New National Organization Promotes Effective Parenting and Parenting Education
Parents, parenting educators and agencies around the country sign up to become members of the National Effective Parenting Initiative (NEPI)
Studio City, Calif. (PRWEB) May 24, 2007 -- Meeting the demands of over 1000 parents, educators and agencies from around the country who signed an on-line petition to promote effective parenting, the National Effective Parenting Initiative (NEPI) is now offering memberships to further its mission of making it the birthright of every child to be raised effectively by loving and skillful parents who receive the best possible parenting education and support.
Membership categories include Parent, Professional and Affiliated Organizations and are listed on the organization's Web site www.EffectiveParentingUSA.org. Annual dues have been set at $25 for parents and $100 for professionals. Dues for affiliated organizations are dependent on their size and total budget. Each membership comes with an array of benefits to help in being the best parent possible and/or being the most effective professional or agency in educating and serving parents, children and families.
Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D., founder executive director of the 33-year-old Center for the Improvement of Child Caring in Studio City, Calif., came up with the idea for NEPI in early 2006 because there was no organization bringing attention to the critical need and importance of both effective parenting and parenting education on a national level.
According to Dr. Alvy, "When children are effectively and skillfully parented, they have the best chance of reaching their full potential and becoming healthy, productive citizens."
Dr. Alvy and the other national parenting authorities who are members of the NEPI Board of Advisors feel parenting education in its various forms and programs is the most direct and sensible way of helping parents to be effective and skillful in raising children.
At a White House Briefing held in December 2006 at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Dr. Alvy told top officials of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies in attendance, "When effective parenting and parenting education become priorities, all communities benefit in numerous ways, such as reductions in the costly and often tragic problems that are associated with or caused by ineffective and uninformed parenting --¬ problems like child abuse and neglect, juvenile delinquency, substance abuse, school failure and underachievement, gangs, crime and violence.."
As part of efforts to build the capacity of communities to insure that every child is raised effectively, Dr. Alvy will begin delivering keynote addresses on Organizing America for Effective Parenting that show how NEPI memberships and initiatives can be used in creating local effective parenting projects. These inspiring presentations are supplemented by meetings with Dr. Alvy and local leadership groups to explore specific strategies for creating and supporting such important undertakings.
The first of these presentation and leadership meeting events will take place June 13-14, 2007, at The Pathways to Effective Parent Education Conference at Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA. The organizing groups include the State Department of Health , Prevent Child Abuse Virginia, and the Governor's Office of Substance Abuse Prevention.
For more information on The National Effective Parenting Initiative go to the NEPI Web site www.EffectiveParentingUSA.org. To explore bringing Dr. Alvy to a community to help develop local effective parenting initiatives, e-mail him at kalvy @ aol.com or call 1 (800) 325-2422.
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