CICC can send one of its top professionals to any community in the United States or abroad to conduct a One-Day Parenting Skill-Building Seminar in any of the award-winning CICC programs, Confident Parenting, Effective Black Parenting, and Los Niños Bien Educados.

These exciting full day training events are for anywhere from 25 to 250 parents. These parents not only receive excellent training from the CICC professional seminar leader, they also receive a Parent's Handbook to use while in the seminar and to take home with them.

Following is a typical schedule for the one-day seminar in the Confident Parenting Program:

Confident Parenting
8:00 - 9:00am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30am	The Confident Parenting Approach The Family Rules Approach The Thinking Parent's Strategy
10:30 - 10:45am	Break
10:45 - 12:00pm	Effective Praise,  Mild Social Disapproval
12:00 - 1:00pm	Luncheon
1:00 - 2:15pm	Ignoring,  Time Out From Attention
2:15 - 2:30pm	Break
2:30 - 3:45pm	Special Incentives: The Point System
3:45 - 4:00pm	Break
4:00 - 5:00pm	Using the Methods in Combination Spanking: A High Risk Method Resources for Further Learning

The costs of a seminar are based on the number of parents to be trained, plus paying for the travel expenses for the seminar leader and the shipping costs of the Parent's Handbooks.

Other costs that a group who wants to contract with CICC to bring a seminar to their community needs to cover are those for food, childcare, meeting space and recruitment of participants.

If your group, organization, school, or company would like to contract with CICC to bring a parenting skill-building seminar to your community, please e-mail Dr. Alvy, CICC's founder and executive director, or call him at (800)325-2422 to discuss the specifics of bringing a seminar to your community. Tell him who you are, where you are, and which parents you will want to take part in your seminar.

E-MAIL DR. ALVY

Below you will find typical comments from parents who have completed one of these fine seminars, indicating what they learned.

Also below you will find typical comments from parents whose company sponsored the seminar they attended, which reflect how they now feel about their company.

What Parents Learn in These Seminars

• "I learned through role playing that I can raise my children in a socially acceptable manner without violence."
• "I learned many favorable methods to use with my children and I will be able to raise them in a manner that makes them feel better."
• "Even though this was a short time, I learned to set guidelines which I had ignored in the past and I was not positive."
• "Generally, we do not have enough time for our children, but I learned from this seminar that we can have everyone work together in the home so we have family time."
• "This helped me a great deal because there are so many things that I did not know, and it cleared up doubts I had."
• "I learned various methods that will help me in not being so violent in raising and disciplining my daughter."