New York Parenting Education Programs
Parent education programs provide an enormous breadth and depth of information to parents across the United States with the goals of enhancing parent-child relationships and strengthening families. There exist several types of parent education programs designed to meet the needs of various types of audiences; parents, teens or entire families. The most common types of programs involve efforts to increase participant knowledge about parenting-related matters and/or to strengthen parents' ability to identify and draw upon needed resources to support them with any challenges they face.
Programs include:
- general parenting information to help all parents gain additional knowledge or skills (e.g. Parenting Skills Workshops), sometimes referred to as “family skill building;”
- parental support and information for specific groups of parents (e.g., single mothers, pregnant or parenting teens);
- targeted interventions for specific parenting issues such as alcohol dependency, substance abuse; and
- targeted intervention programs for children with special needs or problems such as low literacy or learning disabilities.
This work was supported by a joint research and extension program funded by Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Hatch funds) and Cornell Cooperative Extension (Smith Lever funds) received from Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publications are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.