National Center For Parents
As
a university-wide center, the National Center for Parents (NCP) focuses
on broad issues affecting parents that transcend the traditional boundaries
of race, color, national origin, and socioeconomic status. The NCP seeks
to answer the questions that affect how parents are valued, empowered,
and mobilized in our society so that our children can reach adulthood safely
and healthfully.
Mission
Identify
the need for and impact of policies affecting parents, interpret and disseminate
that knowledge, and provide impact statements and research to improve those
policies. The parental impact statement will show how policy affects parents,
makes a difference in their lives, and provide resolutions that acknowledge
reality.
Vision
Renowned
for providing parental impact statements that national, state, and local governements,
non-profit agencies, and businesses use to guide development of policy relating
to parents and children. The National Center for Parents accomplishes
its vision by becoming the nation's leading university-community based model
addressing laws and policies that affect parents through collaborative, multidiscipilnary
research, education, and service.
Goals