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The Video Interaction Project (VIP) aims to use regularly scheduled pediatrician visits for children ages 0–5 to support child development, school readiness, and educational outcomes. VIP sessions focus on increasing responsive parenting, a parenting style where parents learn to observe their child’s behavior, interpret their cues, and act in a way that meets the child’s needs.
The Washington State Kinship Navigator program is intended to support formal and informal kinship caregivers and the children they are raising. Washington state defines a kinship caregiver as any individual who steps in to raise a child when the child’s parents are unable to do so. The program is housed outside of the child welfare system but serves both caregivers who have been formally appointed through that system (formal kinship caregivers) and those who have not (informal kinship caregivers). The program connects caregivers with trained Kinship Navigators who provide services and support based on the caregiver’s needs.
Wellbriety & Celebrating Families!TM (Wellbriety & CF!) is an adaptation of CF! designed for Indigenous families with children ages 3–18 in which at least one parent has problematic substance use and is at risk of engaging in domestic violence, child abuse, or child neglect. The program incorporates traditional Indigenous teachings and cultural practices into the CF! content to meet the needs of Indigenous children and families. Wellbriety & CF! aims to break the cycle of addiction in families, improve participants’ healthy living skills, and increase children’s well-being and functioning. The curriculum engages every member of the family to foster the development of healthy and addiction-free individuals and emphasizes the importance of community service and individual spirituality.
WISE Teens is an adaptation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A) designed for teens in middle and high school. WISE Teens is an abbreviated version of the DBT STEPS-A curriculum that aims to help teens “build a life worth living” by developing skills such as emotion management, relationship building, and decision-making skills to help them navigate challenging situations and stressors that can arise during adolescence. WISE Teens’ approach is grounded in the idea that two seemingly opposing facts can both be true, most notably that the curriculum’s goals include both acceptance and change. WISE Teens instructors strive to help participants both accept themselves and make changes in their behavior.
Period of PURPLE Crying® is an educational program designed for parents and caregivers of children ages 0–2 years. Period of PURPLE Crying aims to prevent shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma by increasing family and community understanding about the period of increased crying in early infancy that can lead to shaking or abuse. PURPLE is an acronym describing the features of normal infant crying: (P) Peak of crying in month two, (U) Unexpected, (R) Resists soothing, (P) Pain-like face, (L) Long lasting, and (E) Evening crying.
Strong African American Families – Teen (SAAF-T) is a 5-session, group-based adaptation of the SAAF parenting program designed for families with youth ages 14–16. SAAF-T aims to build on the strengths of African American families to prevent substance use and other risky youth behaviors. The program focuses on strengthening parental monitoring and involvement, communicating with youth about sex and substance use, engaging in cooperative problem-solving, and providing positive racial socialization. SAAF-T promotes youth goal-setting and attainment, resistance of involvement in risky behaviors, strategies for addressing experiences of racism, and acceptance of parental influences. Each 2-hour session has two parts. In the first hour, youth and caregivers meet in separate groups for activities, discussion, and skill-building. In the second hour, families come back together for activities with their family and the larger group.
Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) is a group parenting education program designed for parents of children ages 6–12. STEP aims to teach parents how to encourage cooperative behaviors, avoid reinforcing unacceptable behaviors, change dysfunctional relationships with their children, and prevent substance use. Group leaders guide participants through weekly topic-focused sessions. Topics include understanding yourself and your child, understanding your child’s beliefs and feelings as well as your own, encouraging your child and yourself, listening to and talking to your child, helping children learn to cooperate, using consistent disciplinary methods, and preventing drug use.
Early Childhood Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (Early Childhood STEP) is a group parenting education program designed for parents of children ages 0–5. Early Childhood STEP aims to teach parents how to encourage cooperative behaviors, avoid reinforcing unacceptable behaviors, and improve relationships with their children. Group leaders guide participants through weekly topic-focused sessions. Session topics include understanding young children, understanding young children’s behavior, building self-esteem in the early years, communicating with young children, helping young children learn to cooperate, using consistent disciplinary methods, and nurturing social and emotional development.
Systematic Training for Effective Parenting of Teens (STEP/Teen) is a group-based parenting education program designed for parents of children ages 13–17. STEP/Teen aims to teach parents how to encourage cooperative behaviors, avoid reinforcing unacceptable behaviors, change dysfunctional relationships with their children, develop problem-solving strategies, and prevent substance use. Group leaders guide participants through weekly topic-focused sessions. Topics include understanding yourself and your teenager, changing your response to your teen, communicating respect and encouragement, encouraging cooperation and solving problems, using consequences to build responsibility, and applied problem solving for potential teen parenting challenges, such as homework completion, anger management, delinquency prevention, and sexual activity.
24:7 Dad® A.M. is a parenting program designed to help dads of children ages 0–18 develop basic fathering skills. 24:7 Dad A.M. aims to support the growth of caring and compassionate fathers by helping dads improve their knowledge, behaviors, and skills. Facilitators teach content related to the five characteristics of a 24:7 Dad: self-awareness, caring for self, fathering skills such as being a positive father figure and role model, parenting skills such as nurturing your children, and relationship skills. Facilitators typically deliver 24:7 Dad A.M. in a small group setting but can also deliver the program one-on-one.