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The U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect in 1991 cited home visiting programs as its "single most important recommendation" to prevent child abuse and neglect. Working with families before ineffective parenting practices begin is essential to family well-being.
Home visits offer a way to reach isolated or high risk families and provide them with assistance in developing parenting, home management, and life skills.

 A parent at home with a FSC Advocate
The parent advocates are paraprofessional advisors--usually mothers returning to work after raising their own children--who visit families in their home and connect them with such services as prenatal care, food banks, federal and state welfare programs, English classes, and health care.

This program is a "parent to parent" approach in close collaboration with multi-disciplinary professional teams.

The majority of families served by FSC Parent Advocates are living in extreme poverty with barely adequate housing and few or no physical possessions. Home visits provide an opportunity to work with a family in their own home environment. This allows the parent advocate to learn first hand about the condition of life for the parent and child.

Referral to the parent advocate program comes through a clinician at FSC, Utah State Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS), or the Jordan School District FACT team.

Links to Other Parenting Resources

Parents as Teachers National Center
http://www.patnc.org/forparents-additionalresources.asp

Learning For Better Living
http://agpublications.tamu.edu/pubs/scal/

National Crime Prevention Council
http://www.ncpc.org/ncpc1.htm

Family Utah
http://www.familyutah.com/

U.S. Department of Education Spanish Resources
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OIIA/spanishresources/

Bilingual Brochures for Parents
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/miscpubs/flame/

The National Parenting Education Network
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/npen/

Parenting the Preschooler
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/flp/pp/

Spanish and English Parenting Articles
http://www.littlechiles.com/parenting.htm

Parenting Education
http://www.cyfernet.org/parent/education.html

Center for Effective Parenting--Links for Educators
http://www.parenting-ed.org/educatrs.htm

Center for Effective Parenting--Parenting Information Handouts
http://www.parenting-ed.org/handouts.htm

AACAP Facts for Families
http://www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/

Center for Effective Parenting--Spanish Handouts
http://www.parenting-ed.org/spanish.htm

Child Development--Spanish Resources
http://www.nncc.org/Child.Dev/sp.child.dev.page.html