The UM Linda Ray Intervention Center Parenting Program is designed to help families explore their hopes and challenges and recognize opportunities for celebration.
The Nurturing Parenting Programs are trauma-informed, family-based programs designed for the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Parents and their children learn positive and caring nurturing skills as a family. The center utilizes the evidence-based model, The Nurturing Program for Parents and their Children with Special Needs and Health Challenges ®. The program recognizes that each family has a unique history, value system, cultural identity, and combination of strengths and challenges and is based on the conceptual framework for Nurturing Programs:
- Appropriate Parental expectations
- Empathetic awareness of the needs of children
- Understanding and using empathetic, effective discipline strategies and behavior encouragement techniques
- Understanding appropriate parent-child roles and responsibilities
- Development of power and independence in children
There is no program cost to participating families, thanks to the generous funding of The Children’s Trust.
