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Peer reviewedProchaska, Janice; Fallon, Beth Creager – Child Welfare, 1979
Describes a workshop which focused on preparing adults for a family life education program in their community. (CM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Education, Family Life Education
Howlett, Hoyt S. – 1983
A description of the Parent University program of the San Rafael (California) City Schools is presented. The Parent University is described as a 1-day event in which parents are offered a variety of seminars and workshops on topics in education and parenting. Materials included in this document are: (1) an overview of the second annual Parent…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Parent Education
Peer reviewedBell-Nathaniel, Afesa – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1979
Describes a workshop designed as a mutual training experience for parents and teachers. Goals were: to provide an opportunity for positive interaction and a perception of shared goals between Black parents and their children's teachers. Participants developed a set of action plans to meet the needs of Black children and evaluated the workshop.…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Educational Programs, Elementary Education, Interaction
Download full textFisher, Allison L.; Willard, Penny – 1994
A three-part series of evening workshops was designed to help adult basic education (ABE) parents identify learning styles and develop communication and advocacy skills, assertiveness, and self-esteem. At the workshops, instructors from the center presented an adaptation of curriculum on self-esteem for parenting developed by the Center for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Advocacy, Cognitive Style, Communication Skills
Lewis, Michael John; And Others – 1981
This manual on training parents in career education contains information that was obtained from a project during which staff from Teachers College of Columbia University provided formal training in career education for parents of handicapped children and youth. Following a description of the Parent Training Project in Career Education, various…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Disabilities
Okin, Allan D. – 1978
This paper describes the implementation of a kindergarten parent involvement program. Six parent volunteers attended a training sequence of 16 workshops to learn how to tutor kindergarten students and how to develop parenting skills. School personnel, including kindergarten teachers and a school psychologist, conducted the workshops. Students…
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Goldberg, Marge; And Others – 1989
This report reviews ongoing projects by the Parent Advocacy Center for Educational Rights (PACER), in particular its parent training program and programs for students. The Parents Helping Parents project is described and evaluated, including its efforts concerning public information, workshops for all parents, workshops for special groups,…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Advocacy, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Kumpfer, Karol L.; Tait, Connie M. – 2000
Originally designed as a drug abuse prevention program for drug-abusing parents and their children, the Strengthening Families Program (SFP) has developed into a family-change program. Presented in 14 2-hour-long, consecutive weekly sessions, SFP has two versions: for elementary school children and their parents and for parents and youth 10-14…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavior Change, Blacks, Coping
