This evidence-informed and research-based curriculum was developed to equip parent educators with information to identify and build on family strengths, capabilities, and skills and to foster family protective factors. It features family-friendly activities and resources that engage parents in their children’s learning and development and inform their decisions around everything from nutrition to discipline to health. 

Length: 5 sessions, 2 hours each
Parents of kids ages 9-12
All genders

Parents Matter is an evidence-based curriculum aimed at helping parents communicate more effectively with their pre-teens. Parents are an important part of teen lives and Planned Parenthood in Fayetteville wants to keep these relationships strong. Parents Matter is a program is designed to inform parents of the pressures teens face, strengthen and improve the parent-child relationship, help parents become effective sexual educators for their teens, and address how to discuss sexual issue with teens.