Everyday Parenting

The Everyday Parenting Program is designed as a companion program for the Family Check-Up. When used together, parents who wish to improve their parenting and family management skills can work with their Family Check-Up provider to address those goals after completing the Family Check-Up.

This program is designed to follow the FCU components, but can be offered as a standalone service as well. The Everyday Parenting program is a research-based family management training program that addresses three main skill areas: supporting positive behavior, setting healthy limits, and building family relationships. The Everyday Parenting program can be used for guiding individual therapy, leading parent groups, and training counselors to utilize experiential and reflective techniques for working collaboratively with parents and caregivers of children and adolescents.

Key Sessions in the Everyday Parenting Model:

Positive Behavior Support

Parent requests and child cooperation
Parent praise for child cooperation
Behavior-change plans/incentives
Behavior-change plans/barriers

Limit Setting & Monitoring

Monitoring daily activities
SANE guidelines for limit setting
Proactive limit setting
Limit setting challenges/regulation

Relationship Building Skills

Negotiating conflict
Choosing solutions to family problems
Proactive positive routines
Shared family routines and activities

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“I find that the families love the Family Check-Up. The feedback is such an affirming experience—even when there are problems, they are so pleased to see the videos and hear about their strengths.”
– Karleen Preator Ph.D., Supervisor, Positive Behavior Support, Head Start / Pre-K Counts
“I have found that most of the families I’ve worked with really appreciate the connection we’ve made. That connection empowers them to make changes or just to have more confidence in their parenting.”
– Cynthia Milberger MSW, Supervisor, Positive Behavior Support, Head Start / Pre-K Counts
“Myself and my husband, we really like getting the information back because of the video clips you would take, there’s things about our own personality and what we do that we don’t even know we’re doing until you see yourself doing it…. I learned that I was more nurturing and patient than I thought I was.”
– Parent
“The feedback session was very positive. We always went through the positive things, this is really working out, and these are the areas that are a concern, and then things we could do about those… what ones were the most important in my priorities to work on and the kind of steps we could take toward those.”
– Parent

The Family Check-Up
The Family Check-Up is a evidence-based intervention, promoting family strengths to address child adjustment problems, improve family management, and communication.
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Everyday Parenting
Everyday Parenting builds on the Family Check-Up by empowering parents to effectively manage their child’s behavior and create healthy relationships.
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PlayReadVIP
PlayReadVIP is an evidence-based parenting program that uses videotaped interactions to help parents play, read, and engage with their children in ways that support their development.
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