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Articles from the Effective Parenting Newsletter-September issue

Sep 17, 2004

Research has shown that children learn differently. How a child learns is greatly influenced by his or her background and environment. Parents of minority children may feel that standard off-the-shelf parenting programs do not address the needs of their children. The Center for the Improvement of
Child Caring (CICC), founded in 1974, is one of the nation's largest and most productive nonprofit parenting and parenting education organizations. They have 2 programs, one for African-Americans and one for Latino-Americans, to help minority parents through the parenting process.
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Effective Black Parenting Program

Raising African American children is an extremely
difficult task. While all children progress through
similiar developmental stages, African American
children and their parents face special problems
emanating from our country's history of racism and
discrimination.

CICC's Effective Black Parenting Program teaches
parenting strategies that are unique to parents of
African American children, such as the
Pyramid of Success for Black Children, Pride in
Blackness, and Traditional Black Discipline vs.
Modern
Black Self-Discipline. It also teaches all of the
parenting skills from the Confident Parenting Program
but from an African American frame of
reference and with the use of African proverbs.

Click here http://www.ciccparenting.org/cicc_sbp_11.asp#2 learn how to bring this program to YOUR
community, school, or workplace.

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Los Ni?±os Bien Educados Parenting Program

Like African American parents, Latino parents,
(especially those who primarily speak Spanish) face
unique challenges in raising children in the United
States. CICC's Los Ni?±os Bien Educados Program is
respectful of the traditions and customs of Latino
families and is sensitive to the variety of adjustments
that are made as they acculturate to life in the
multi-cultural society of the United States.

Los Ni?±os Bien Educados teaches parenting skills
within a Latino cultural frame of reference and with
the use of Latino proverbs or "dichos." Parents learn
effective skills and strategies for promoting and
maintaining those child behaviors which are
reflective of a child who is "bien educados" -
well-educated in both a social and academic sense.
The program can be taught in Spanish or English.

Click here http://www.ciccparenting.org/cicc_sbp_11.asp#2 learn how to bring this program to your
community, school, or workplace.

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