Parenting Milesotone: Grant Given For Parenting Education In Oregon Community College

A $25,000 grant has been awarded to Southwestern Oregon Community College by the Oregon Community Foundation to build ties Pathways to Positive Parenting Hub and local health organizations, local media reported. The grant will allow the college to link parenting education and health providers.

Southwestern Oregon Community College was also awarded another $50,000 by the same foundation so that the college can support Pathways to Positive Learning with regards to parenting education as well, reported The World. The programs will be implemented in the counties of Coos and Curry.

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Parenting Initiative In Oregon

The Oregon Community Foundation has Oregon Parenting Education Collaborative. According to the foundation's website, the parenting education collaborative is a multiyear grant program that backs up parenting education programs. This was launched in May 2010 and is said to be composed of class series, workshops, home visits and family events.

Currently, they have 15 parenting education hubs spanning 29 counties in Oregon and Siskiyou County in California. According to the Oregon Parenting Education Collaborative's website, its mission is to "support delivery of high quality parenting education programs and to support collaborative efforts to strengthen regional parenting education systems through coordination and planning."

Parenting As A Priority

Meanwhile, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is seeking a national framework for uniform access to the "best evidence-based strategies that support parents who need help," according to Science Daily. The report, called Parenting Matters, is 400 pages in length.

"We are calling to make parenting a priority," Boston College developmental psychologist Eric Dearing was quoted as saying. Dearing is a report co-author on the National Academies-convened Committee on Supporting the Parents of Young Children. The report, which Dearing called a "blueprint" for an eventual national framework, zeroed in on parents with children aged eight years old and under.