This document was printed from the website of the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC), which you can access at http://www.cachildwelfareclearinghouse.org/
This document was printed from the website of the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC), which you can access at http://www.cachildwelfareclearinghouse.org/
Type of Maltreatment: Emotional abuse, Exposure to domestic violence, Physical abuse, and Physical neglect
Target Population: For parents of Latino descent who are raising children in the United States, both Spanish and English speakers.
Brief Description:
Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) has been rated by the CEBC in the area of Prevention (Secondary). The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring’s (CICC) LNBE program is a parenting skill-building program created specifically for parents of Latino American children. It has become one of the main parenting interventions provided by the staffs of the Latino Family Preservation units in the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. It is designed as a 12-session program to be used with small groups of parents, and as a one-day seminar for large numbers of parents. Over 1500 professionals, from 20 states, have been trained to deliver it since the late 1980s when it became available for national use through instructor training workshops conducted in cities nationwide.
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Culturally-Specific Parenting Strategies
General Parenting Strategies
Basic Parenting Skills Taught in a Culturally Sensitive Manner, Using Latino American Language Expressions, and Dichos
Special Topical Coverage
Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) was designed to be conducted in a group.
Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) has not been tested for use in a group setting.
The recommended group size is: The best size of groups to receive the full, 12-session version of the program is from 10 to 15 parents. The one-day seminar version can be taught to 50 to 150 parents at a time.
Recommended intensity: Three-hour sessions weekly or a 6.5 hour one-time seminar.
Recommended duration: 12 weeks of sessions or the one-day seminar.
Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) includes a homework component.
Description: Each session has homework and/or home behavior change projects with the targeted child.
Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) is typically conducted in a(n): Adoptive Home, Birth Family Home, Community Agency, Foster Home, Hospital, Outpatient Clinic, Residential Care Facility, and School.
Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) was designed with a Parent Component.
Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) addresses the following presenting problems and symptoms: Parents of children displaying disobedience, aggression, shyness, tantrums, and the whole spectrum of childhood behavior problems.
Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) was not designed with a Child Component.
Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) was not developed for children with developmental delays.
Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) has not been tested for children with developmental delays.
Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) was designed for specific racial/ethnic/cultural groups.
Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) was not tested in specific racial/ethnic/cultural groups.
Specific Groups: Parents of Latino descent
There is a manual that describes how to implement this program.
There is training available for Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE).
Training contact: Gary Oltman, Training Coordinator, Affiliation/Agency: Center for the Improvement of Child Caring, 6260 Laurel Canyon Road, Ste. 304, N. Hollywood, CA 91606, Email: gary@ciccparenting.org, Phone: (818) 980-0903, Fax number: (818) 753-1054.
Number of days/hours: Five 6.5 hour days
Training is obtained: People can enroll in already scheduled workshops in different cities or workshops can be brought to a location to be performed on a contractual basis.
There currently are not additional qualified resources for training.
The typical resources for implementing Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) are: The Parent Handbooks with program and skill descriptions, an overhead projector and screen, and space for 8-12 parents with enough room break into dyads for skill practice.
The program is designed to be led by one instructor who presents the program, demonstrates and models the skills, and provides individual consultations to parents on their home behavior change projects. Practitioners ranging from paraprofessional prevention specialists and parent involvement coordinators to children service workers with B.A. degrees to Ph.D. psychologists have been trained to deliver the program. It is best to have had prior training in behavior modification or behavior analysis as well as education and training in child development and group dynamics. In addition, exposure to Latino Studies courses and materials is helpful. The majority of the 1500 instructors trained and certified in this program have been of Latino descent, bicultural, and bilingual.
Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) was given the scientific rating of “4 – Effectiveness is Unknown” based on the published, peer-reviewed research available. The practice lacks adequate published, peer-reviewed research to empirically determine efficacy, however, it was identified by the topical expert as a program being used in this area, or it is being marketed and/or used in California with children receiving services from child welfare or related systems and their parents/caregivers. Therefore, the program has been highlighted on this website. For more information, follow this link to the complete definition of this rating.
There are currently no published, peer-reviewed research studies on Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE).
The LNBE program is based on the principles of the Effective Black Parenting program, which was tested in:
Meyers, H.F., Alvy, K.T., Arrington, A., Richardson, M.A., Marigna, M., Huff, R., Main, M., &, Newcomb, M.D. (1992). The impact of a parent training program on inner-city African-American families. Journal of Community Psychology, 20, 132-147
Evaluation studies are available on the website of the Center for the Improvement of Child Caring:http://www.ciccparenting.org/pdf/LNBE_Grant_Description_tables.pdf
Alvy, K. (1994). Parent training today: A social necessity, Studio City, CA: Center for the Improvement of Child Caring. (Included are the research findings about the parenting worldviews of Latino American parents (Cultural Frame of Reference), as well as the research findings on the specific parenting practices used by parents and their hopes for the futures of their children. It is available for purchase at http://ciccparenting.org/catalogitem.asp?ci=5&cid=&c=1.)
Office of Substance Abuse Prevention (1991). Parent training is prevention: Preventing alcohol and other drug problems among youth in the family, (DHHS Publication No. ADM 91-1715) Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Contact name: Gary Oltman
Affiliation/Agency: Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
Email: gary@ciccparenting.org
Phone: 818-980-0903
Fax: 818-753-1054
Website: http://www.ciccparenting.org