the Texas AgriLife Extension Service - Harris County
Programs
- Better Living for Texans
- Child Care
- Eldercare
- Expanded Nutrition Program
- Family Economics & Resource Management
- Nutrition, Diet & Health
- Parenting
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Parent Education
the Texas AgriLife Extension Service (TCE) through local Extension offices, community partners, and websites offers research–based parent education programs that help prospective parents, parents, grandparents, and caregivers deal with the challenging role of parenting. TCE offers a wide variety of parent education opportunities that enhance parental confidence by increasing parental knowledge, practices, and care giving skills.
Benefits of Participation
Positive parenting practices play an essential role in a child’s development and later life success. Research indicates that parents who are warm, responsive to their children’s needs, respectful, consistent, highly involved in all aspects of their children’s development, model appropriate behavior, and who provide firm, yet not overly harsh discipline, increase their children’s potential for success in life and reduce the risks for delinquent behavior during the adolescent and teen years.
Positive parenting practices in times of stress (such as financial hardship, divorce, or family illness) can often act as a buffer against such stressors and help build children’s coping and adjustment skills. In contrast, ineffective or dysfunctional parenting practices can lead to poor outcomes for children, including behavioral problems and diagnosed mental health conditions.
How Can I Participate?
Local Classes
the Texas AgriLife Extension Service Family and Consumer Sciences agents offer a variety of parent education learning opportunities from one–time programs to a face–to–face series covering a variety of parent education topics and issues.
Current Curriculums:
Strengthening Families is a nationally and internationally parenting and strengthening program.
It is designed to increase resilience & reduce risk factors for substance abuse, depression, violence and aggression, delinquency & school failure in high risk, 6-11 year-old children & their parents.
Become a Parent Educator Volunteer
Become a Parent Educator Volunteer with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service. Parent Educator Volunteers are local people who, with appropriate training, work with a Family and Consumer Sciences agents to teach, evaluate, or provide support services to the Texas AgriLife Extension Service Parent Education programs. There are many possibilities!
Parenting Alliance of Houston/Agency Collaboration
the Texas AgriLife Extension Service has a history of collaborating with other local, county, and state organizations and departments to provide parent education to needed populations.
Train–the–Trainer
the Texas AgriLife Extension Service specialists and Family and Consumer Sciences agents offer train–the–trainer parent education workshops on various research–based and best practice curriculums. Trainings are designed to give participants a comprehensive set of skills to effectively deliver parent education curriculum and evaluate their results.
Online Courses
Those interested in self–paced, online, learning classes should browse our online courses. Each online course has learning objectives, learning key assessments to help guide you through module concepts, slides with narration, printable fact sheets, and printable certificates for completing class requirements.
Contact
Abneshia Bradley, M.A.
County Extension Agent - Family and Consumer Sciences
3033 Bear Creek Drive
Houston, TX 77084
Phone: 281.855.5600
FAX: 281.855.5638
email: arbradley@ag.tamu.edu
Educational programs of the Texas AgriLife Extension Service are open to all people without regard to race, color, sex, disability, religion, age, or national origin. Individuals with disabilities requiring auxilary aids, services or accommodations in order to participate in Extension programs are encouraged to call 281.855.5600 to discuss specific needs.