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…
This final report presents information on the outcomes and accomplishments of the African American Male Adoption Project, which used an innovative approach to find adoptive homes for African American boys in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN. The report describes the accomplishments of the project, including the development of specialized and ongoing family recruitment strategies, such as announcing the project in church bulletins, airing radio public service announcements, providing materials at African American community events, and compiling photo albums of targeted children. Other activies…