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Family Care Curriculum

A Train-the-Trainer Parenting Model

Families experiencing homelessness and those living in poverty may experience barriers such as limited economic and social supports that can compromise parenting capacities. Family Care Curriculum (FCC) is a parenting program that combines best practices of attachment and trauma theory, and principles of Effective Black Parenting and self-care. The program is designed for lay professionals, social workers, case managers, and clinicians to learn how to help parents become more receptive, sensitive, and responsive to their children’s developmental, emotional, and cultural needs, even in the midst of experiencing homelessness and/or other stressors.

“I would say that Family Care provided an opportunity for our moms to engage with each other and explore different aspects of their own parenting style as well as aspects of how they were parented. The group discussions were powerful and elicited a range of emotions as mothers were able to confront the impact of how they were parented as it relates to how they parent their children.” Marilyn, Trainer. Lutheran Settlement, January 2012

A Train-the-Trainer Parenting Model

Developed by Sandy Sheller and Karen Hudson, FCC is a six-week curriculum with suggested three weeks of workshops to follow based on topics selected by parent participants. It helps parents learn about themselves and their family histories in the context of learning to parent their children while meeting their developmental needs, so that they can become more consistently sensitive and receptive to their children and their needs.

FCC Goal

•    Addresses gap in parent training
•    Looks at family through culturally appropriate lens
•    Incorporates principles from Best Practices
•    Challenges the common myth about “spoiling the baby”
•    Designed to alter developmental pathways of at-risk families
•    Is brief, effective, affordable, coherent
•    Creates a new paradigm shift across cultures