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Positive Indigenous Parenting
Positive Indigenous Parenting is a curriculum designed by the National Indian Child Welfare Association and enhanced to focus on the unique cultures of Alaska Native populations. Interested in teaching PIP in your community? Learn more below about our upcoming training-of-trainers opportunities.
About The Training
Alaska Children’s Trust is excited to offer tribes and organizations the opportunity to become certified trainers for “Positive Indigenous Parenting.” Our train-the-trainer program is adapted from the National Indian Child Welfare Association’s popular Positive Indian Parenting program, with enhancements and discussions that focus on the unique cultures of our Alaska Native population.
The curriculum prepares service providers to deliver culturally relevant parenting classes to members of their community. You will learn how to build on the strength of your community and its culture to help parents and caregivers use their cultural values to nurture their children.
About PIP
Positive Indigenous Parenting was designed to help parents and families remember traditional teachings and practice them. In each of the eight sessions, participants discuss examples of traditional practices and teachings from different Alaska Native cultures. Instructors also share teachings from local areas and communities. Then, participants discuss how to apply those teachings and values to parenting today.
What People Are Saying About Positive Indigenous Parenting
“We get lots of OCS referrals and one of the needs in our community is parenting education. So this training was very important for us to be able to provide something very specific that we can incorporate Alaska Native culture within the parenting as well.”
— training participant
“Positive Indian Parenting (which Positive Indigenous Parenting is modeled from) is a curriculum that I deeply believe will help prevent child abuse by relying on a tribe’s culture- the values, the strengths, they become protective factors.
We believe that tribes are experts on themselves - they know how they used to take care of their kids. It’s the reconnecting of those values with behaviors that this class focuses on.”
— trainer from the National Indian Child Welfare Association
