The Parent Program
Parent Leadership In Action Network
(PLAN)

What Is The
Parent Program?

We envision a world of “parenting communities” where everyone living in a community is invested in the safety and strength of its families; where support manifests itself through the local businesses, community service providers, resources, and neighborhoods within it. Your support is critical in creating the conversation in communities across the globe and supporting the leadership that will emerge when families take the lead. There is a lot of work to be done to spread the message across the globe and develop new resources that support families in strengthening themselves by getting real, living the protective factors, and waking up to their potential.

Our Parent Leaders will engage you in how you can support the violence prevention efforts of your community. They will create conversation and dialogues and assist you with creating and implementing solutions to the issues that affect you daily.

How Does The
Parent Program Help?

Parent-and family-based interventions are designed to improve family relations. There is growing evidence that these interventions, especially those that start early and recognize all the factors that influence a family, can have substantial, long-term effects in reducing violent behavior by children. Parent-and family-based interventions combine training in parenting skills, education about child development and the factors that predispose children to violent behavior, and exercises to help parents develop skills for communicating with their children and for resolving conflict in nonviolent ways. This type of intervention is ideal for families with very young children and for at-risk parents with a child on the way.

Many parents whose children have already displayed antisocial behaviors or have committed delinquent acts live in a stressful and isolating environment. Such parents may be economically distressed and socially cut off, with little access to financial or psychological support. The common belief is that it’s extremely difficult to implement effective parent-training programs for disadvantaged parents, particularly low-income single mothers. However, this perception is misleading. Interventions that involve parents in planning, recruitment, group leadership, and priority setting have successfully enlisted and retained low-income participants, have positively influenced parenting behaviors, and have enhanced family and community support networks

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