Greater Good Parenting

Families Building Communities of Compassion

Camp Kindness Counts believes in the power of kindness and provides opportunities for families to practice and nurture character strengths such as forgiveness, generosity, and compassion in their daily lives. Support is provided through Family Service Events, camps, parenting workshops, and resource pages on their website. Their Kind World Explorers initiative provides research-based activity guidebooks and enrichment opportunities for families globally as both a tool for character development and community-building.

Website: https://www.campkindnesscounts.org/kind-world

Strengths: Compassion,  Forgiveness,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  Honesty,  Humility,  Love,  Purpose,  and Reliability

Purposeful Parents

Citywise is partnering with fathers, mothers, and carers from the local community, giving them the opportunity to discover the keys to help their children unlock their passion and potential. As we relax in the lounge over five weeks, we discover the keys our children need to begin exploring their purpose in life, and get to grips with Citywise’s unique character-building resources based on 25 years of experience from working in the local community.

Website: https://citywise.org/purposeful-parents/

Strengths: Purpose 

Fatherhood & Co-parenting: Beyond Conflict

Fatherhood and Co-parenting: Beyond Conflict is a six-week workshop series. Guided by the principles of empathy, gratitude, reliability, and purpose, the curriculum is designed to build confidence and enhance dads’ co-parenting experience.

Website: https://familypaths.org/parenting/parenting-classes/

Strengths: Gratitude,  Purpose,  and Reliability

Like a Sponge Podcast | DIY Family Engagement Lecture Series

Season two of GreatSchools’ podcast Like a Sponge is all about the science of teaching kids character. An accompanying series of free family engagement presentations offers any school, district, or parent organization the ability to give talks that will educate and spark conversations about the big issues that really matter when it comes to raising the next generation.

Website: https://www.greatschools.org/gk/family-engagment-talks-presentations/

Strengths: Forgiveness,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  Honesty,  Humility,  Love,  and Purpose

Mindful Parenting Program Families

The Mindful Parenting Program, initiated at the Kaveri Group of Institutes, aims to build a sustainable, easily replicable, experiential approach to Parenting Education that encourages introspection. It fosters the overall well-being of parents, open dialogue, and closer parent-child and parent-school relationships. It promotes volunteerism and community service among parents and children and fosters a more compassionate society.

Website: https://mindfulparentingindia.com

Strengths: Compassion,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  and Purpose

Resilient Parenting

The Resilient Parenting web-based learning series provides accessible and evidence-based parenting education modules for families living in socioeconomic scarcity and experiencing additional traumatic stressors such as Child Protective Services involvement, homelessness, and/or criminal justice involvement.

Website: http://www.lssmn.org/

Strengths: Purpose 

Criando Niños Valientes y Cariñosos

Pinyon Foundation has teamed up with Hispanic Communications Network to develop resources and materials in Spanish to empower parents and caregivers to teach children character strengths.

Website: https://www.laredhispana.org/actualidades/cmo-criar-nios-valientes-y-cariosos

Strengths: Compassion,  Forgiveness,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  Honesty,  Humility,  Love,  Purpose,  and Reliability

Bee the Change

Bee the Change is designed to optimize children’s health and well-being by inspiring parents to create a family culture that promotes prosocial behavior and character development in both children and parents by instituting the following programs: A Community-wide Family Kindness Day, a family read-out loud program called One Book-One Practice, Bee K.I.N.D. (Kid Initiated Nice Deeds) Youth Challenge Grants, and Bee the ChAnGE age appropriate prosocial behavior cards.

Website: https://www.senderspediatrics.com

Strengths: Compassion,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  and Purpose

Inspiring Grace

The goal for the Inspiring Grace parenting group is to build resiliency among parents and their children in the areas of forgiveness, love, reliability, purpose, and community connections to help balance the risk factors that may be present in the home and in the North Lawndale and surrounding communities. Inspiring Grace focuses on connectedness: parent to child, child to parent, family to community. Inspiring Grace does not assume that every household struggles in teaching these core relational elements. Instead, Inspiring Grace focuses on the enhancement of parenting skills versus addressing deficits or gaps.

Website: http://www.ucanchicago.org

Strengths: Forgiveness,  Love,  and Purpose

Social-Emotional Learning Parent Seminars

United Schools of Indianapolis is expanding a social-emotional learning student curriculum to the parents of its scholars through parenting seminars.

Website: http://avondalemeadowsacademy.com/

Strengths: Generosity,  Gratitude,  and Purpose

Keep Connected for Faith and Life

Keep Connected for Faith and Life allows Christian Churches to pilot a faith-based version of Search Institute’s Keep Connected Curriculum with Junior High Youth and their families.

Website: https://keepconnected.searchinstitute.org/

Strengths: Compassion,  Forgiveness,  Gratitude,  Love,  and Purpose