TY - JOUR
T1 - Partnering with Faith-Based Organizations to Promote Positive Parenting
T2 - Example and Lessons Learned
AU - Isabel, Martha
AU - Morris, Amanda Sheffield
AU - Emerson, Amy
AU - Jespersen, Jens E.
AU - StillerTitchener, Kelly
N1 - Funding Information:
Ongoing Leaders felt fully supported by the support from Educare team throughout the Educare implementation of the literacy Beyond the events. Leaders also appreciated Walls that Educare fully supported their efforts to customize their events as a way to meet the preferences and needs of their churches and the families attending the events.
Funding Information:
We thank the George Kaiser Family Foundation for its generous financial support toward the implementation and evaluation of Tulsa's faith-based literacy initiative. We thank Abby Lehman, Tulsa Educare's community outreach manager, for her assistance with recruitment and data collection during the evaluation study. The following members of Dr. Amanda Sheffield Morris's Child and Adolescent Development Lab assisted with data collection and/or analysis: Stephen Ballard, Lizette Merchán, Ada Harwood, Kelly Stiller Titchener, Diane Dudley, Jens Jespersen, and Therese Hubble
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Extension Journal Inc
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We evaluated an early literacy initiative implemented in partnership with faith-based organizations. Heads of the initiative train church leaders to host monthly literacy events during which those leaders educate parents about child development and model dialogic reading behaviors while caregivers and their children follow along. A survey and focus group sessions with caregivers and church leaders indicated high satisfaction with the initiative, a reported increase in literacy-promoting practices among caregivers, and perceived gains in children's literacy skills attributed to participation in the literacy events. Extension educators can use or adapt elements of the initiative to promote positive parenting practices and early literacy.
AB - We evaluated an early literacy initiative implemented in partnership with faith-based organizations. Heads of the initiative train church leaders to host monthly literacy events during which those leaders educate parents about child development and model dialogic reading behaviors while caregivers and their children follow along. A survey and focus group sessions with caregivers and church leaders indicated high satisfaction with the initiative, a reported increase in literacy-promoting practices among caregivers, and perceived gains in children's literacy skills attributed to participation in the literacy events. Extension educators can use or adapt elements of the initiative to promote positive parenting practices and early literacy.
KW - community-based interventions
KW - early literacy
KW - faithbased partnership
KW - outreach strategies
KW - parenting programs
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85163345096&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.34068/JOE.58.02.22
DO - 10.34068/JOE.58.02.22
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85163345096
SN - 1077-5315
VL - 58
JO - Journal of Extension
JF - Journal of Extension
IS - 2
M1 - 22
ER -