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Parenting Children with Health Issues: Essential Tools, Tips & Tactics for Raising Kids with Chronic Ilness, Medical Conditions and Special Healthcare Needs

Based on the Love and Logic approach, this book is written for parents, caregivers and medical professionals. Learn essential parenting skills to raise children to be as happy and healthy as possible. Increase the odds of medical adherence, effectively talk with children about their health challenges, avoid power struggles over self-care issues, and create loving, respectful relationships.

Just in Time Parenting

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!

Military Family Learning Network Webinars

Here are a listing of a number of recorded webconferences on helping military families. Check them out!

for Members and CFLEs ONLY

Together for a Better Education (Juntos para una mejor educación) Program

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.

Sex Ed Film - 1957 "As Boys Grow"
from Zippy Weekly Videos

Sex Ed Film - 1957 "As Boys Grow"

In last week's film, we watched "Molly Grows Up" a film about menarche. This week's video is a boys' film that may also be useful in the classroom to demonstrate sexuality education in historical perspective. "As Boys Grow" is a film from 1957 explaining the wonders of puberty to boys. 

from The WIC Program

Effects of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC): A Review of Recent Research

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Molly Grows Up (1953)
from Zippy Weekly Videos

Molly Grows Up (1953)

In this 1953 short film, a young lady named Molly prepares for and experiences menarche. This film shows how times have changed -and also how some things will never change. Throughout time, the onset of menstruation is a girl's biological rite of passage. Good education helps to ensure that the experience is positive and not scary.

Ft Hood Soldier returns home, photo by Jonathan D. Blundell
from Family Focus on Military Families

Returning home: What we know about the reintegration of deployed service members into their families and communities

by Lydia I. Marek, Ph.D., LMFT, Family and Community Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech, W. Glenn Hollingsworth, M.A., Carissa D’Aniello, M.A., Kathleen O’Rourke, M.A., Donna-Jean P. Brock, M.A., Lyn Moore, M.A., John L. Butler VI, M.S., Jing Zhang, M.S., Bradford Wiles, M.A.

As nearly one half of all military personnel are parents, and almost two million children have a military parent. With the number of returning service members increasing, they and their families must now reassemble their lives after each member has experienced profound change.

Drug Facts: Shatter the Myths Booklet

How does underage drinking correlate with adult alcoholism? What preventable problem injures 1900 U.S. teens per year? Which prescription pain medications were involved in more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined? The National Institute on Drug Abuse in the U.S. answers these questions and more in a free online booklet in PDF format called "Drug Facts: Shatter the Myths"

Head Start Children, Families, and Programs: Present and Past Data from FACES

Using data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), this report for the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides a portrait of children entering Head Start for the first time in fall 2009, as well as of their family backgrounds, and the classrooms and programs that serve them. The report also offers comparisons across the past decade of the Head Start program to delineate trends and changes in the population served and the services provided.