This parent education program integrates the cultural traditions of African Americans into the goals and activities of parenting skills training. Major goals of the program are to help African Americans raise their children in a racially hostile environment, to present African Americans First as the authority on African American parenting, and to empower families with positive images and messages. There are four modules to the program: Difference and Its Place in America; Transcending Oppression and Teaching Dual Consciousness; Spirituality and the Black Church; and Teaching Children to…
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Journal Article The CARRI Program at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's Community Mental Health Center in Piscataway developed a home-based family therapy program for adolescent parents that included their extended families. Participation of extended families is important especially for cultural groups such as African-Americans, who have strong intergenerational bonds. This article provides an overview of cultural and systemic issues in African American families and their experience with teen pregnancy. Multigenerational incidence of teen pregnancy and single parenthood,…