A two-day training for all professionals who work with adolescent parents offers constructive insights into teen parents, their children, and the issues they all face.
A two-day training for all professionals who work with adolescent parents offers constructive insights into teen parents, their children, and the issues they all face.
Being culturally aware, sensitive and competent is a challenge which must be met by all professionals and programs wishing to develop or expand their services for families.
To mark Financial Literacy Month, PBS’ “Need to Know" program correspondent Stacey Tisdale travels to Mississippi to examine a program designed to help low-income, mostly African-American children save for college and teach them about banking and money along the way. Anchor Ray Suarez interviews Richard Cordray, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Congratulations to those who received the Certified Family Life Educator designation during the first quarter of 2013. We are pleased to have these professionals join the program and promote the designation through their work.
Implementing evidence-based programs is a hot topic in child and youth development. Three research briefs Child Trends released recently suggest that it's not enough to invest in programs that have been shown to work — we need to identify and invest in the components that make these programs work better.