2004 GRANT RECIPIENTS
Blaine Family Service Center—Blaine, WA $13,731
“Twenty-Twenty”—a family support and parent education project using family reading to underpin a range of activities that prevent child neglect. Over a 20 week period, 20 participating families will build healthy attachments, regular routines, strong community relationships, and school success through a family literacy project that includes: home visits, parent education, literacy training, and regular group gatherings with dinner, free books and skilled social support.
Family Support Center of South Snohomish County—Lynnwood, WA $14,118
CTF grant funds will be used to replicate the Little BEBOPS (Build Early Bonds Out of Play and Support) playgroup, a successful program (sponsored by the Foundation for Early Learning and the Maplewood Presbyterian Church) to reach out to parents and families in the Whispering Pines complex to create informal on site activities to assist with families with children under 5 to play together and build support networks. By creating a safe neighborhood space for families to come together with each other and their children, this project will build community connections and strengthen parents/child bonding, both hallmarks of family support.
Lakewood and Hilltop Family Centers—Tacoma, WA $5,500
“Strengthening Families” and “Love and Logic” Courses - two six-week parenting courses. Both curricula are best practices parenting development models that emphasize positive parenting strategies. The centers hope to use these two proven and unique curricula to measure their effectiveness with similar populations to assess which one best meets the needs of their target population.
North Clark County Family Resource Center—Battleground, WA $8,450
“Let’s Talk and Play” Based on a cooperative Preschool model, “Let’s Talk and Play” is a high quality developmentally appropriate program that improves parent child relationships through weekly groups that: promote the physical, social, emotional and cognitive development of young children; provide information pertinent to the individual development of participating children; increase parenting skills, positive networks of support and access to other services while decreasing isolation and other risk factors associate with child abuse and neglect. This program takes place in Battleground, a rural area of Southern Washington.
Kitsap Community Parenting Place—Bremerton, WA $10,000
“Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce: the Sandcastles Way.” As reported by the Kitsap County Commission on Children and Youth, Kitsap County exceeds state averages in four key indicators that affect parent child relationships: higher divorce rate; higher rate of domestic violence; higher rate of child abuse and neglect; higher rate of children in foster care. Given the high rate of divorce here and its impact on families, local community members and families recommended creating programs to assist families through this process. The Sandcastles Way is a nationally recognized program developed by M. Gary Neumann to help children and parents acquire communication and coping skills to improve the parent child relationship when they experience divorce.
Spokane Valley Family Resource Center—Spokane, WA $5,000
“Nurturing Parenting Program.” The Nurturing Parenting Program is a highly structured, research-based curriculum covering skill sets at the core of strengthening family values. Though nurturing is a basic instinct, the skills needed to use this instinct in a healthy manner are learned and can be reinforced or hindered by life experiences. The objectives of this program are to increase the parent/caretaker’s understanding of developmental needs of children and to increase parent/caretaker’s non punitive discipline and guidance skills resulting in an environment that demonstrates empathy and caring, responsibility and discipline, and family values.
Southwest Family Center (SWFC)—Seattle, WA $13,646
This CTF grant will provide funding for Parenting Classes for Immigrant and Refugee Parents. The SWFC will provide 2 8 week parenting classes specifically for families in each of the Somali, Cambodian, Samoan/Pacific Islander Communities and 1 12-week class for Latino parents taught in languages specific to the group, by native language speakers. These classes will be based on the “Strengthening Multi Ethnic Families and Communities” curriculum adapted by the bi-cultural staff to be relevant to the group. Topics covered will include information on child development, parenting goals and values, behavior management techniques, and comparisons of US and homeland child rearing and education practices.
