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Core Competencies for Parent Education Home Visitors

Core Competencies for Supervisors of Home Visitors 

Measuring the Fit with Best Practices for Parent Education and Support Programs: A Guide for Program Planners, Program Implementers and Proposal Writers 
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Recommended Practices in Parent Education and Support - 2000

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General parenting education and support issues
Parenting matters
Assumptions underlying parenting education and support
Risk factors for effective parenting 
Personal risk characteristics
Situational risk characteristics
Child risk characteristics
Protective factors for effective parenting
Responsibilities of parents
Responsibilities of communities and institutions
Limitations of parenting education 
Factors which limit the effectiveness of parenting education
Promoting positive behavioral change
Recruiting and retaining hard-to-reach audiences
Most effective types of programs
Parent education programming categories

Home visiting and center-based programs 
Home Visiting 
Recommendations for Home Visiting Programs
Center-based Programs

Programming focused on specific parenting issues
Appropriate discipline
Antisocial behavior and chronic delinquency
Substance use prevention
Sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, and pregnancy
Interparental conflict

Programming focused on parenting at specific stages of child development
Prenatal-toddler
School-age children
Pre-adolescents

Programming focused on specific groups of parents 
Parents with low incomes
Parents who are teens
Parents who are single
Parents who are divorcing or are divorced
Fathers

Programming focused on specific groups of parents (continued)
Grandparents who are parenting grandchildren
Parents in ethnic groups
Parents of children with disabilities
Parents who are mentally retarded
Parents with child abuse and neglect potential or confirmed behavior
Parents involved in domestic abuse - and the overlap with child abuse 

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