What has NPEN accomplished?
Over the past year, NPEN has established a common set of principles and a creative leadership and organizational structure that is inclusive and embedded. This means that NPEN takes the position that one goal of parenting education is to provide access to parenting education resources for all parents and recognizes that parenting education is embedded in a large number of organizations and fields, all of which are important in addressing NPEN’s goals. NPEN forged a successful collaboration with Family Support American (FSA) by organizing a parenting track for FSA’s Spring 2000 Conference. Participants reports that this track was one of the highlights of the conference. A Parenting Education fact sheet was written for FSA to help family support programs develop a parenting education component that would meet the needs of their parents. NPEN is working to identify parenting professionals and parenting programs in states across the nation in the effort to begin the networking between thes
