as they acculturate to life in the multi-cultural society of the United States.

Los Niņos Bien Educados teaches parenting skills within a Latino cultural frame of reference and with the use of Latino proverbs or "dichos." Parents learn effective skills and strategies for promoting and maintaining those child behaviors which are reflective of a child who is "bien educados" - well-educated in both a social and academic sense. The program can be taught in Spanish or English.

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