Partnership for Children: Parent Education Workgroup

The Parent Education Work Group is charged with developing parent education strategies that address priority areas established by the Partnership.  For their work, the Partnership has defined parent education as parent and caregiver knowledge of child and family issues; also awareness of parent education resources in the community.  The Work Group is further charged with making recommendations to the full Partnership regarding those decisions that have broad or significant impact or implications and reporting to the Partnership on a regular basis about the Work Group’s progress and accomplishment of tasks within agreed upon timelines.

Specifically, the Parent Education Work Group will collaborate to:

• Coordinate the parent education services provided by partner agencies (consistent with agency and/or program requirements).
• Develop parent education strategies that address priority issues or gaps in service as identified by the Partnership.
• Formulate a recommended implementation plan to be shared with the Partnership at designated times for discussion and approval.
• Identify the resources necessary to implement the developed strategies.
• Design an evaluation process for measuring the effectiveness of the strategy in coordination with the Data Management Work Group.

As a result of its actions, the Parent Education Work Group will increase the effectiveness of the Partnership’s parent education services and strengthen its efforts to address its priority issues.

Projects/Activities:  Parent Education Guide, Parenting Mobile (Follow this link for more information:  http://www.cyfs.org/MPEV.html), Saturday Parenting Workshops, Best Bets Parenting Website (including books and DVD/VHS parenting info), portable resource display.