NYS Parenting Education Partnership

Evidence and Evaluation Work Group

The Evidence and Evaluation Work Group identifies and develops resources about research-based programs and best practice in parenting education, and is assessing the availibility and quality of parenting education in New York State. 

Work Group Reports

• How NYSPEP uses the term "evidenced-based"
• 2008 Survey Report Parenting educators' use of evidence and evaluation in their programs
• 2010 Assesment Executive Summary Barriers, needs, and gaps in accessing parenting education
• 2010 Survey of Providers Barriers, needs and gaps from parenting educators' point of view, full report on
• 2010 Parent Focus Groups Barriers, needs, and gaps from parents' point of view, full report on

Evidence and Evaluation Resources

• Resources in Parenting Education: Curricula Curricula  Chart of evidence-based and commonly used group-program curricula, published January 2010

• Effective Parent Education Programs Effective Parent Education Programs Summary report on successful programs from Cornell Cooperative Extension

• What Works for Whom: Promising Practices in Parenting Education Report from Canadian Association of Family Resource Programs, 2008

• Protective Factors Survey, pre-post evaluation tool from FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention
• FRIENDS Fact Sheet #16: Parent Education, National Resource Center for CBCAP, 2008.
• FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-based Child Abuse Prevention Evaluation Toolkit and Logic Model Builder.
• Best Practices for Parent Education Programs Seeking to Prevent Child Abuse, by Lisa C. Shannon, North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension Service.
• Parenting in Context, Cornell University College of Human Ecology, in particular the Research Briefs.
• Parent Training Programs: Insight for Practitioners, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; 2009.

Co-chairs

Christine Deyss, Executive Director
Prevent Child Abuse New York
33 Elk Street, 2nd Floor
Albany, NY 12207
518.445.1273
cdeyss@preventchildabuseny.org

Judy Richards, Director
William B. Hoyt Memorial Children and Family Trust Fund
New York State Office of Children and Family Services
52 Washington Street, Room 3N
Rensselaer, NY 12144
518.474.9613
Judy.richards@ocfs.state.ny.us