The Parenting Project: Healthy Children, Families, & Communities holds annual in-service events at Cornell University for parent educators and others who work with parents and children across New York State.

The in-service is a two-day event with networking opportunities, professional development workshops, and various academic presentations by Cornell faculty.

Upcoming In-service Events

The 2018 Parent Education In-service Event will be held on September 13th and 14th, 2018 at the Hilton Garden Inn Ithaca. The agenda and registration form are below:

2018 Parent Education In-Service Agenda
2018 Parent Education In-Service Registration Form

In the past, presentation topics have included maternal employment and child well-being, using news and social media to promote your county association, using a two generational approach to parent education, changing family forms in the U.S., and engaging low-income fathers.

Past In-service Events:

Parent Education In-Service, September 2018

Full Agenda: Parent Education In-Service Agenda, Day 1 & 2

Presentations:

• Adolescent Development (Valerie Reyna)
• Risk & Resilience in Adolescence (Julia Chapman)
• Project 2Gen Update / Community Café: Community Responses to the Opioid Epidemic (Anna Steinkraus, Laura Tach, & Elizabeth Day)
  • Handout: The Opioid Epidemic and Child Well-Being
  • Handout: A Two-Generation Approach to the Opioid Epidemic: State Policy Perspectives
• Strengths Based Communication (Janis Whitlock)
  • Handout: Family Strengths Activities
• Workshop: Group Facilitation Skills (Jutta Dotterweich)
• Opioid Epidemic & Rural School Districts  (John Sipple)
• Panel Discussion: ACEs and Parenting Education: Trauma Informed Practice  (Jackie Spencer, Julika von Stackelberg, & DeAnna Croteau)

parent education in-service, october 2017

Full Agenda: Parent Education In-Service Agenda

Presentations:

• Parent Education and New Community Collaborations: A Panel Discussion
  • CCE-Tompkins: Family & Community Development, Parenting Education, Nutrition Education
  • Family Resource Centers of Tioga County
  • Healthy Children, Healthy Families: Parents making a difference! And Adopting Healthy Habits

Parent education in-service, september 2016

Full Agenda: Parent Education In-Service Agenda, Day 1 & 2

Presentations:

• Family Life in an Era of Mass Incarceration
• Workshop: The Power of Community Cafés
• Workshop: role of Social Media in Outreach Efforts
• Enhancing the Community Impact of School-based Health Centers in Rural New York via Parenting Education: A Pilot Study
• Autism Spectrum Disorders: Discussion of Gap Between Research and Available interventions

Parent Education In-service, September 2015

Full Agenda: Parent Education In-Service Agenda, Day 1 & 2

Presentations:

• Parenting in the Digital Age: Strategies & Recommendations for Promoting Healthy Technology and Media Use (Eliza Lathrop Cook & Kimberly Kopko)
• Custodial Grandparent Families: Research, Implications, and Intervention (Rachel Dunifon)
• The Toddler Talk Project: Facilitating Cognitive Development in Social Context (Michael Goldstein & Eliza Lathrop Cook)
• Workshop: Positive Discipline Strategies (Melissa Enns)
• Adolescent Well-being amidst Family Instability: Demographic Trends and Family Processes (Laura Tach)

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