Some of the early PP activities were:
- Production of a manual for community-based
facilitators of parent groups
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Development of training materials
to promote the use of the manual using participatory methods.
- Pilot test the materials developed.
This was the birth of “Pathways to Parenting: A Caribbean Approach”
which is widely used within the region and is currently being revised.
| Parenting Partners also
hosted two Caribbean Parenting Conferences where many contacts were made and rekindled.
The overlap with Parenting, ECD and the media was made even more
distinct at the Second Caribbean Parenting Conference in 2001
where representatives from all the fields actively participated
and developed some plans of action to work with each other more
constructively. |
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Community media has been identified as one of the
most pervasive means of communication in the Caribbean
region. In this regard, the
Caribbean Support Initiative’s (CS)s Work plan 2002-2005: A Framework for Action
speaks to a communications and media strategy that highlights the
importance of using community radio to disseminate information to
grassroots people in their communities.
The regional Radio Project
(RRP) is being implemented by Parenting Partners and the CSI with
support from the Bernard van Leer Foundation. It is being implemented
in six communities in five Caribbean
countries, each with a local coordinator. These are:
Michael
Als – Community of Toco,
Trinidad
Claudia
Groome-Duke – Community of Black Rock, Tobago
Jimmy
Clavier – Community of Canries, St. Lucia
Linda
Straker – Grenada
Keziah Nash – Bequia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Allie
Matthew – Carib territory, Dominica
