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of Multistate Efforts.
of Volunteers Engaged.
Number of individuals (parents or caregivers) reporting improved personal knowledge (such as enhanced knowledge of realistic behavior expectations and positive discipline techniques for children, healthy ways to promote children’s success in schools, and greater understanding of a child’s growth and development) |
1866 |
Number of individuals (parents or caregivers) reporting improved personal skills (such as increased discipline and communication skills, effective strategies for helping children manage their behavior and building self-worth and personal power) |
1438 |
Number of people (families) who reported using preventive and positive discipline techniques in response to child’s misbehavior, and setting and enforcing logical consequences for children’s behaviors |
1276 |
Number of parents and/or caregivers who practice parental leadership skills such as parental empathy, proper ways of establishing family rules, and concrete support of their child to develop a sense of positive self-worth |
1175 |
Number of parents and/or caregivers who accessed community resources when needed |
1142 |
Number of individuals (parents and caregivers) reporting improved personal growth |
1275 |
Number of individuals (parents and caregivers) reporting improved personal knowledge (such as developmental stages of a child, techniques to encourage positive development, positive discipline techniques for children, healthy ways to promote children’s success in schools, and signs of abuse and neglect) |
1355 |
Number of individuals (parents and caregivers) reporting improved personal skills (such as skills to prepare child for life; use positive discipline techniques; use of empathy, concrete support and proper family rules; effective self-care techniques) |
1268 |
Number of people (families) who reported using preventative and positive discipline techniques in response to child’s misbehavior, and setting and enforcing logical consequences for children’s behaviors |
1079 |
Number of parents and/or caregivers who practice effective parenting skills, such as parental empathy, proper ways of establishing family rules, and concrete support to their child, to develop a sense of self-worth |
1114 |
Number of parents and/or caregivers who accessed community resources when needed |
1029 |
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...
