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Parenting

Activities

  • Play Kits
    Utilizing everyday household materials, these play kits provide hands-on activities for parents or child care providers to use with children.

Programs

CFS Extension educators in your community might offer one or more of these programs — contact your county Extension office for details.

  • Blue Ribbon Parenting
    This programming model has been offered across the state of Indiana, usually as a parenting "mini-conference" with a keynote speaker and breakout sessions. It usually has been accompanied by a resource fair highlighting programs and services available in that community.
  • Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
    Targeted to limited-resource households with pregnant women and pre-teen children. Through hands-on learning, participants learn the skills and motivation needed to choose and prepare healthy and safe meals for their families. It is delivered in 14 Indiana counties.
  • Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Legal and Policy Challenges
    Video-based program designed for presentation to grandparents who are raising grandchildren and other relatives who are raising kin.
  • Have A Healthy Baby
    Prenatal nutrition education program consisting of six lessons that emphasize nutrition and lifestyle choices — smoking, drinking, and drugs. The program is research-based and taught by trained, caring professionals.
  • It’s My Child Too!
    Helps young, non-custodial fathers learn how to participate in the healthy development of their children. The program includes 14 sessions focused on fathers’ roles, children’s health and behavior, responsible decision-making, and co-parenting relationships.
  • Mentor Mother
    This program matches teen mothers one-on-one with adult volunteer mothers who act as models, liaisons, educators, but most of all, friends.
  • Parenting Piece by Piece
    A series of eight parenting education sessions designed for use with parents who have been mandated to attend parenting training due to their identification as physically or emotionally abusive and/or neglectful parents.
  • Raising Healthy Eaters
    Geared for parents and providers of children ages 2-5, classes include activities, food preparation, and discussion focusing on nutrition, eating behaviors, and parenting.  

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