Nurturings

The simple truth is that when communities nurture parents and families, we provide our children with lifelong health. This is how we aim to spark cycles of child, family, and community flourishing. We've been in the parent education and support field for over 25 years and we've learned a few things about guiding, supporting and providing effective parenting resources for parents. What we do is based in broad research that shows supportive social ties are not optional. They're health requirements. When we bring communities and parents together, we aim to fill that essential health-giving requirement for them and for their children. But that's just the start. We train and work with community-based peer leaders to nurture parents through group methods that bring parents together to discuss, share and learn to use effective parenting skills that promote healthy parent-child relationships. Our group format shows early evidence and anecdotal effectiveness in supporting healthy parenting coping and effective parenting skills. But we already know from experience that when parents are supported in using sensitive responsive parenting practices, they're able to reduce and avoid derailing stressors and confidently put their energy into parenting that builds healthy parent-child relationships instead. This promotes healthy family life and healthy children who are on the path leading to lifelong health and learning. Read more about Nurturings at www.nurturings.org/nurturings-for-you