For more information on any of these programs, contact a campus or field Families Extension professional. This service is available only to the residents of Iowa. Last year, Answerline helped 32,792 Iowa consumers. Celebrate Families Celebrate Families improves communication and connections between second and third graders and their parents.
Parents increase their parenting skills and both parents and children improve self-esteem.
The program will be expanding to include kindergartners, first graders and their parents. This program provides curriculum that is designed to prevent teen substance abuse and other behavior problems, strengthen parenting skills, and build family strengths. Parents and youth meet separately at first, then come together to practice skills and have fun together. Some of the special features of this program are that parents and youth learn together, the program was designed and used with ethnically diverse families in rural and urban settings, and it has been scientifically evaluated and shown to be effective. This service is provided by the Iowa Department of Public Health and Iowa State University Extension.