The Family Nurturing C enter of Georgia (FNC-GA) was formed in 1997 to assist with the management of a 16-county regional project entitled “Nurturing Georgia’s Families”. The Family Nurturing Center International® (or FNC, located in Asheville, NC) began contracting with the State of Georgia to provide training, technical assistance, program materials and stipends to support local Nurturing Parenting Programs® in northwest Georgia. FNC and FNC-GA worked hand-in-hand to develop local program providers in each of those counties. FNC-GA was then incorporated in 1999 as a private, not-for-profit entity. FNC-GA eventually assumed the contract with the State of Georgia, and has been fulfilling those obligations ever since. As of 1997, the “Nurturing Georgia’s Families” Project has expanded its territory to 74 counties and is currently the highest funded prevention contractor for the State of Georgia.
FNC-GA is just one office in a nationwide network of resource centers supporting the concept of nurturing. FNC-GA’s Nurturing Georgia’s Families Project®, which utilizes the Nurturing Parenting Programs® (NPP), works to prevent the cited problem of child abuse, neglect, and substance abuse via in-home visitation and group-based programming. The NPP's help to strengthen family bonds, teach age-specific parenting skills that help change behaviors/attitudes, and decrease the risk factors associated with family dysfunction and dissolution. NPP's have been extensively field tested and shown to be successful in the prevention of child abuse, neglect, and substance abuse. Since 1997, the Nurturing Georgia’s Families Project has expanded its territory to 74 counties and is currently the highest funded prevention contractor for the State of Georgia.
The Nurturing Parenting Programs® are family-based and focus on increasing nurturing parenting skills. These programs include a variety of activities that work to build empathy, love and compassion, and mixing them with discipline to form healthy parent-child bonds. Families may take this program in their homes or with a group of other parents. Some of the NPP’s available are for:
• African American Families (Supplement)
• Spanish Speaking Families
• Christian Families
• Prenatal Families
• Teenage Parents and their Families
• Parents with infants, toddlers or preschoolers
• Parents with children entering kindergarten
• Parents with school-age children, 5-11 years
• Parents with special learning needs & their kids
• Parents with children with Health Challenges
• Nurturing Skills for Families and Teen Parents
The Family Nurturing Center of Georgia provides training and technical assistance in these and other programs.
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