Topic: Deployment, Parenting
Target Population: Military Families, Service Members, Parents
Sector: Community-Based
Military Sector: Army, Marines, Navy
This program is for parents in the military with children who are 0 to 5 years old.
Nurturing Parenting®: Nurturing America's Military Families, a family- and community-based parenting program, is designed to help parents learn new nurturing parenting skills and create healthy parent-child attachments.
No peer-reviewed publications evaluating the effectiveness of this program were located.
The Nurturing Parenting: Nurturing America's Military Families program teaches positive parenting skills and addresses topics that are unique to military life, such as deployment and separation, staying connected, reuniting after deployment, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Families attend sessions at home or in groups and create a nurturing plan that is family specific. Parents learn how to nurture themselves and their family members and build non-abusive parenting skills. Parents and children learn to enhance their awareness, knowledge, and skills in five areas that represent subscales of the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2):
This program uses a variety of presentation mediums: questionnaires, group discussions, role-play, and audiovisual exercises. During home sessions, parents and children meet separately and jointly throughout the program, and group sessions incorporate a shared family nurturing time.
The Navy, Army, and Marines have implemented the Nurturing Parenting: Nurturing America's Military Families program within the New Parent Support Programs worldwide.
This program is delivered by professionals and paraprofessionals working in areas such as education, mental health, juvenile probation, violence prevention, child welfare, school systems, treatment facilities, social work, and social services. A 3-day off-site or online workshop is available and costs $450. Please visit https://www.nurturingparenting.com/training-workshop.html for more information.
Considerations for implementing this program include recruiting facilitators and ensuring they complete training, acquiring participant buy-in, locating space for group sessions, and providing childcare during sessions.
The Clearinghouse can help address these considerations. Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
If you are interested in implementing Nurturing Parenting: Nurturing America's Military Families, the Clearinghouse is interested in helping you!
Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
The Nurturing Parenting: Nurturing America’s Military Families program consists of 55 lessons on parenting and 7 lessons that center on military family life. Four to six lessons are implemented per week, and program length varies per installation.
Costs for the complete program kit range from $1334.95 to $1559.96. Please visit https://www.nurturingparenting.com/shop/c/1:2:5/nurturing-americas-military-families for more information on additional program materials and ordering.
To move the Nurturing Parenting: Nurturing America's Military Families program to the Promising category on the Clearinghouse Continuum of Evidence, at least one evaluation should be performed demonstrating positive effects lasting at least six months from program completion.
The Clearinghouse can help you develop an evaluation plan to ensure the program components are meeting your goals. Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
Contact the Clearinghouse with any questions regarding this program.
Phone: 1-877-382-9185 Email: Clearinghouse@psu.edu
You may also contact Nurturing Parenting by mail Family Development Resources, Inc., 16292 S. Bringhurst Blvd., Suite #100, Bluffdale, UT 84065, phone 1-800-688-5822, fax 1-435-649-9599, e-mail FDR@nurturingparenting.com or visit https://www.nurturingparenting.com/contact.html
