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Supporting the Parents of Young Children

Completed

Regional focus

North America

Topics

A committee assessed the research on parenting and strategies for supporting parenting in the United States. It identified parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents’ use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services.

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