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This guidebook describes the steps and best practices for successfully selecting and implementing a parenting intervention. The purpose of this guidebook is to provide you, as program, state, and network leaders, an easy-to-use tool for implementing a parenting intervention.
The purpose of the compendium is to provide information needed to make informed judgments about which parenting interventions to use to improve child outcomes. They offer a structured set of activities that engage parents directly in ways that will influence parenting behaviors such as nurturing, discipline, teaching, monitoring, and management.
This document discusses The Strong Start for America’s Children Act which builds on the framework put forward by President Obama in his 2013 State of the Union Address and reflects Chairman Tom Harkin’s longstanding commitment to ensuring that learning begins at birth.