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Parenting

Change the First 5 Years and You Change Everything

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

HHS 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.
  • Parenting Counts
    Developed by Talaris Institute, this research-based curriculum and supporting resources includes a contemporary 13-lesson curriculum for parents and caregivers of young children ages birth to age 5. Topics include the basics of child development, literacy and school readiness, stress management, communication, and social and emotional competency. For more information about Parenting Counts and Talaris Institute. For more information click above link.
  • Parents Raising Safe Kids
    An 8-lesson curriculum series of educational programs about basic child development practices to prevent violence and teach responsible behavior. Topics include understanding the impact of violence on young children; anger management, social problem-solving, discipline, and media violence. This program was developed by The American Psychological Association—APA—and the National Association for the Education of Young Children—NAEYC—as part of the ACT (Adults and Children Together) Against Violence initiative. For more information click above link.
  • 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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