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During FY 08, FNC-GA provided 31 Nurturing Parenting Programs® to 642 individuals expecting children and/or who currently have children from birth to 17 years of age. These families represented the Black, White, Hispanic, Multiracial, Asian/Pacific, and Native American populations.

While delivering these programs the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) strategy of Education was used. Services were delivered by local community partners that included Family Connection county collaborations, Family Resource Centers, Child Abuse Prevention Councils, Department of Education, Department of Public Health, Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Faith-based Organizations, and Housing Authorities. The CSAP strategy of Community-Based Process allowed FNC-GA to provide funding, program materials, and staff who administered appropriate and practical technical assistance to agencies related to program promotion, coordination, delivery, administration and collection of assessments and reporting. This technical assistance was provided on site and through auxiliary contacts.

All programs administered the requisite evaluation tools to implement the programs and curriculum and to capture data to measure program objectives. There was data collected to measure the required SAMHSA National Outcome Measures of: 1) 30 Day Use 2) Perceived availability of alcohol and drugs 3) perceived harm from substance abuse 4) attitude toward use among population at large.

The data collected revealed that:

• Of families who completed the program, 80 % increased their positive parenting attitudes to average or above average levels as measured by the AAPI-2 evaluation instrument.

• Of families who completed the program, 86 % increased their positive parenting knowledge to average or above average levels as measured by the Nurturing Quiz.

• 98 % Participants who completed community-based trainings, workshops and retreats rated the quality of instruction received with a group rating of 4.0 or higher on a 5.0 scale.

In addition to delivering parenting skills to over 642 individual families during FY 2008, FNC GA provided 65 professional development training workshops, community-based parenting retreats and program technical assistance to facilitate effective programming and assist with referrals with attendance of 781 individuals. The CSAP strategies of Community Based Process, and Information Dissemination were used.

Program Technical Assistance was provided on-going to sub-contractors with direct and in-direct contacts made to enable them to be as effective as possible in the delivery and evaluation of the Nurturing Parenting Programs. A total of 985 direct contact hours were made and a total of 6526 indirect contact hours were made.

FNC-GA is the designated Trainer of Trainers for the Nurturing God's Way (NGW) Parenting Program for Chrisitan Families. NGW is currently being presented in churches, prisons, detention centers, community centers, christian counseloring centers, battered women shelters, and centers for teenage mothers across the country. FNC-GA endeavors to build a solid and trustworthy training force to help meet the needs of families as they honor God with their parenting. For further information, please visit the NGW website for further information.