September Is Infant Mortality Awareness Month

For more info on Infant Mortality Awareness Month please visit the OCFS website here.  For info on Healthy Families New York visit this link.

Professional Development Opportunities

Interested in continuing to grow as a parenting educator?  Here are two ideas....

For parent educators on Long Island and in the metro area, check out the Parenting Institute at Adelphi University, Garden City, offering a variety of advanced level courses and workshops for professionals as well as programs for parents.  Currently promoting their Post Masters Training Program in Parent Education and Parent Guidance: this certificate program is an intensive training program designed for parent educators and/or clinicians who work with parents. Its goal is to promote a deepened understanding of the theories, values and principles that inform this work. Details at: http://www.adelphi.edu/parentinginstitute/

For parent educators in central New York a two day facilitator training for PS: It Works! / Personal – Professional Communication Skills is being offered Tuesday, October 30, 2012 and Wednesday, October 31, 2012 from 9 am to 4:30 pm at Cornell Cooperative Extension-Tompkins Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850.  This training will help prepare professionals to use and reinforce five core communications skills with their clients, to use daily in their own personal and professional lives, to conduct the Parenting Skills Workshop Series and Parenting Skills for Literacy Series, and to make referrals to those workshops. Past participants include: parenting educators, DSS personnel, social workers, teachers, child care providers, mental health professionals, alcohol & drug rehab counselors, coaches and others who work with people! The $150 registration fee covers the 2 day training, lunch, snack, plus a Parenting Skills Workshop Series manual. Preregistration is required. For more information visit:

http://ccetompkins.org/sites/all/files/63/2012-ps-it-works-brochure.pdf

2012 PARENTING EDUCATION PROGRAM GRANTS

NYSPEP awarded 12 grants ranging from $1000 to $3000 to increase access to evidence-based parenting education programs, thanks to a grant from the NYS Office of Mental Health. Awardees were selected from 96 applications from across the state.  

• Brooklyn Public Library, First Five Years Program: Weekend Preschool Storytime and Ready, Set, Kindergarten: To translate print materials and develop web-based videos in Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Russian.
• Commission on Economic Opportunity, Troy, Fatherhood Initiative, ACT:Parents Raising Safe Kids for Head Start fathers and incarcerated fathers: For program handbooks, child care, refreshments, transportation (bus passes), follow-up sessions, marketing (flyers).
• Community Action Organization of Erie County, Inc., Parents Forever- Parent Education Program, Incredible Years for parents, grandparents, caregivers: child care (stipends), transportation (bus tokens), also marketing to the community.
• EAC Long Island Parenting Institute, Common Sense Parenting: parent scholarships (curriculum cost), added classes (3 more sessions), transportation.
• Family Service League, Huntington, Parent to Parent program, Common Sense Parenting: parent stipends for transportation, child care and program supplies; follow-up sessions, completion celebration refreshments.
• Mental Health Association in Ulster Co. Education and Advocacy Department, WRAP (Wellness Recovery Acton Plan) for parents and children: facilitator training, lunch and snacks (day-long sessions), program supplies, transportation (bus tokens, gas reimbursement).
• Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency, Inc., Utica, Nurturing Parenting for Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers: program supplies (two additional sessions), family dinner, child care, transportation.
• North Country Prenatal/Perinatal Council, Inc., Watertown, for Gouverneur Activity & Learning Center Nurturing Parent program: parent stipends (isolated, rural, high unemployment), transportation, program supplies, child care, added session.
• Parsons Child and Family Center, Albany, Families United Network/Child Guidance 4Rs and 2Ss for Strengthening Families: transportation, program supplies, dinner for families (per evening sessions, work schedules)
• P.E.A.C.E. Inc. Syracuse,  County South FRC, Food for the Parent's Soul, three more 9-month programs: child care (on site), light meal for parents and children (increases attendance, comfort and socialization)
• Pro Action of Steuben and Yates, Inc., Bath, Family Enrichment Collaborative, 24/7 Dad fatherhood series, male facilitators compensation, program curriculum, transportation support, child care.
•  YES Community Counseling Center, Massapequa, Parents and Children Engaged (P.A.C.E.), Active Parenting curriculum w/added parent-child activities: facilitator training, transportation (prepaid gas cards), child care (Girl Scouts partnership), program supplies, marketing (PTA, schools, chamber of commerce partners).