Program Development for Parenting Education

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Evaluation Author:	Molly Learner
Evaluation Subject:	Single parents in XYZ apartment complex
Evaluation Description:	Parents are trying to be self-sufficient and they want to work, have good child care and be good parents.

Issue Statement:

Parents need to work and must make the transition to working full time and balancing that with being parents.

Stakeholders:

People who parent children, Community youth workers, City/county officials, social services

Goal:

By 10-15-98, participants in Wake Extension parenting series will develop parenting skills among parents in XYZ apartment complex

Objective:

Parents in XYZ apartment complex will develop new support networks to improve by 10-98 their parenting skills. Objective #2. Parents in XYZ complex will develop better communication skills with their adolescent children by the time school starts in the Fall.

Plan Evaluation:

Your responses are weighted towards a quantitative objective, therefore you may be interested in a quantitative measure for your evaluation. Quantitative measures take counts and are reported in the outcomes as numbers. This is usually quantitative (quantity) documenting numbers. For quantitative process evaluation you might assess not only the number of people who attend but how their composition (age, race, or economic class) represents the composition of your community. You might also measure if you did what you said you would do. This method also assesses participant satisfaction. Process evaluation measures how well the process is working.

Interventions

Delivery Methods:
6-week session for 2 hours each,Parent education group,Community forum,Interagency support,

Experiential methods:
method demonstration

Reinforcement methods:
poster,home study kit,

Integrative methods:
forum,institute,buzz group,

Other methods:
bulletin board

Report Outline:

Parents need strategies to use with their children when there is little time to spare. Working parents face challenges each day in deciding how best to balance work and family.

Parents in the XYZ apartment complex were concerned about their children and the lack of parental supervision while they were at work. In addition, they needed strategies to use so children would learn to behave in acceptable manners.

A series of activities were planned for an intensive parenting program. Poster and bulletin boards provided positive images. Parents were taught to conduct family meetings and children and parents were guided through this process. Families also learned alternative ways to spend quality time together such as shopping, fishing and taking walks.

As a follow-up to the learning sessions, a focus group interview with their communication and with their extended family as well as with their children.

etc.

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