Identify three effective parent training interventions and describe one similarity and one difference between these programs.
Strengthening families program
it is a group-based intervention aimed at providing family skills.
training sessions on this program provide parenting life skills and children’s life skills
Play and learning strategies
t This is an intervention that seeks to help parents develop the right skills and traits of interacting with toddlers and infants.
Nurturing parenting programs
it is a group and only evidence-based family-centered intervention aimed at reducing abusive and neglectful parenting practices and nurturing excellent parenting skills.
Similarities between the three programs
All three programs provide family and parenting outcomes.
Differences between the programs
Strengthening family programs does not enhance language and literacy child outcomes. At the same time, the play and learning strategies fail to facilitate social and emotional competence in child outcomes, and the nurturing parenting programs provide primary child outcomes. Still, it fails to encourage language and literacy outcomes.
Describe the general effectiveness of school extensive prevention programs, practices, and policies, including specific examples shown to have evidence of effectiveness in reducing crime and cases with insufficient evidence.
Zero-Tolerance Policies
This policy aims to reduce classroom problems and improve safety in schools. The punishments for those students misbehaving in schools involve expulsion from school, harsh penalties for extreme behaviors, and court proceeding for reckless acts that cause severe damages in the learning environments. The policies lack sufficient evidence of the effectiveness in reducing problems in the educational environment. The available evidence shows that the policies are ineffective in the school climate.
Police Officers in Schools
The officers are meant to provide security in the school climate. They also maintain law and order in the learning environment. There is insufficient evidence that proves that this program is effective in reducing crimes in the school environs. The available evidence shows that police officers report more offense to criminal justice officials and not in controlling and reducing the rate of illegal activities in schools.
Child skills training
This program aims at teaching children the most appropriate cognitive, emotional, and social competences of solving daily challenges that they experience in the learning environment, such as anger management and effective decision making. The program is useful when conducted with manageable student numbers.
Behavioral parenting training
This program is used in equipping parents with the right skills to deal with their children. The parents are trained on how to punish their children and how they show to encourage them to have good morals in society. Young children who are raised and nurtured in the right manners grow up to be good and productive citizens, while those who lack excellent parenting skills are more likely to engage in criminal activities in the future. The program is more effective when conducted with a manageable size of parents with children aged ten years and above.
Bullying prevention
It is a useful program to prevent unwanted aggressive behavior of students. Many schools have set laws that prohibit bullying in the learning environment. Bullying can take the form of physical aggression and attacks on social media platforms. The available evidence shows that the program is effective in reducing bullying penetration and victimization.
Communities that care
it is a crime prevention system in which communities address different challenges in such as behavior problems and adolescent issues. The programs provide a structure where various stakeholders can share community visions and goals. the evidence available shows that the program is effective in solving community problems
Community mobilization
It is an intervention where community members work together as a team to prevent criminal activities. The program educates the community members on different forms of crime in society and the appropriate crime prevention strategies. It helps the communities to monitor their development. The practice lacks sufficient evidence on its effectiveness in reducing illegal activities in the society