Instructor Training Workshop To Learn To Deliver CICC's NEW Confident Parenting Program

Little Rock, AR - March 30-April 1, 2011

Dear Colleagues:

The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring is excited to announce an opportunity for you or your staff to become certified to deliver its NEW Confident Parenting: Survival Skill Training Program!

The NEW Confident Parenting program is the CICC skill-building program that has been shown to be effective in teaching all parents the most basic parenting skills to help in building warm and loving relationships, as well as in managing typical child rearing challenges and behavioral problems.

It is the program that was selected many years ago to represent the cognitive-behavioral approach to parenting education in a model continuing education initiative sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health.

The program itself has been used successfully with parents from all social class backgrounds and cultural groups, as well as with parents of children with special needs. The range of agencies and institutions who previously have had their staffs trained to deliver Confident Parenting include public and private schools, Head Start agencies, mental health and social service groups, as well as private consulting firms.

The NEW Confident Parenting is indeed one of the most useful and practical skill-building programs ever designed.

Now CICC is again running instructor-training workshops to help educators, practitioners and organizations incorporate the program into their community offerings.

This announcement brings attention to an upcoming instructor workshop and provides program descriptions, as well as links to the research that supports the usage of the program.

Do take advantage of this training and certification opportunity! You and the parents and children you serve will be happy you did.

Parenting strategies are general ways of understanding and observing family life and the behavior of children.

Parenting skills are specific methods that parents can use to increase their children's helpful and positive behaviors and to decrease their problematic and negative actions.

The NEW Confident Parenting Program teaches five general parenting strategies:

1. How Children Learn: Through Modeling and Through the Consequences That Follow Their Behaviors.

2. How to Pinpoint and Describe the Behaviors Parents Want to See More or Less Of

3. How to Chart Their Children's Behaviors to Eventually Learn Whether the Parenting Skills are Doing Their Job

4. How to Use Family Rules to Teach Children Appropriate Behaviors

5. How To Use the Thinking Parents Approach to Decide on What Types of Behavioral Consequences to Use With Children

The program then uses brief lectures, instructor demonstrations, parental role playing, and homework assignments to teach these basic and highly practical parenting skills:

1. Effective Praising
2. Mild Social Disapproval
3. Systematic Ignoring
4. Time Out From Attention
5. Special Incentives (The Point System)

Skill Specifics, Program History and Evaluation

Each of the skills mentioned above is described more fully in a document on the CICC website about the program that was created for individuals and organizations who are seeking grants to support their usage of the original Confident Parenting Program.

That document also presents the findings of the various research studies that have been conducted on the program over the last 20 years, as well as information on the program's history.

To learn more about the original Confident Parenting and to obtain a copy of that document, click here.

Starting with the first government recognition of evidenced-based parenting programs in the late 1980s, CICC's trio of programs (Confident Parenting, Effective Black Parenting and Los Niños Bien Educados) have been recognized and recommended. The first government recognition was by the Office of Substance Abuse Prevention (now the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention) within the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The selected programs, including CICC's trio, appeared in a publication entitled, Parent Training is Prevention: Preventing Alcohol and Other Drug Problems Among Youth in the Family (DHHS Publication No. ADM 91-1715, Printed 1991).

The most recent recognition is by the California Department of Social Services through its California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare.

This three-day training workshop is led by one of CICC's National Trainers-of-Instructors.

These extraordinarily talented and sensitive educators and psychologists learned themselves to deliver the program through one of these workshops; delivered the program with groups of parents in their home communities; received extensive training to conduct instructor training workshops; and now are employed by CICC to conduct these workshops in different cities nationwide.

The workshop itself is quite intensive and personal, and it requires participants to do homework assignments and deliver portions of the curriculum before their peers and the National Trainer. Despite or because of its intensity, and because it is such a unique experience to spend three days learning and exploring the content of the program, many consider it to be a "peak experience" that far exceeds their expectations.

During the month of March 2011, a workshop is scheduled for:

March 30-April 1, 2011
Little Rock, Arkansas
Hosting Opportunity Available

Call Barbara Oltman at 1(800) 325-2422 for more information on this workshop.

You can also e-mail her at barb@ciccparenting.org

Workshop Enrollees receive the entire Instructor Kit of training materials that are needed to conduct the complete program ( Parent Handbook, 117 Instructional Drawings, Diagrams and Charts in a PowerPoint format, DVD and Discussion Guide entitled Yelling, Threatening, Putting Down: What To Do Instead, Parent Training Today book, Getting Parents Into Programs CD and Worksheets, Video Demonstration of Praise and Mild Social Disapproval, Family Rules Cards, and Graduation Certificates) which itself is valued at $340.

The workshop enrollment fee is $695, which includes the Kit and certification to conduct the program in your community, agency or school.

Click here to enroll

The entire Instructor Kit for teaching the program can be purchased separately from the workshop, as can its individual components, such as the Parent Handbooks. Materials to teach the briefer, one-day seminar version of the program can also be obtained.

Click here to obtain the entire Instructor Kit for teaching the program version.

Click here to obtain the Parent's Handbook for the program.

Click here to purchase the Leader's Guide for the one-day seminar version of the program.

For the Parent's Guide for the one-day seminar, click here.

For the Instructional Transparencies for the seminar, click here.

Over 2,500 agencies, departments, schools, hospitals and religious institutions have sent their staffs to be trained in a CICC instructor workshop.

Click here for a State-by-State listing of institutions whose staff members have already been trained through these workshops.

CICC can bring an NEW Confident Parenting instructor training workshop to any community that would like to offer the program through its school district, social services or health departments, or through any combination of local institutions.

If a community or agency has at least 10 instructors that it would want trained from one or more of its institutions, CICC can arrange to have a national trainer travel to that community to conduct a workshop when and where they would like it to be conducted.

CICC can also arrange to have instructor training workshops in its Los Ninos Bien Educados or Effective Black Parenting programs brought to your community.

Click here to bring a workshop to your area

The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC) was founded in 1974 by Dr. Kerby T. Alvy and has grown to be one of the nation's largest and most productive nonprofit parenting and parenting education organizations. For more infomration about CICC's many programs, activities, products and services, go to www.ciccparenting.org, or call toll-free (800) 325-2422.

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