The Center believes that all parents need and deserve the best possible education, training and support so they can maximize their efforts in effectively and humanely raising healthy, responsible and productive young people.

The Center delivers a wide range of effective parenting classes and seminars in cooperation with local schools, religious institutions, corporations, hospitals and clinics, and civic, community and cultural organizations. This includes the delivery of special classes and seminars for parents of infants, toddlers, elementary school and teenage children, as well as specially designed programs for specific cultural groups such as CICC's Effective Black Parenting and Los Niños Bien Educados programs.

The Center also conducts research studies on effective parenting, and evaluation studies on the effectiveness of parent training classes. In addition, it engages in research to create new parenting programs, which it then disseminates through a variety of ways.

Another major way that the Center backs the Effective Parenting Movement is through training instructors who work for local schools and institutions to deliver the parenting programs that are most appropriate for the parents, children, families and communities that they serve. As of 1999, the Center had trained over 5,000 instructors in 44 states through its instructor training workshops.

The Center's programs, and the instructors that have been trained, now play critically important roles in community efforts nationwide to strengthen and stabilize families, to enhance the welfare and development of children, and to combat such costly and tragic problems as child abuse, school failure, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, health and mental health problems, gangs, crime and violence.

The Center also sustains and helps to organize the Movement through its membership program, Partners for Effective Parenting. Individuals and organizations receive newsletters on the latest information in the parenting field, opportunities for networking, discounts on workshops and parenting books, and a certificate suitable for framing that reflects their commitment to quality and educated child rearing.

The Center also supports the Movement through its careful selection of the best parenting and parent training curricula, manuals, books, tapes and pamphlets, which it makes available through one easy-to-use publication, the award winning CICC Parent Training and Family Life Catalog.

The Center has recently consolidated all of what it has learned about helping parents and communities raise healthy and confident children into large scale Effective Parenting Campaigns for specific geographic areas. The first of these Campaigns, which have a dual focus on educating parents about the essentials of effective parenting and mobilizing all institutions (government, business, education, clergy, media, etc.) to support effective parenting, is directed at the residents of the six Southern California counties: Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, Riverside, San Diego and San Bernadino.