These manuals are program specific and constitute the curriculum for each of the 13 Nurturing Parenting Programs. Parenting handbooks for parents and adolescents. These handbooks are written at a fifth-grade reading level. Implementation manual that describes the how-to's of implementing the programs, facilitating groups, gathering pretest and posttest data, recruiting families, and working with children. Instructional videos in which actors demonstrate examples of abusive parenting with inappropriate behaviors such as hitting and yelling.
Parents discuss the interactions dramatized in the video and alternatives to the abusive behavior.
Games for parents and children that help build their nurturing skills and provide an opportunity for them to interact and have fun together. The games reinforce the concepts that are being presented. Instructional aids that include card games, pictures, and questionnaires.