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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.
Upcoming Opportunities
Tribes and organizations are invited to apply today for an all-expense paid training and implementation grant to bring "Positive Indigenous Parenting" to their communities.
Please share this opportunity to help reintroduce traditional parenting teachings in community-specific and culturally relevant ways!
Anchorage Providers Training-of-Trainers
Open – apply today!
Eligibility Requirements: Anchorage-based organizations interested in implementing culturally relevant parenting classes are invited to apply. Organizations must send 2 individuals to the training-of-trainers and commit to offering PIP to at least 30 parents/caregivers in the next 12 months.
Training Details: September 17-19, 9 am to 4:30 pm, BP Energy Center
Grant Details: Organizations that successfully complete the training-of-trainers will be eligible for implementation grants of up to $15,000 to fund their parenting classes. Organizations will be required to submit quarterly reports to ACT.
Rural Providers Training-of-Trainers
Closed! Check back soon for more opportunities.
Questions or need assistance? Email Eliza Posner.
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
