Parents Matter! Program
Parents Matter! Program
Parents Matter! is an evidence-based prevention program for parents of pre-teens. This community-level family prevention program is designed to enhance protective parenting practices and promote parent-child discussions about sexuality and sexual risk reduction.
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The program is designed to help parents overcome these common parent-child communication barriers and enhance parenting skills:
- Barriers to communication
- Parents are uninformed about how to discuss sexual issues
- Parents are uncomfortable or embarrassed to talk with their teens about sex
- Parents lack the confidence and skills to discuss sexual matters
- Parenting Skills
- Parental Monitoring
- Positive Reinforcement
- General Communication
Parents Matter
Parents need knowledge, comfort, skills, and confidence to talk with their children about sexuality and sexual risk reduction.
