Extension Just in Time Parenting (JITP) is an outreach innovation that brings high quality, research-based information to families at the time it can be most useful and make the biggest difference in their lives. We provide Just in Time Parenting newsletters, Videos, Webinars, Online resources, Email Newsletters, as well as support materials to assist in marketing, distribution, and evaluation. Please use these resources!
The “Juntos” program (pronounced: Who-n-tos) provides Latino parents and youth with knowledge and resources to prevent 8-12th grade students from dropping out and to encourage families to work together to gain access to college. This experiential program is taught in either English or Spanish and meets for 2½ hours once a week for six weeks in the evenings. Juntos also uses success coaches and college age-mentors to provide weekly afterschool clubs and activities with the target students before and after the 6-week program. The program brings together partners from Cooperative Extension, high schools and local community colleges, youth and their families, and college-age mentors to learn how to succeed in school.
Part of our preparation for NCFR's 75th anniversary conference in 2013 will be the unveiling of the NCFR History project. One of our staff members called my attention to one of the conference panelists from the very first conference in 1938 and showed me an online book of his (scary) ideas. If I hadn't seen some of his work in print, I would have never believed it.
brain imaging study finds evidence of basis for caregiving impulse
March 27, 2012
According to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and in Germany, Italy, and Japan, distinct patterns of activity - which may indicate a predisposition to care for infants - appear in the brains of adults who view an image of an infant face.
