Parenting Program Promotes Positive Interactions and Strengthens Families

Author: Katherine Jury

Major Program: Nurturing Parenting

Healthy couple and parenting relationships and resulting family stability benefit the well-being of adults and children. Children who live absent from their biological fathers are two to three times more likely to be poor, to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems than their peers who live with their married, biological (or adoptive) parents. In an effort to increase parenting skills and provide educational resources, the Hopkins County Family and Consumer Sciences Age

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Strengthening KentuckY (SKY) Families Making Impact and Changing Lives

Author: Carla Jordan

Major Program: Nurturing Parenting

Strengthening KentuckY (SKY) Families Parenting program began approximately 14 years ago in response to a community need to assist with increasing parenting skills for families of color. Over the years the program has involved to include all families. The Kentucky State University Strengthening KY Families (SKY) Parenting Education program provides instructional information on relevant issues that help divert crisis situations when parenting infants through young adults for families in the Lexin

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Moving past incarceration as a Father

Author: Ruth Chowning

Major Program: Nurturing Parenting

In the past 3 years, the Bullitt County Family and Consumer Science Extension Agent has partnered with the Bullitt County Detention Center Substance Abuse program (SAP) to provide a 13 week “Nurturing Fathering” program to over 331 incarcerated male participants. Surveys of the men who participate in the program show that over 40 % of the men had absentee fathers or suffered from childhood trauma. During the classes they often discuss the negative impact their background has on their

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SKY Families Committed to SAVING LIVES and SAVING FAMILIES

Author: Carla Jordan

Major Program: Nurturing Parenting

According to Trust for America’s Health, 2018, Drug overdoses are the leading cause of injury deaths in the United States, at nearly 44,000 per year.  Trust for America's Health, 2018 also purports that these deaths have more than doubled in the past 14 years, and half of them are related to prescription drugs (22,000 per year).  Overdose deaths now exceed motor vehicle-related deaths in 36 states and Washington, D.C. And, in the past four years, drug overdose death rates hav

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Child Abuse and Neglect is All of Our Problem!

Author: Carla Jordan

Major Program: Nurturing Parenting

Child Abuse and Neglect is Everyone’s Problem!Child abuse and neglect is a serious problem greatly impacts children living in the United States. Child abuse and neglect is defined as, any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation; or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2018). According t

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Nurturing Families: Nurturing Parenting and Nurturing Fathers

Author: David Weisenhorn

Major Program: Nurturing Parenting

Healthy parenting relationships benefit the well-being of adults and children, as well as promote family stability. Children who live absent from their biological fathers are two to three times more likely than their peers who live with their married, biological (or adoptive) parents to be poor, experience educational, health, emotional, and behavioral problems. In an effort to increase parenting skills and provide educational resources to the community, the Hopkins County Family and Consum

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