(Name-mce) ListServ Los Ninos Bien Educados Feb 26-Mar 2 Los Angeles CA

[Anselmo Villanueva]

Instructor Training Workshop To Learn To Deliver CICC's Los Ninos Bien
Educados Program

Los Angeles, CA - February 26 - March 2, 2007 (Corrected Dates)

Dear Colleagues:

This intensive, five-day workshop prepares you and/or your staff with
the training, materials and certification to lead Los Ninos Bien
Educados classes and seminars in your community. Join the more than
1,000 instructors nationwide that have already been trained to deliver
this evidence-based national model program for parents of
Latino-American children!

This workshop is for any professional or paraprofessional human
service worker or educator whose work involves helping or educating
Latino-American children and families, or supervising those who work
with these children and families. This includes non-Latino-American
workers and supervisors.

In teaching participants how to conduct parenting classes and seminars
in the Los Ninos Bien Educados Program, the workshop also enhances the
cultural competencies of the participants and of the organizations
they represent. So there is much for you and your community to gain
from this workshop.

We look forward to your participation in this workshop.

Warmly,

Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.
CICC Founder and Executive Director
Program Description

CICC's Los Ninos Bien Educados Parenting Program:

Diversity within Cultural Diversity: Special Challenges, Special Opportunities

The Los Ninos Bien Educados Program is built around the value of
raising children to be "bien educados," i.e., well-behaved in a social
and personal sense, as well as educated in an academic sense. It
explores parental definitions of what constitutes "bien educados" and
looks at how these definitions get expressed in traditional family,
gender role and age expectations of children. From this cultural
framework, it teaches parents a wide variety of strategies and skills
for promoting and maintaining those child behaviors that they define
as constituting "bien educados" and for reducing those that they see
as reflecting "mal educados."

Developed especially for Spanish-speaking and Latino- origin parents,
this parenting skill building program is respectful of the unique
traditions and customs of Latino families and is sensitive to the
variety of adjustments that are made as Latino families acculturate to
life in the United States.

Los Ninos Bien Educados is based on child rearing research with Latino
families, the recommendations of Latino educators and mental health
authorities, and adaptations of parenting skills that have been found
to be helpful for parents of all ethnic and social class backgrounds.

Parents are oriented to consider the potential causes of "mal
educados." This includes teaching basic child development information
to assist parents in arriving at age-appropriate expectations.
Information about child abuse and child abuse laws helps broaden
understandings of what is considered proper and improper parental
behavior in the United States.

All skills are taught with an awareness of the potential cultural
conflicts that might emerge from their use and with sensitivity to the
life circumstances of low income Latino families. They are taught with
the use of "dichos," or Spanish sayings, to help nest them in a
culturally and linguistically familiar context. Amusing drawings of
family life also enliven the teaching of skills and concepts, and all
sessions end with a "platica" where parents take leadership roles in
solving common problems.

The program is designed to be taught in Spanish or English and
consists of 12 three-hour training sessions. Its initial field testing
in the 1980's was with newly immigrated Latino families and it was
highly successful.

More recent studies continue to confirm its effectiveness. Los Ninos
Bien Educados is now being used nationwide with a variety of Latino-
Americans. It has become the centerpiece of parent involvement
programs in numerous school districts, as well as serving as part of
drop-out prevention projects. It is also being used by a variety of
social service agencies for family preservation and unification
purposes, and by hospitals, churches and mental health clinics.

The following is a listing of the full content of the Los Ninos Bien
Educados Program, which is customarily taught in 12 three-hour
training classes.

Culturally-Specific Parenting Strategies
Defining Bien and Mal Educados
Traditional Family and Gender Roles
Adjusting and Acculturating to the U.S.A.
General Parenting Strategies
Social Learning Ideas and Pinpointing and Counting Behavior
Parental Functions and Responsibilities
Family Rules Are Like A Coin, and Family Rule Guidelines
The Causes of Child Behavior and Considering the Causes Before and After You Act
Basic Parenting Skills Taught in a Culturally-Sensitive Manner, Using
Latino-American Language Expressions and Dichos
Effective Praise
Mild Social Disapproval
Ignoring
Time Out
The Point System
First/Then
Show and Tell
Family Chat or Platica
Special Program Topics
Child Abuse Laws and Proper Parenting

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Workshop Leader
Dr. Martha L. Lopez

This five day intensive workshop will be lead by CICC's Senior
National Trainer-of-Instructors, Dr. Martha L. Lopez. Dr. Lopez
received her doctorate in Multicultural Education from the University
of San Francisco and Masters degree from California State University
at Fresno. She has been on the staff of the University of California
Cooperative Extension for over 30 years. She is widely recognized for
her expertise in parenting skills for Hispanics, as her status with
CICC reflects. Throughout her career she has led numerous instructor
training workshops in CICC's Los Ninos Bien Educados program, as well
as running many classes for parents. Dr. Lopez brings a unique
perspective to her work with families at risk since she herself was
raised in a migrant farmworker family.

Workshop Enrollment

Workshop Enrollees receive the entire Instructor Kit of training
materials (instructor manual, instructional transparencies, parent
handbook, CD on generating and maintaining classes, etc.) which itself
is valued at $415

The workshop enrollment fee is $925, which includes the Kit and
certification to conduct the program in your community, agency or
school.

Call or email Gary Oltman at CICC for more information on trainings or
hosting this training:

Tel: 800.325.2422
Email: gary at ciccparenting.org

Continuing Education Credits & Hours

All education, health, mental health, and social service
paraprofessionals and professionals are welcome to enroll.
Psychologists can receive 35 hours of continuing education credits, as
CICC is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer
continuing education credits. CICC maintains responsibility for the
program.

CICC is also an approved continuing education provider by the
California Board of Behavioral Sciences and the California Board of
Registered Nursing, Provider #14028.

Program Materials

The entire Instructor Kit can be purchased separately from the
workshop, as can its individual components, such as the Parent
Handbooks.

Click here to obtain the Kit or its components.

CICC also makes available a wide range of books and videos on Latino
American parenting and family life, which can also be directly
obtained.

Over 2,500 agencies, departments, schools, hospitals and religious
institutions have sent their staffs to be trained in a CICC instructor
workshop.

Bring a Workshop to Your Community

CICC can bring a Los Ninos Bien Educados instructor training workshop
to any community that would like to offer the program through its
school district, social services or health departments, or through any
combination of local institutions.

If a community or agency has at least 15 instructors that it would
want trained from one or more of its institutions, CICC can arrange to
have a national trainer travel to that community to conduct a workshop
when and where they would like it to be conducted.

CICC can also arrange to have instructor training workshops in its
Effective Black Parenting or Confident Parenting programs brought to
your community.

The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC) was founded in
1974 by Dr. Kerby T. Alvy and has grown to be one of the nation's
largest and most productive nonprofit parenting and parenting
education organizations. For more infomration about CICC's many
programs, activities, products and services, go to
www.ciccparenting.org, or call toll-free (800) 325-2422.

Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
11331 Ventura Blvd., #103
Studio City, California 91604
800-325-2422
ciccparenting at sbcglobal.net
http://www.ciccparenting.org

http://www.ciccparenting.org/LosNinosBienEdDesc.aspx

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