Wisconsin Family Impact Seminar #3
Can Government Promote Competent Parenting?
January 26, 1994
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Featured Speakers
Dave Riley, Professor of Child & Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Extension
Some Principles For Designing Effective Parenting Education/Support Programs
Jude Morse, Executive Director, Children’s Trust Fund
How Can We Apply What We Know About Competent Parenting?
Sally Lundeen, Director of the UW-Milwaukee Silver Spring Community Nursing Center, Family Resource Center
How Does a Milwaukee Family Resource Center Promote Competent Parenting?
Heather Weiss, Director of the Harvard Family Research Project and Senior Research Associate and Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education
What Do We Know About the Effectiveness of Programs and Policies to Support Parents?
Additional Chapters/Materials
Introduction, by the Wisconsin Family Impact Seminars
Innovative Policies and Programs that Promote Competent Parenting and Support Families, by Karen Bogenschneider
What Parent Education and Family Support Efforts has Wisconsin Invested In?, by Kari Morgan
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