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These links are provided as resources for agricultural information and do not imply endorsement of opinions, products or services by University of Missouri Extension
University of Missouri Extension has a wide variety of programs. Educational Programs to reach diverse parent audiences include those pertaining to:
Remarried families Parents of Teens
Employed Parents Children's Learning Differences
Single Parents Multicultural Parents
Divorcing Parents Parents with Young Children
Children of Divorce Grandparents raising Grandchildren
Fathers
Programs for Parents
Children: Ages and Stages: Information is presented on developmentally appropriate expectations and how you can understand your child through structured experiences.
Understanding Teenagers: This workshop focuses on understanding the changes experienced by today's adolescents.
Successful Single Parenting: Whether single by choice, as the result of the other parent's death, or due to divorce, single parenting can be challenging.
Employed Parents: This workshop provides activities to help employed parents identify their sources of frustration and satisfaction, consider how these affect their parenting, and explore positive approaches to make improvements.
Family Rituals in Remarried Families: Participants will learn strategies to create new rituals while they also honor the past.
Positive Guidance and Discipline: This program explores parenting styles as well as specific prevention and intervention tools.
Divorcing Families: This lesson covers the issues of divorce as a process, talking with children about divorce, possible effects on children at different ages, and discussion of working cooperatively with an ex spouse.
Children of Divorce: This interactive program uses story telling, imagination, and writing and drawing for younger children.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: This program focuses on resources available to support grandparents in this parenting role.
Raising Responsible Children: This workshop provides activities that can help parents to develop a responsibility game plan.
Fathers Today: This program is designed to provide men with new perspectives on their fathering role and how they can be more involved in their children's lives.
Building Strong Families for Missouri
When 90 of 114 Missouri counties identified building strong families as a local program priority, University of Missouri Extension responded with this seven session program for working families with dependants.
Program content includes:
Identifying Strengths Communicating
Managing Stress Child Self Care
Food and Fitness Working
Setting Goals Parenting
Alert Consumer Balancing Work and Family
Spending Healthy House
Self Esteem
Contact your local University of Missouri Extension Offices for More Information on these programs
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University of Missouri Extension Daviess/Caldwell County daviessco@missouri.edu This page was last updated February 14, 2007 |
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