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CICC Parent Training
Seminars
CICC offers one day parent training
seminars in cooperation with corporations, schools, churches and other
organizations committed to improving the quality of parenting in their
communities.
Each seminar is divided into carefully
sequenced learning segments that help parents learn proven strategies and
skills for increasing their children's positive behavior and decreasing
their negative behaviors, thereby bringing parents and children closer
together and strengthening families.
Led by experienced parent training
professionals, these seminars are tailored to the unique socioeconomic and
cultural needs of the parent participants.
In order to facilitate parent attendance
and to provide an enriching experience for the entire family, each seminar
is reasonably priced and includes child care as well as a
luncheon.
Three separate seminars are
available:
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Confident Parenting |
This seminar teaches parents how
to consistently and effectively increase the times when their
children behave positively. It also introduces parents to proven
limit-setting and discipline skills that they can use to decrease
their children's misbehavior. Strategies for understanding the
causes of children's behavior and for creating effective family
rules are taught. Parents also learn specific skills such as
Effective Praise, Mild Social Disapproval, Ignoring, Time Out and
the Point System - and they learn to put these skills together into
an integrated approach to confidently raising today's children and
achieving harmony in the home.
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Effective
Black Parenting |
Raising children in our modern
society is an extremely difficult task. This is especially true for
parents of African-American heritage. Black parents face special
problems that arise from our country's history of racism and
discrimination and which make it more difficult for them to raise
children who are successful and achieving adults. This seminar
teaches a set of parenting strategies and child management skills
from within an African-American perspective such as The Pyramid of
Success for Black Children, Modern Black Self-Discipline, Effective
Praising, and Chit-Chat Time. Parents learn to put these skills and
strategies to work in their families so that they can raise proud
and confident African-American children.
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Los Niņos
Bien Educados |
Latino parents, and especially
those who are Spanish-speaking, face unique challenges in raising
children in the United States. This seminar is respectful of the
unique traditions and customs of Latino families and is sensitive to
the variety of adjustments that are made as they acculturate to life
in our modern multi-cultural society. From the perspective of their
specific cultural frame of reference, parents learn a sequence of
proven strategies and skills for promoting and maintaining those
child behaviors defined as constituting "bien educados" (well
educated in both a social and academic sense) and for reducing those
reflecting "mal educados". This seminar can be offered in either
English or Spanish and can be customized to the acculturation needs
of the parents involved.
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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
well help me in not being so violent in raising and
disciplining my daughter" |
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What Parents Say
About Companies That Provide Seminars |
"I feel that the company is looking out for the
employee's family well-being by presenting this seminar. I
feel very positive about my employer"
"It makes me proud to be a part
of such a forward thinking company"
"Shows the company understands
there's life after work!"
"Supports the fact that the
company cares about me - both at home and on the job"
"The fact that they're taking an
interest in improving our family life improves my attitude
toward my employer"
"I feel that my employer is
showing an interest in my family and trying to make it
possible to present ways of parenting so I can concentrate
more on my job with less worries about my child"
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Arranging and Conducting a
Seminar ...
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CICC provides expert consultation on selecting the
appropriate seminar for your organization and on how to implement
it.
The consultations include guidelines on recruiting and
registering parents, securing an appropriate training site and child
care, providing meals and refreshments, and evaluating the
semimar.
Then CICC sends a professional instructor to your
community to lead the seminar, and also provides each parent with a
guidebook on what is taught in the seminar.
Seminar Fees:
Based on Number of Parents Per
Seminar
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| 50-99 Parents |
$55 Per Participant |
| 100-199 Parents |
$45 Per Participant |
| 200-up Parents |
$35 Per Participant |
Payment of Fees: Three Options
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| 1. Your organization pays enrollment fees for
participating parents. |
| 2. Your organization pays part of the fees and
the individual parents pay the balance (examples: 70/30,
60/40, 50/50, etc.). |
| 3. Parents pay the full enrollment fees. |
Sample One-Day Seminar:
Confident Parenting |
| 8:00 - 9:00 |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
The Confident Parenting Approach |
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The Family Rules Strategy |
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The Thinking Parent's Strategy |
| 10:30 - 10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45 - 12:00 |
Effective Praise |
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Mild Social Disapproval |
| 12:00 - 1:00 |
Luncheon |
| 1:00 - 2:15 |
Ignoring |
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Time Out from Attention |
| 2:15 - 2:30 |
Break |
| 2:30 - 3:45 |
Special Incentives: The Point System |
| 3:45 - 4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00 - 5:00 |
Using the Methods in Combination |
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Spanking: A High Risk Method |
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Resources for Further
Learning | |
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