Franklin County CES

Title:

Family Nurturance, Parenting and Care-giving

MAP:

Family Nurturance Across the Lifespan

Agents Involved:

T.Thomas, L.Bullock, K. Perry

MAJOR PROGRAM 1:

Nurturing Families (general)

MAJOR PROGRAM 2:

Relationship Smart Plus 3.0

MAJOR PROGRAM 3:

Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Core Curriculum

MAJOR PROGRAM 4:

Nurturing Parenting

Situation:

Healthy families are critical to a community. It is important for individuals, couples,and families to attain skills that help them create healthy relationships at home, school or in the workplace while building strong families. Unfortunately, today's families often experience challenges that can breakdown the family system, e.g., drug and alcohol addiction and domestic violence. These problems can lead to child maltreatment or fatalities. As a result, when a negative event occurs due to the above societal issues more and more grandparents are raising the children or children are placed in foster care.

The Child Fatality & Near Fatality External Review Panel (2015) recommends that research-based education to parents and caretakers that prevent abusive head trauma and Safe Sleep at the time of discharge. Cooperative Extension has the ability to enhance parenting skills that promote healthy child development and parent engagement from birth and beyond.

Lastly, because of our aging population, adult children find themselves providing care for their own children and aging parents, or older parents are providing care to a chronically ill spouse.

When the needed skills are developed, individuals gain a understanding and appreciation of the role and responsibility of being a family member, friend, partner, employee and community member.

Long-Term Outcomes:

Improved communication and at home, school and workplace
Improved relationship quality between married and unmarried couples
Decrease in child maltreatment
Decreased bullying and domestic violence
Decreased child placement in foster care system
Positive parenting styles

Intermediate Outcomes:

Ability to communicate one's own needs met
Set personal boundaries
Increased self-esteem
Show empathy for others
Understand basic child development
Understand and provide nurturing behavior: show love, provide basic needs
Use age appropriate discipline without violence
Communicate without violence
Increased family interactions

Initial Outcomes:

Identify the characteristics of healthy relationships
Identify behaviors that damage relationships
Learn age-appropriate expectations
Learn how to respect the needs, feelings and individuality of self and others

Evaluation:

Initial Outcome: Self Awareness
Indicator:
Method: Discussion and homework assignments
Timeline: Before and after program

Intermediate Outcome: Understanding
Indicator:
Method: Discussion and homework assignments
Timeline: Weekly

Long-term Outcome: Youth and adults exhibit behaviors that ensure healthy relationships.
Indicator: Reported understanding of benefits
Method: Post-surveys
Timeline: 3 month, 6 month and 12 month follow ups.

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Youth and Adults
Project or Activity:
Content or Curriculum: ACT Parenting Curriculum, ,
Inputs: Agents, Fiscal Court, Drug Court, Cabinet for Families, FRC
Date:

Audience: Youth and Adults
Project or Activity:
Content or Curriculum: Relationship Smarts
Inputs: Agent, local schools, Family Resource Staff
Date:

Audience: Divorcing Families
Project or Activity:
Content or Curriculum: Families in Transition (FIT)
Inputs: Agent and Family Court
Date:

Audience: Youth and Adults
Project or Activity: 4-H Babysitting
Content or Curriculum: ACT Parenting Curriculum, 4-H Babysitting curriculum,
Inputs: CES Agents, YMCA, FCHD
Date: September - August