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Cultural Competence in Prevention Services
Resources addressing the role of cultural values in parenting practices and ways to improve cultural competence in prevention services when working with diverse families, including State and local examples.
Introduction to Cultural Competence: A Training Tool
FRIENDS National Resource Center For Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (2006)
Explains strategies for assessing cultural competency and improving the ethnic and linguistic responsiveness of family support programs.
Promoting Healthy Parenting Practices Across Cultural Groups: A CDC Research Brief
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2008)
Examines the ways that parents from five different cultural groups respond to children's behavior and their views of desirable or undesirable parenting practices. The study's results may help parenting programs develop more culturally-competent support services for parents.
Family and Community Strengthening Publications
Bridging Refugee Youth & Children's Services
Links to publications and briefs about culturally competent practice with refugee and immigrant families. The resources address child development, parenting, family support, and child abuse prevention.
Cultural Influences on Parenting (PDF - 2,048 KB)
Spicer (2010)
Summarizes a survey conducted by ZERO TO THREE that examines the importance of racial and ethnic differences in parenting beliefs, understanding of developmental milestones, expectations for school readiness, and influences on parenting.
Grants to Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and Migrant Programs for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Programs
Children's Bureau Discretionary Grant Cluster
Presents site visit reports from programs funded to provide financial support to selected Tribes, Tribal organizations, and migrant programs that offer child abuse prevention programs in their communities.
Promoting Healthy Parenting Practices Across Cultural Groups: A CDC Research Brief (PDF - 6,440 KB)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2008)
Examines the ways that parents from five different cultural groups respond to children's behavior and their views of desirable or undesirable parenting practices. The study's results may help parenting programs develop more culturally-competent support services for parents.
Raising Children in a New Country: A Toolkit for Working With Newcomer Parents (PDF - 387 KB)
Bridging Refugee Youth & Children's Services (2005)
Includes useful resources on effective ways to support refugee families settling in a new country and coping with parenting issues in a new cultural context.
Refugees and the U.S. Child Welfare System: Background Information for Service Providers (PDF - 324 KB)
Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services (2006)
A practical resource for refugee resettlement staff to learn more about the child welfare system and how child welfare service providers can increase partnerships with refugee resettlement staff to improve services to children and families.
Voices of Preventive Services: Perspectives of Clients and Workers (PDF - 123 KB)
Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service & Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. (2007)
Uses interviews of Hispanic families' and their workers' experience with preventive services to derive 11 recommendations for developing and implementing more culturally and linguistically competent preventive services.
State and local examples
Adapting Trauma Interventions for Refugee Families (PDF - 543 KB)
Gewirtz, Mohammad, Orieny, & Yaylaci
The Dialogue, 7(2), 2011
Discusses how children may be impacted by the traumas of their refugee parents and how evidence-based parent training intervention can improve parenting. The article describes a Minneapolis–St. Paul program that has been working with Somali and Oromo mothers to modify and pilot the Parenting Through Change program.
Culture and Parenting: A Guide for Delivering Parenting Curriculums to Diverse Families (PDF - 289 KB)
University of California Cooperative Extension (2006)
A guide for practitioners on how to evaluate the cultural sensitivity of programs and services and how to make their parenting program more culturally sensitive.
Hmong Cultural Guide: Building Capacity to Strengthen the Well-Being of Immigrant Families and Their Children: A Prevention Strategy (PDF - 157 KB)
Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (2010)
Reviews Hmong parenting practices, parent and child nurturing and attachment styles, expectations of child development, parental attitudes in seeking health care for their children, and parental attitudes toward emotional behavior and mental health.
Home Visiting Services for Young Latino Families: Challenges and Choices (PDF - 373 KB)
King County Children and Family Commission (2010)
Presents results from a research effort in King County, Washington, to examine the needs of the growing population of young Latino families and considers the effectiveness of home visiting services for these families.