Parents As Teachers Home Visiting - PowerPoint Presentation

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Parents As Teachers Home Visiting

Preventing child abuse in our CommunitiesSlide2

Parents As Teachers (PAT)Parent Connection, a program of Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin, was the first PAT program in Wisconsin.

Parent Connection is currently going through the new PAT Endorsement process.

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Facts & FiguresIn 2016, Parent Connection served 360 families in Winnebago and Outagamie Counties

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There were 3 substantiated abuse reports among the families (1% of the PAT population).55% of families are low income.12% of parents do not have a high school diploma or equivalent.

29% of parents have a diagnosed mental illness.130 of the families have three or more high needs characteristics. Slide4

Services ProvidedCompleted 4,280 home visits

Preformed child screenings for physical and emotional development, vision, hearing and home safety.

Preformed assessments with the parents on Post partum depression, domestic violence, Adverse Childhood experiences and parent Child interaction. 100% of parents completed at minimum of one goal.100% of families received a community referral.Slide5

Family Nurturing ProgramsWhat is Nurturing: Birth to 12?Slide6

Nurturing Parenting Programs are a 

family-centered

trauma-informed initiative

designed to build nurturing parenting skills as an alternative to abusive and neglecting parenting and child-rearing practices.

Long term goals are to prevent recidivism in families receiving social services, lower the rate of multi-parent teenage pregnancies, reduce the rate of juvenile delinquency and alcohol abuse, and stop the intergenerational cycle of child abuse by teaching positive parenting behaviors.Slide7

Stephen J. Bavolek

, Ph.D., is a recognized leader in the fields of child abuse and neglect treatment and prevention, and parenting education.

He is the principal author of the Nurturing Parenting Programs®, programs designed to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect, and the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI), an inventory designed to assess high risk parenting attitudes. Slide8

The Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI) is a 40 item, norm-referenced, Likert scale designed to assess the parenting beliefs and practices of adult and adolescent parent and non-parent populations. The AAPI is designed to assess the beliefs for parenting children from infancy to 12 years of age. Responses to the AAPI provide an index of risk for child maltreatment in five parenting practices known to result in child maltreatment.

These practices are presented as Constructs:

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. Developmental Expectations;B. Parental Level of Empathy;

C. Belief in the use of Corporal Punishment;

D. Reversing Parent-Child Family Roles; and

E. Oppressing Children’s Power and Independence.Slide9

Parent Connection’s Nurturing Program explores 80 Nurturing Parenting Skill Lessons

Based on the AAPI scores lessons are adapted to the families needs.

Nurturing can be a Two-hour group-based workshops run weekly for 10 weeks or one hour individual lessons with the family in the home. The Lesson Guide for Children provides lessons that are complimentary to the parents each week. Slide10

“ You went beyond the call of duty last night in making the workshop happen. Quite simply, thank you. Believe

it or not, but Family services has been one of the most wonderful opportunities for me for a long time. I must tell you that your effort and commitment is appreciated to the very core of

who I am as a person since it deeply affects the basis of who I am-a father first-all else comes after that in second, third, etc. order. I am only now beginning to understand how far I was off track before I came to FS. I've often thought that someday in the distant future when I am on my deathbed, all the things of my life will not amount to much of anything, except the family that is there to hold my hand”.

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Families learn how to:

Handle feelings, communicate needs, recognize the needs and feelings of

othersEstablish

nurturing routines for regular family affairs such as meals, bedtime,

chores, baths, diapering or toilet

training

Replace

hitting or yelling with other, more effective behavior modification and discipline

techniques like

redirection, time-out, choices

&

consequences, ignoring, praise,

rules

, problem solving

& verbal management

Have

warm interactions and communicate with one another

Gain

a sense of power and feel good about

oneself

Take

charge of one's behavior

Handle

stress and anger

Recognize

the need for healthy

touch

Enjoy

each other and have fun

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Community ResponseSlide13

Community ResponsePartnership between Outagamie County Human Services and Family Services’ Parent Connection and SELF (Support, Education,

Lifeskills and Family) programs.

Family Services takes screened out calls from Child Protective Services for cases involving children 0-3years (Parent Connection program) and for children 12-17 years (SELF program). Outagamie County Parent Resource Program takes the cases with children 3-11years of age (55% of referrals are in this age group).

100% Voluntary participation.Slide14

Community ResponseStep One: Get Connected to the family.Step Two: Tell us how we can help, community response worker will find resources in the community to help your family.

Step Three: Work together in setting and completing family goals.