• Confident Parenting
• Effective Black Parenting
• Los Ninos Bien Educados

Dear Colleague:

The 31-year-old, nonprofit Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC), is proud to announce that its three national model, parenting skill-building programs are now available to be taught as one-day seminars at any location in the nation.

These evidence-based programs - Confident Parenting: Survival Skill Training, Effective Black Parenting, and Los Ninos Bien Educados - are already in use in 44 states and the District of Columbia by over 2,500 organizations. They have won awards for their effectiveness and cultural relevance. They are being used for a variety of prevention and treatment purposes, depending on the missions of the organizations who bring the programs to their communities.

The programs are customarily taught by professionally trained and certified instructors who meet with groups of 10 to 20 parents for one class session a week for ten to fifteen weeks. Many parents have difficulty arranging their lives to be able to participate in such classes. So without alternative teaching formats, many parents just cannot attend and benefit.

The one-day seminar format, which is often used by businesses and professional groups, provides a more accessible option and one where large numbers of parents can participate. These educational events can be attended by as many as two hundred parents at a time.

The one-day seminars that CICC is now making available are led by professional instructors from our staff, and each parent receives a program handbook to use while in the seminar and at home.

Below you will find outlines and schedules of what is taught in each one-day seminar. You will also find links to detailed descriptions of the content, history and evaluation of each program.

If you would like to explore bringing one or more of these seminars to your agency or community, write me about your interest by clicking here .

Be sure to include some information about yourself and your organization.

Or you can call me at CICC's toll-free number, (800) 325-2422. We are located in Studio City, California.

I am very much looking forward to hearing from you, and to working together to bring these excellent parenting programs and training events to your area.

With warmest regards,

Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.
CICC Founder and Executive Director

08:00-09:00
• Registration and Continental Breakfast

09:00-10:30

• The Confident Parenting Approach
• The Family Rules Strategy
• The Thinking Parent's Strategy

10:30-10:45

• Break

10:45-12:00

• Effective Praise
• Mild Social Disapproval

12:00-01:00

• Luncheon

01:00-02:15

• Ignoring
• Time Out from Attention

02:15-02:30

• Break

02:30-03:45

• Special Incentives: The Point System

03:45-04:00

• Break

04:00-05:00

• Using Methods in Combination
• Spanking: A High Risk Method
• Resources for Further Learning

Program Description A detailed description of the Confident Parenting Program, which contains information on its history, content and evaluation, is available. The description can be used for grant writing and other purposes to help you bring the program to your community.

To review this program description, click here.

Instructor Training Workshops Another way to bring the program to your community is to have people from your organization trained and certified to deliver it. To learn about CICC's parenting instructor training workshops, click here .

Program Materials You can also obtain the Instructor Kit for this program and the parent handbooks. Click here.

08:00-09:00
• Registration and Continental Breakfast

09:00-10:30

• Pyramid of Success for Black Children
• Social Learning and How Learning Occurs
• Traditional Black Discipline versus Modern Black Self-Discipline

10:30-10:45

• Break

10:45-12:00

• Chit Chat Time
• Effective Praise

12:00-01:00

• Luncheon

01:00-02:15

• Family Rules: Purpose, Examples and Importance
• Family Rules: Guidelines

02:15-02:30

• Break

02:30-03:45

• Mild Social Disapproval
• Time Out from Attention

03:45-04:00

• Break

04:00-05:00

• Avoiding the Use of Spanking
• Resources for Further Learning
• Certificates of Completion

Program Description A detailed description of the Confident Parenting Program, which contains information on its history, content and evaluation, is available. The description can be used for grant writing and other purposes to help you bring the program to your community.

To review this program description, click here.

Instructor Training Workshops Another way to bring the program to your community is to have people from your organization trained and certified to deliver it. To learn about CICC's parenting instructor training workshops, click here .

Program Materials You can also obtain the Instructor Kit for this program and the parent handbooks. Click here.

08:00-09:00
• Registration and Continental Breakfast

09:00-10:30

• What Parents Do for Children
• The Meaning of Bien and Mal Educados:
  • Specific Behaviors
  • Family Expectations

10:30-10:45

• Break

10:45-12:00

• Increasing Respectful Behaviors:
  • First You Work/Then You Play
  • Effective Praising

12:00-01:00

• Luncheon

01:00-02:15

• Decreasing Disrespectful Behaviors:
  • Mild Social Disapproval
  • How to Ignore

02:15-02:30

• Break

02:30-03:45

• Decreasing Disrespectful Behaviors:
  • Time Out from Parental Attention

03:45-04:00

• Break

04:00-05:00

• Using the Methods in Combination
• Adjustments to the U.S. Context

Program Description A detailed description of the Confident Parenting Program, which contains information on its history, content and evaluation, is available. The description can be used for grant writing and other purposes to help you bring the program to your community.

To review this program description, click here.

Instructor Training Workshops Another way to bring the program to your community is to have people from your organization trained and certified to deliver it. To learn about CICC's parenting instructor training workshops, click here .

Program Materials You can also obtain the Instructor Kit for this program and the parent handbooks. Click here.

The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC) was founded in 1974 by Dr. Kerby T. Alvy and has grown to be one of the nation's largest and most productive nonprofit parenting and parenting education organizations. For more infomration about CICC's many programs, activities, products and services, go to www.ciccparenting.org, or call toll-free (800) 325-2422.

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