Do you provide parenting education to parents and caregivers? Whether you are a parenting educator or coach, or a perinatal provider like a doula, midwife, childbirth educator, or lactation counselor, or a provider of care for children (pediatrician, preschool teacher or childcare provider) who gets asked parenting questions, the resources on this page are for you!
National Parenting Education Network (NPEN) is a national organization that promotes the field of parenting education and encourages information sharing, professional development and networking opportunities for individuals who educate and support parents.
Central Coast Parenting Education Network (CCPEN), forming now, is an organization dedicated to facilitating connection and collaboration among parenting educators and perinatal providers (focusing on Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito Counties), to promote and normalize parenting education on in the Central Coast area.
Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experience (HOPE), based out of Tufts Medical Center, the HOPE National Resource Center offers trainings, resources, and research centered around the HOPE framework and positive childhood experiences.
PACES Connection (Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences) is a social network that recognizes the impact of a wide variety of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in shaping adult behavior and health, and that promotes trauma-informed and resilience-building practices and policies in all families, organizations, systems and communities. They support communities to accelerate the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences to solve our most intractable problems.
National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) is the oldest (1938) nonprofit, nonpartisan, multidisciplinary professional association focused solely on family research, practice, and education.
Nurturings provides resources, training and support for independent professionals and community-based peer leaders. They are committed to sharing free and low-cost, research-based resources that help us all work together to nurture parents. They use small group methods that bring parents together to discuss, share and learn to use effective parenting skills that promote healthy parent-child relationships and serve as a source of strength and encouragement for parents.