Parenting

We all want to be the best parents we can be. This booklet helps you to recognize how things in your past, such as how you were raised, can help you parent or can get in the way and make it hard for you to be the kind of parent you want to be. Some adults have pasts that can haunt them. Parents need care and support too. In this booklet, you will also find strategies for both you and your children to be stronger, happier and healthier. This resource has phone numbers, cell phone Apps, ideas and websites that may be helpful to you or someone else you know who is a caregiver for children including step-parents, teenage parents, grandparents, relatives and other caring adults.

Connected Parents, Connected Kids is a safety card designed for parents that health care providers can distribute as part of universal education. In addition to providing safety resources for women, this tool also functions as a prompt for health care providers to discuss Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the impact on parenting. The safety card offers supportive messages and strategies for positive parenting to prevent intergenerational transmission of ACEs.

The Involved Father and Gender Equity project was a collaborative effort between the White Ribbon Campaign and Dad Central. The study explored the positive roles that fathers, organizations working with diverse fathers, and the fatherhood sector in Ontario in general can play in promoting gender equality, healthy, equal relationships, and ending violence against women in all its forms. The project also sought to understand how organizations, communities, and those working in the fatherhood sector in Ontario might better understand father involvement as a method for promoting gender equality.

When foster parents decide to care for a child, it’s often impossible to know all of the facts about the child’s history. The experiences of foster children are complicated, and, especially when domestic violence has or is occurring—it can be tough for a foster parent to know how to handle it with their new child. For foster parents, reaching out to a biological parent can sometimes provide a window into the child’s past, as well as their future.

The Amazing Brain series of booklets is designed to educate parents and caregivers about early brain development, the effects of trauma on the brain, and the potential for the brain to heal and grow in order to prevent the physical, mental, behavioral, and cognitive effects of early trauma. The Institute of Safe Families has created four “Amazing Brain” booklets, written at a fifth grade level, to educate parents about brain development. Pediatricians can use these resources with Anticipatory Guidance. Child-serving organizations can also use them with their constituents. These booklets are being used throughout the U.S. and Canada.

The Amazing Brain series of booklets is designed to educate parents and caregivers about early brain development, the effects of trauma on the brain, and the potential for the brain to heal and grow in order to help to prevent the physical, mental, behavioral, and cognitive effects of early trauma. The Institute of Safe Families has created four “Amazing Brain” booklets, written at a fifth-grade level, to educate parents about brain development. Pediatricians can use these resources with Anticipatory Guidance. Child-serving organizations can also use them with their constituents. These booklets are being used throughout the U.S. and Canada.

NAMLE and our partner, Trend Micro created a parent’s guide to assist families in starting media literacy conversations at home. We focus on one simple piece of advice: teach your kids to ask questions. With real-life examples of conversations that may come up at home, the guide provides parents with some simple ways to encourage critical thinking at home.

Focusing on the impact of domestic violence on children has often been synonymous with a “failure to protect” approach to mothers who are domestic violence survivors. As strengths based work with families becomes more prevalent, the research on protective capacities of domestic violence survivors as parents becomes more important to supporting a shift in policy and practice-from “failure to protect” to domestic violence-informed. This briefing explores some of the research that demonstrates the protective capacities of adult survivors and their implications for policy and practice.

Tips, tools, and insights for strengthening a father’s communication, influence, and bond with their daughter and/or stepdaughter.

AALBC.com is the oldest, largest, and most frequently visited web site dedicated to books by, or about, people of African descent. Started in 1997, AALBC.com is a widely recognized source of information about Black authors.
Mission & Goals
- Promote literature and literary nonfiction from all over the world to readers of all backgrounds
- Satisfy readers’ book buying needs
- Serve as a resource and platform for aspiring and established writers
- Provide a variety of book production services including book printing and manuscript editing
- Provide a forum for the exchange of opinions on Black literature and culture (aalbc.com/tc)
- Foster an appreciation for reading and literacy
- Assess and report on the reading habits of African Americans
- Advocate for web equality and independence

A selection of books and articles that discuss racism and oppression, curated by the Oakland Public Library for parents and educators.