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Education for families and family professionals
Family Relations

We offer practical information for families and professionals who work with families.  Our training and educational products serve families of different ethnicities, cultures and life stages. Our programs are:

  • Families with Teens helps you meet the challenges of raising teens and learn to appreciate their successes.
  • Parent Education gives parents effective parenting tools and strategies for raising toddlers, school-aged children, and teens.
  • Parents Forever is a 12-hour educational program for parents going through divorce, with materials that are also available to already-divorced or never-married parents.

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We have parenting resources in Spanish!

Parenting resources in Spanish

Creciendo con su adolescente — Thriving with your Teen; Enseñando a crecer, una guía para padres — Positive Discipline; Padres para siempre — Parents Forever

 

Our Guiding Principles  
 

We recognize and value diverse family structures. We define parent as any adult caregiver performing the multiple roles in parenting. We know that families are influenced by culture, race, ethnicity, religion and socioeconomic level and are part of neighborhoods, religious communities and social institutions.

As the first intimate setting for children, the family’s role is to present a context within which children can understand who they are and what the family expects of them. The family equips children with the skills needed to successfully function in society.

All family members influence each other in the family setting. The parent/child influence goes both ways. We define parent as any adult caregiver performing the multiple roles in parenting. We offer educational resources for divorcing parents and parents of children of all ages as well as professionals who work with those parents.

 


Contact Information

Minnell Tralle
Area Program Leader
Extension Service Regional Center, Andover
550 Bunker Lake Blvd NW, Suite L-1
Andover, MN 55304-4190
Phone: 763-767-3881
Fax: 763-767-3885
E-mail:trall001@umn.edu

Program Team

 
 
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  Our Products
Resources to Share with Parents
Resources for Working with Families of Teens
Materiales en español para padres
Parents Forever: for Professionals Helping Parents through Divorce
  Success Stories
Evaluation Results
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Resource Management for Daily Life
Youth & Money
  Related Resources
Find educational materials on these topics:
Adult Development/Aging
Change & Stress
Child Care
Child Development
Family Economic Stability
Family Finances
Marriage, Divorce & Relationships
Parenting
Understanding Youth
  Related Websites
CYFERnet, Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network
University of Minnesota Children, Youth and Family Consortium
  INFO-U
Great on-line information for families with children of all ages
INFO-U in Spanish
INFO-u in Hmong
INFO-U in Somali
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