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For example, social protection, health care and cash transfer programmes could provide an entry point for parent education and support programmes. [ 3 ] The landscape of parenting programmes is quite complex and can be differentiated on several dimensions that have been associated with child outcomes.
The ability to read and understand medication instructions is a form of health literacy. Health literacy encompasses a wide range of skills, and competencies that people develop over their lifetimes to seek out, comprehend, evaluate, and use health information and concepts to make informed choices, reduce health risks, and increase quality of life.
The roots of family literacy as an educational method come from the belief that “the parent is the child's first teacher.” [1] Studies have demonstrated that adults who have a higher level of education tend to not only become productive citizens with enhanced social and economic capacity in society, [2] but their children are also more likely to be successful in school. [3]
The organization seeks to alter generational poverty by uniting parents and their children as learners together. [3] Since 1989, over a million families have been impacted by the NCFL's work. [4] NCFL pioneers family literacy models, and approaches to help improve the lives of the nation's at-risk children and families through greater literacy. [3]
They also provided programs for art and sport. Family resource programs also grew out of early maternal and child health programs such as the Victorian Order of Nurses. The parent education program Nobody's Perfect was established by Health Canada in 1987 and has become the model for many programs that followed.
Triple P, or the "Positive Parenting Program", was created by Professor Matthew R. Sanders and colleagues, in 2001 at the University of Queensland in Australia and evolved from a small “home-based, individually administered training program for parents of disruptive preschool children” into a comprehensive preventive intervention program (p. 506). [1]
The program aims to: Help children to reach their full potential as learners (early childhood education) Provide literacy training for parents (adult education) Help parents to become full partners in education of their children (parenting education) In May 2009, President Barack Obama proposed eliminating the program. [2]
STEP is based on Alfred Adler's individual psychology and the work of the psychologists Rudolf Dreikurs and Thomas Gordon.. An evaluation of the program found that parents who participated in Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) had more positive perceptions of their children and were less likely to abuse them.