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New Staff Development Webinars on Parenting |
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The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring is pleased to announce the availability of several two-hour online staff development webinars for agencies, departments and schools who are involved in helping parents to be as effective as possible.
The webinars can be arranged for any time or day that is convenient for your organization, and they only require your staff to have access to computers and telephones. No travel or release time is required.
All of the webinars provide an extensive resource document that immediately links your staff to parenting books, videos, CDs , DVDs and instructional materials for numerous parenting programs.
Registrants to the webinars for specific populations are also eligible for discounts on the parenting materials for the relevant programs and for discounts on the fees to enroll in workshops to become certified to deliver the programs.
Each webinar is conducted by Dr. Kerby T. Alvy, the psychologist founder and director of the Center for the Improvement of Child Caring, and a nationally recognized authority on parenting and parent training (see resume below). Opportunities to question Dr. Alvy are part of the experience.
To explore having one or more of these webinars delivered exclusively for your organization, call CICC's toll-free number: 1 (800) 325-2242 or e-mail Dr. Alvy at kalvy@ciccparenting.org.
The cost for each webinar is $195 per registrant. A minimum of 10 registrations is required for the webinar to be exclusively for your organization.
If your organization can not meet the minimum, call or write CICC at the above number or e-mail address to explore alternatives. If you have 20 or more registrants, call to discuss a lower per registrant fee.
Some of the webinars (whose content is indicated below) provide a comprehensive overview about effective parenting and modern parenting programs, such as: |
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Reaction to Webinars
"Very informative. A lot of aha moments."
"I thought 2 hours would be FOREVER to sit, listen and watch without being in a room 'conference style.' Actually, the time went incredibly fast, and the interactive nature of the webinar kept me engaged."
"I will be setting up a program in my local school district."
"Overall it was great!"
"We will utilize the training we got today to design a parent engagement training for our parents."
"We definitely will use what we learned. The summary of the programs is necessary for our staff to be aware of."
"We will definitely forward the information learned to colleagues in the field."
"I will now be able to present new information to my director in our efforts to initiate a parenting program."
"I will share this information with our campuses so that they can expand their opportunities to increase their programs."
"We got together afterwards to discuss ways to provide parent training/education. We plan to use our regular newsletter, work with our staff to promote partnership with parents, and inform parents about the research on how important they are. "
"We may use the PowerPoint slides to design our own classes for parents."
"This was very informative. I look forward to reviewing the resources that were mentioned and the resource list that was provided. We are thinking about incorporating them into our parent involvement and parent education programs."
"We have toyed with the idea of culture specific parenting programs and our organization is now eager to follow up on the programs for parents of African American and Latino children." | |
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Helping Your Community to Raise Healthy Children Webinar
(For all groups serving children and families)
- How Society Benefits When Parents Are Effective
- What Parents Do For and On Behalf of Children
- What Constitutes Effective Parenting in Contemporary Society
- The Most Productive Pattern of Parenting
- Programs that Teach and Support the Productive Pattern, including Special Programs for Parents of Ethnic Minority Children
- Research on the Impact of Parenting Programs
- Ways to Engage Parents in Parenting Programs
- Considerations about Charging Parents for Parenting Programs
- Numerous Resources which You Can Immediately Use, including Free and Inexpensive Resources
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 Raising Proud and Capable African American Children: A Webinar on Using the Effective Black Parenting Program
(For groups serving African American children and families)
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General Parenting Strategies: Pinpointing Child Behaviors, The Thinking Parent's Approach, Family Rule Guidelines, Children's Developing Abilities, Children's Thinking Stages
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Basic Parenting Skills Taught in a Culturally Sensitive Manner Using African Proverbs: Effective Praising, Effective Verbal Confrontation, Time Out, Systematic Ignoring, Special Incentives
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| Frequently Asked Questions About Webinars |
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How does an audio conference/webinar work?
It's simple. A few minutes before the start of the webinar, you call a toll-free number in order to listen to the speaker and go to a website on your computer to view the Powerpoint. We will email you the toll-free number and all the access information as soon as we receive the list of registrants and their respective e-mail addresses.
The information your registrants will be emailed will include links to the Parenting Resources document, the webinar PowerPoint and to videos and related news and journal articles and that can be reviewed in anticipation of the webinar.
How many people can listen in per registrant e-mail address? | |
Parent Training to Help Students Succeed Webinar
(For schools and school districts) 
- How Effective Parenting Benefits Students and Schools
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What is Effective Parenting and The Job of Parenting?
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The Research-Based Productive Parenting Pattern and Programs that Teach It
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Research on Program Effectiveness
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Exemplary Programs, including for Ethnic Minority Parents
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How Programs Can Be Taught and How to Bring Them to Your Parents
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Examples of Skills Taught in Programs
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Strategies to Engage Parents
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Free and/or Inexpensive Program Resources .
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Raising Socially and Emotionally Healthy Latino-American Children: A Webinar on Using the Los Ninos Bien Educados Program
(For groups serving Latino-American children and families)
- Program Development Research Findings on Parenting World Views, Parenting Practices and the Impact of Acculturation
- The Meaning of Bien and Mal Educados
- Types of Acculturation Adjustments
- The Causes of Child Behavior and Considering the Causes Before and After You Act
- Family Role Expectations Are Like a Coin and Family Expectation Guidelines
- Basic Child Rearing Skills Taught with the Use of Spanish Proverbs (Dichos) to Nest Them in a Culturally-Affirming Context: Effective Praising and Verbal Confrontation, Time Out, Special incentives, Show and Tell, First/Then, Family Expectation Platica
- Child Abuse: Improper Parenting
- Research Results on Program Effectiveness
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 The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC) was established in 1974 and is a private, nonprofit community service, training and research corporation.
For additional information
or call 1-800-325-2422. |
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As many people as can fit in a room. Webinars provide cost-effective opportunities for professional development. Only one phone connection per registration.
Some of our staff may not be able to attend the webinar as a live event. Is there a way they can learn at another time?
Yes! We will provide a link to the entire presentation the next morning that can be accessed at any computer. Your staff can watch and listen to the presentation at a time that works for them.
My organization only pays by purchase order. Do you accept POs?
Yes! |
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Additional, Customized Staff Development Webinars
 CICC and Dr. Alvy are also prepared to work with your organization to design and deliver webinars that address parenting issues, topics and populations that are unique to your organization and to the populations you serve.
For example, if your organization would like a webinar about how you can include additional coverage of an important parenting topic in your current parenting programs, such as information on how parents can prevent substance abuse, or how parents can deal constructively with their children and teen's use of technologies like the Internet, social networking sites or iPhones and cell phones, staff development webinars on those topics can be created and delivered just for you.
Or if you want a webinar on relating to parents who have children of a specific age or stage (parents of infants, preschoolers, elementary school, middle school or high school age-children), or a webinar for parents of children with specific disorders or disabilities, such as for parents of hyperactive, autistic, depressed, or aggressive, acting out children, such webinars can be especially created and delivered for your organization.
To explore these customized webinars, contact Dr. Alvy at kalvy@ciccparenting.org or call him at 1 (800) 325-2422 |
 Dr. Kerby T. Alvy, a child psychologist, is one of the nation's most experienced and respected parenting authorities, and has been honored at the White House for his work to enhance the status and effectiveness of parents. In addition to being the Executive Director and Founder of the 35 year old, nonprofit Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC) in California, he is also the Founder and a member of the Advisory Board of the National Effective Parenting Initiative (NEPI). The goals and services of these organizations are directed at making it the birthright of every child to be raised effectively by loving and skillful parents who receive the best possible parenting education and support.
Dr. Alvy is a prolific author of books and articles on parenting, child development, and child abuse, as well as authoring and co-authoring parenting education programs and seminars. His books include Parent Training Today: A Social Necessity, one of the most comprehensive and authoritative books ever written on parent training,Black Parenting: Strategies for Training, a groundbreaking book of research on African American parenting and implications for culturally-specific parent training, The Power of Positive Parenting, a brief guide for parents that some readers see as being a "mini-bible" for parents, The CICC Discovery Tool about educating parents about child development and identifying and helping young children with special needs, and Bringing Parenting Education Into the Early Childhood Care and Education System about a model approach for making this nationwide system responsive to the education and training needs of parents. His most recent book (2008) is considered to be the "manual that should come with every child,The Positive Parent: Raising Healthy, Happy and Successful Children, Birth Through Adolescence.
The parenting education programs and seminars that Dr. Alvy has authored and co-authored include the CICC's trio of national model programs: Confident Parenting: Survival Skill Training, Effective Black Parenting and Los Niņos Bien Educados. The latter two programs have become the most widely used culturally- specific parenting skill-building programs in the United States.
His expertise as a researcher and scientist has been acknowledged through research and demonstration grants from a variety of federal government agencies and from his being selected to serve on scientific review committees. Dr. Alvy has been a Principal Investigator on research projects sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, as well as being Principal Investigator on the research project funded by the First 5 LA Proposition 10 Commission to further validate The CICC Discovery Tool.
Dr. Alvy has also distinguished himself as a creator and director of numerous community service projects to increase parental effectiveness and reduce child abuse, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, and school failure and gang involvement. Projects that he has designed and directed have gained the support of various state and local funding bodies, and the support of over 75 private foundations and corporations, including the Ford Foundation, AT&T, Xerox, Annenberg, Mattel, Verizon and Hearst.
Dr. Alvy was previously affiliated with Kedren Community Mental Health Center in the Watts area of Los Angeles for seven years where he served as Director of Children's Services, and with the Los Angeles Campus of the California School of Professional Psychology for 17 years where he was a Professor and Dean for Academic Affairs. He has also taught at other institutions, including UCLA, the CaliforniaStateUniversity at Los Angeles, and the StateUniversity at Albany.
Dr. Alvy has received numerous awards for his and CICC's accomplishments in improving the quality of child rearing in America, including being honored in the White House in 1995 as part of the First National Parent's Day Celebration, receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1997 from the State University of New York at Albany, where he received his doctorate in Psychology, and earning the "Illuminating the Way to the New Millennium Award" from the Parenting Coalition International and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention in 1999.
Dr. Alvy continues to be an advocate for children's rights before government and civic bodies, and to appear on television and radio programs on child, family and parent training issues. He also continues to serve as a consultant and speaker/guest on these matters to community groups, governmental agencies, corporations, news departments and film and television companies.
He draws inspiration and support from his wife, Mary, a special education and kindergarten teacher, and their two daughters, who both graduated from the Univeristy of California at Berkeley and were Phi Beta Kappa Students. | |
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