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Dr. Alvy is
also the executive director of the Center for the Improvement of
Child Caring in California which he founded in 1974 and which has
grown to be one of the nation's most influential parenting education
organizations.
He has been
honored for his and CICC's work at the White House and by various
government and civic groups, as well as being awarded a Distinguished
Alumni Award from the State University of New York at Albany where he
received his doctorate in 1970.
He is the
author of several books on parenting and parent education including
The Positive Parent: Raising Healthy, Happy and Successful Children,
Birth through Adolescence, Parent Training Today: A Social Necessity,
Black Parenting: Strategies for Training, The CICC Discovery Tool,
and The Power of Positive Parenting.
Dr. Alvy has
also authored three of the most widely used parenting skill-building
programs in the United States, The New Confident Parenting Program,
the Effective Black Parenting Program and the Los Ninos Bien Educados
Program, the latter two being the most widely used programs by
parents of African and Latino American children.
Over 2500
schools and organizations nationwide have had their staffs trained to
deliver these programs to the parents and families they serve.
He has also been a director of numerous community service, research
and training projects that have been supported by grants from
federal, state and local government agencies and by over 80 private,
community and corporate foundations including Ford, Hearst, Xerox,
AT&T, Morgan Stanley, Verizon, Disney, Annenberg,
California Community Foundation and the Daniel T. Alvy Family
Foundation.
He is married
to Mary, a kindergarten and special education teacher. They are
parents to Lisa and Brittany, both of whom graduated from the
University of California at Berkeley as Phi Beta Kappa students and
who are currently pursuing careers in the helping professions.
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The founder of the National
Effective Parenting Initiative, psychologist Dr. Kerby T. Alvy,
announced today the National Effective Parenting
Initiative's four-part plan to make the United States of America
the premiere nation for educating parents to be as effective and
successful as possible in raising children.
Working with
the Obama Administration
The
plan includes working with President Obama and his administration to
become champions of effective parenting and parenting education, and
to support actions and policies that will make it possible for every
parent in the United States to receive the best parenting education
and support.
(1) Issuing
Parents' Day Proclamations that honor parents for enrolling in and
completing parenting classes,
(2) Issuing
Presidential Certificates of Appreciation for doing so,
(3) Conducting
White House Conferences on Effective Parenting and Parenting
Education, and
(4) Creating a
Department or Office of Effective Parenting with appropriate
research, training and clearinghouse capabilities.
Research
Based
"The plan is
based on decades of research that has shown that certain ways of
raising children are more productive than others in preparing
children for life success in a democratic society," says Dr.
Alvy, "and that there now exists an excellent array of educational
programs from which parents of all backgrounds can learn to be
maximally effective and successful in carrying out their awesome
societal responsibilities."
Dr. Alvy further indicates that "by making sure that all parents
have the opportunity to benefit from these programs, and are
motivated to do so, a nation increases its overall chances of success
and continuation. This is so because when more parents are effective,
more children enter school ready and capable of learning and more
children eventually reach their full potential as caring and educated
human beings."
"In
addition," Alvy asserts, "children raised effectively and
non-abusively are less likely to become school dropouts, welfare
recipients, delinquents, drug abusers, gang bangers and criminals,
thereby saving the nation billions of dollars in tax monies that are
used to manage and control these preventable social, health and
psychological problems."
Parents' Day
Proclamations
The
first steps in actualizing this plan have already been taken by
urging President Obama to include in his Parents' Day Proclamation
for 2009 the acknowledgement of parents who are already enrolling in
and completing parenting programs. Attached is a copy of the
letter to President Obama and suggested proclamations.
To
view a copy of the letter to President Obama and suggested
proclamations, click here.
Future efforts to support the plan will include White House and
Congressional Briefings.
The
rationale and model for the fourth part of the plan, the Department
of Effective Parenting, are available by clicking here.
How You Can Become Involved
There are several
ways that you as an individual or as an organization
can participate in and support the National Effective Parenting
Plan.
1. Support NEPI
by becoming a member. There are three membership categories.
Click on the one
you are interested in. You will be taken to the NEPI website
where the membership costs and benefits are listed.
2. Click here to sign the Effective
Parenting Petition.
3. Start a local
Effective Parenting Project in your community, like NEPI's Uniting
Los Angeles for Effective Parenting Project. Click here for more
information.
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