CEBC Webinar with Dr. Richard Barth & Kyla Liggett-Creel "Parenting Programs for Children 0-8: What is the Evidence and What Seem to be the Common Components?"

In the United States, more than 800,000 child welfare involved families may receive parent education each year. Parent education programs are commonly implemented but not commonly evaluated. Relatively few are evidence based. This is especially true for parenting programs targeting families with young children. In this Webinar, we will provide evidence that manualized parenting interventions tend to have common elements. This webinar will describe some of those elements as well as common tools used to teach families. Considerations that may help child welfare agencies make decisions about whether to endeavor to institute manualized parent education programs or to try to use the common elements as a framework for intervention will be discussed.

By the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify and describe current evidence based parent education models being used in child welfare.
• Identify common elements used in parent training for families with children under the age of 8 (with recognition of some differences for parents of children 0-2 and 4-8).
• Describe the evidence behind the identified parent education models.
• Describe the difference between manualized parent education programs and common elements-based approaches and consider next steps in developing effective parent education programs in their agencies.

Richard P. Barth, PhD, MSW is the Dean School of Social Work, University of Maryland. He has also served as a chaired professor at UC Berkeley and University of North Carolina. He has authored many books, chapters, and articles on children’s services practice, programs, policy and research. Most recently his writing has focused on parent training and its intersection with child welfare and understanding the common elements of practice. He has been the recipient of many awards; such as the Frank Breul Prize for Excellence in Scholarship in 1986, a Fulbright Scholar in 1990 and 2006 as well as many others. Mostly recently, he is the North American Council on Adoptable Children 2012 Friends of Children award winner. He is a Fellow and President of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. He has served as a lecturer and consultant to numerous countries, states, and universities. He has testified before Congressional and state government sub-committees about processes and outcomes of child welfare services.

Kyla Liggett-Creel, LCSW-C is a Clinical Instructor at the School of Social Work, University of Maryland. She has served as a Senior Clinical Social Worker at the Center for Infant Studies for three years. She was previously a Supervising Clinical Social worker at Kennedy Krieger Institute for nine years (1999-2008). She has presented for Child Welfare agencies across the State of Maryland on issues related to trauma, attachment and development. She has recently developed the curriculum and intervention strategy for a preventive parenting intervention (“Parent University”) used in West Baltimore’s Promise Heights community. Currently, she is working with the Keep project offering behavior management education to foster parents in the State of Maryland. She is a third year doctoral student at the School of Social work, University of Maryland, Baltimore. Her doctoral work focuses on early childhood development, trauma and child welfare.