• Confident Parenting
• Effective Black Parenting
• Los Ninos Bien Educados

Dear Colleagues and Fellow Parents:

The 32-year-old, nonprofit Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC), is proud to announce that its three national model, parenting skill-building programs are now available to be taught as one-day seminars at any location in the nation.

Below you will learn about each of the programs and seminars, as well as the arrangements and costs for bringing them to your community.

These evidence-based programs - Confident Parenting: Survival Skill Training, Effective Black Parenting, and Los Ninos Bien Educados - are already in use in 44 states and the District of Columbia by over 2,500 organizations. They have won awards for their effectiveness and cultural relevance. They are being used for a variety of prevention and treatment purposes, depending on the missions of the organizations who bring the programs to their communities.

The programs are customarily taught by professionally trained and certified instructors who meet with groups of 10 to 20 parents for one class session a week for ten to fifteen weeks. Many parents have difficulty arranging their lives to be able to participate in such classes. So without alternative teaching formats, many parents just cannot attend and benefit.

The one-day seminar format, which is often used by businesses and professional groups, provides a more accessible option and one where large numbers of parents can participate. These educational events can be attended by as many as two hundred participants at a time.

The one-day seminars that CICC is now making available are led by professional instructors from our staff, and each participant receives a seminar guide to use while in the seminar and at home.

Below you will find outlines and schedules of what is taught in each one-day seminar. You will also find links to detailed descriptions of the content, history and evaluation of each program.

08:00-09:00
• Registration and Continental Breakfast

09:00-10:30

• The Confident Parenting Approach:
      - Learning Through Modeling
      - Learning Through Consequences
• The Family Rules Strategy

10:30-10:45

• Break

10:45-12:00

• Effective Praise
• Mild Social Disapproval

12:00-01:00

• Luncheon

01:00-02:15

• Ignoring
• Time Out from Attention

02:15-02:30

• Break

02:30-03:45

• The Point System

03:45-04:00

• Break

04:00-05:00

• Spanking and Verbal Aggression: High Risk Methods
• The Centrality of Praise and Reward
• Resources for Further Learning

Program Description A detailed description of the Confident Parenting Program, which contains information on its history, content and evaluation, is available. The description can be used for grant writing and other purposes to help you bring the program to your community.

To review this program description, click here.

Instructor Training Workshops Another way to bring the program to your community is to have people from your organization trained and certified to deliver it. To learn about CICC's parenting instructor training workshops, click here .

Program Materials You can also obtain the Instructor Kit for this program and the parent handbooks. Click here.

08:00-09:00
• Registration and Continental Breakfast

09:00-10:30

• Pyramid of Success for Black Children
• Social Learning and How Learning Occurs
• Traditional Black Discipline versus Modern Black Self-Discipline

10:30-10:45

• Break

10:45-12:00

• Chit Chat Time
• Effective Praise

12:00-01:00

• Luncheon

01:00-02:15

• Family Rules: Purpose, Examples and Importance
• Family Rules: Guidelines

02:15-02:30

• Break

02:30-03:45

• Mild Social Disapproval
• Time Out from Attention

03:45-04:00

• Break

04:00-05:00

• Avoiding the Use of Spanking
• Resources for Further Learning
• Certificates of Completion

Program Description A detailed description of the Confident Parenting Program, which contains information on its history, content and evaluation, is available. The description can be used for grant writing and other purposes to help you bring the program to your community.

To review this program description, click here.

Instructor Training Workshops Another way to bring the program to your community is to have people from your organization trained and certified to deliver it. To learn about CICC's parenting instructor training workshops, click here .

Program Materials You can also obtain the Instructor Kit for this program and the parent handbooks. Click here.

08:00-09:00
• Registration and Continental Breakfast

09:00-10:30

• What Parents Do for Children
• The Meaning of Bien and Mal Educados:
  • Specific Behaviors
  • Family Expectations

10:30-10:45

• Break

10:45-12:00

• Increasing Respectful Behaviors:
  • First You Work/Then You Play
  • Effective Praising

12:00-01:00

• Luncheon

01:00-02:15

• Decreasing Disrespectful Behaviors:
  • Mild Social Disapproval
  • How to Ignore

02:15-02:30

• Break

02:30-03:45

• Decreasing Disrespectful Behaviors:
  • Time Out from Parental Attention

03:45-04:00

• Break

04:00-05:00

• Using the Methods in Combination
• Adjustments to the U.S. Context

Program Description A detailed description of the Confident Parenting Program, which contains information on its history, content and evaluation, is available. The description can be used for grant writing and other purposes to help you bring the program to your community.

To review this program description, click here.

Instructor Training Workshops Another way to bring the program to your community is to have people from your organization trained and certified to deliver it. To learn about CICC's parenting instructor training workshops, click here .

Program Materials You can also obtain the Instructor Kit for this program and the parent handbooks. Click here.

The way the seminars are brought to you is by having one of our top professional seminar instructors travel to your area to lead the seminar for you. Before that date, we work with you to help you recruit and involve parents and others in your community who you may want to attend, like community leaders and potential funding sources for your parent education services.

This assistance is accomplished via telephone consultation and by making available Recruitment Flyers (click here for an example of a recruitment flyer) and Certificates of Attendance for those who will complete your seminar (click here for example of a certificate). We also send you a shipment of Seminar Guides to be used and given to everyone in your seminar (click here for a description of a guide).

In addition, if one of your purposes in bringing a seminar version of the programs to your area is to help in determining whether you want to have your own people trained to deliver the full program, you will receive a 10% discount on the enrollment of that person or those persons in a subsequent instructor training workshop. Departments, agencies and coalitions often have this in mind and want to see a program in action before they commit to having staff trained to deliver it. Thus, these seminars can and do serve as a sort of screening experience to see how much an organization would like to invest in these programs as part of their overall community plans and activities.

The costs for the seminars are based on having 100 participants per seminar at $40 a participant ($4000), which covers the consultation, the Seminar Guides and the instructor. You also need to pay the travel costs of the instructor (transportation, lodging and per diem).

You may want to support your seminar by having the participants pay all or a portion of an enrollment fee or by charging them for the Guides. You may also want to seek grant funding from corporations or foundations rather than use your own funds. All options are available for underwriting these fine educational events.

If you would like to bring one or more seminars to your area, write us about your desire by clicking here. Be sure to include identifying information (name, title, location, etc.) and your purposes in wanting to bring parenting seminars to your parents and communities.

Or you can call us toll free at 1 (800) 325-2422. We are located in Studio City, California.

We look forward to hearing from you and working together to help your parents and communities to be more effective in raising achieving and fine young people.

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 information 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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