1. Resourceful parents. Resilient children. Ready families.
Initiative
Resourceful parents. Resilient children. Ready families.

2. : What is it?
The Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness, in partnership with the Department of Defense’s Office of Military Community and Family Policy, is developing the THRIVE Initiative to empower parents from birth until their children reach adulthood at 18 years of age.

3. Domains & Program Areas
THRIVE: A parenting initiative spanning across the life of a child (birth to 18 years)
Positive Parenting Practices
Parent & Child Stress Management
Strategies for Promoting Child Physical Health
Prenatal - 3 years
3 – 5 years
5 – 10 years
10 – 18 years

4. is to:
The purpose of
Incorporate a strength-based approach, focusing on what families are already doing well to increase family readiness.
Harness the immense potential of parents, as agents of change, to foster positive youth development across the physical, intellectual, emotional, and social domains of health.
Assist parents from birth through adolescence, in developing skills and competencies across the three domains: Positive Parenting, Stress Management, and Health Promotion.

5. is unique! THRIVE initiative:
Program development utilizes a common components approach.
All program content, curricula, and activities have been gleaned from programs that have proven significant and positive outcomes in existing peer-reviewed, published research.
Programs incorporate blended and multimodal learning environments into the program delivery modes.
Information is delivered to and received from parents through face-to-face interactions, online learning, text message prompts, weekly online videos, and brief online surveys
Programs includes parenting strategies around child health promotion.
Child feeding strategies, monitoring screen time behaviors, providing opportunities for physical activity.

6. For parents of birth to 12 months
Initiative program example
For parents of birth to 12 months

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