about the many programs that are available, they are in an excellent position to make informed and
educated decisions about which programs are best for the parent populations they serve.
Without such knowledge, it is not possible to know whether an agency or community is delivering
the most appropriate programs for their parents and they may actually be delivering
inappropriate ones.
CICC can work with any community or organization in delivering a Parenting Program Showcase
Conference. The range of parenting programs that can be showcased and demonstrated at such
conferences include:
- Active Parenting
- Active Parenting of Teens
- CICC's Confident Parenting
- CICC's Effective Black Parenting
- CICC's Los Niños Bien Educados
- Developing Capable People
- Early Childhood Systematic Training for Effective Parenting
- How To Talk So Kids Will Listen
- Growing Up Again
- Nurturing Programs
- Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.)
- Parenting In a TV Age
- Parenting Your Teenager
- Positive Indian Parenting
- Preparing for the Drug-Free Years
- Self-Esteem: A Family Affair
- Siblings Without Rivalry
- Southeast Asian Parenting Program
- STEP: Systematic Training for Effective Parenting
- STEP/TEEN
- 1, 2, 3, 4 Parents!
These conferences can also be delivered in conjunction with pre-planned parenting instructor
training workshops that are scheduled to take place three or four months after the showcase
conference. This enables conference participants who are excited about a particular program
to enroll immediately in a workshop to learn how to deliver the program of their choice.
This "Parent Training Program Showcase Conference Plus Instructor Training Workshop" approach
was utilized and researched by CICC in the 1970's under a five-year grant from the National
Institute of Mental Health. Its success in educating and preparing professionals was
acknowledged by the approach being termed "a national training model."
Soon after this model was shown to be so effective, other federal government agencies, like
the U.S. Office of Substance Abuse Prevention (now the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention)
and several state agencies, adopted this CICC-developed training model. Many other state and
local organizations have subsequently adopted this CICC model, and have often conducted these
conferences and workshops in collaboration with CICC.
If your agency, department, school district or community consortium would be interested in
bringing a specially-tailored Showcase Conference to your area, contact CICC's Training
Department to explore how CICC can work with you in designing and delivering such a conference.