The document outlines 10 principles of effective parent education programs. The principles state that parent education must recognize each family's unique needs and strengths, build on parents' experiences and understanding of child safety, be culturally competent, involve parents in the program development, utilize clear models and practices, and guide parents to self-reflect on their parenting skills. The overarching goal of all parent education is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children.

1. PRINCIPLES OF
PARENT EDUCATION

2.  PARENT EDUCATION and suppor t
are essent ial components of chi ld
wel fare services which take
di fferent forms for di fferent parents
and vary depending upon the
parents needs.
 The overarching goal of al l parent
educat ion is to ensure the safety
and wel lbeing of the chi ld.

3. 1. All parent education programs must
recognize and build on parent’s
understanding of safety and risk
related factors: All forms of parent
education must incorporate the
identification and recognition of caregiver
behaviors, beliefs, values, and attitudes
that positively shape and ensure the
safety, healthy development, and stability
of their children.

4. 2. Every parent and family is unique:
Every family has its own customs and
values and therefore the educators must
tell the needs of parents accordingly.

5. 3. Parent education programs must
recognize and build on parent’s
strengths: All the parent education must
be based on parent’s strength. The
educators must identify the strength of
individual parents and shape them in a
right way so that the parents feel
connected and supported.

6. 4. All forms of parent education and the
people who deliver them must be
culturally competent, taking into
account race, culture, gender and other
identities: The educators must provide
linguistic appropriate services so that the
parents feel easy to understand also. The
educators must focus on the cultural
background gender and other basic
identities.

7. 5. Parent education programs must
recognize that parents have different
needs: The educators must be focus on
cater different needs of different parents.

8. 6.Parent education programs must build
on parent’s common experience: In this
the common experiences of other parents
creates more impact because words of
mouth plays a very important role in
changing the mindset of people.

9. 8.When the education occurs in a
group format, parent educators
must be trained in principles of
group work and facilitation: When
the educators teach in group they
must know the principles of group
work so that there is no hustle while
dealing in a group.

10. 7. Parent education programs must
utilize defined models and promising
practices and maintain clear
objectives: The educators must be very
clear and specific about their objective
and these objectives should be based
flexible enough to suit the target
audience/parents.

11. 9. parents must be involved in the
development, facilitation and
leadership of parent education
programs: Parents should be equally
involved in upliftment of parents education
program, so that it fastens the speed of
the process.

12. 10. All parent education and support
programs must be grounded in guiding
parents to be self-reflective about how
they are raising their children and how
they can improve their parenting skills:
These parent education must act like a
guiding force for the parents so that they
know how they are upbringing their kids
and how they are enhancing their own
skills for handling their own kids.