GRANTEE SPOTLIGHT
Promoting Practical Child Development Resources and Videos for Parents
Mount Sinai Parenting Center
The Mount Sinai Parenting Center is creating a new Parent Video Series that aims to promote the parenting behaviors that have proven to positively impact child development and well-being. The series will include fourteen videos paired with the fourteen standard pediatric well-child visits from birth to age five and will discuss topics ranging from healthy sleeping habits to social-emotional learning in an easily digestible format.
The videos will be accessible to parents via tablet or text and can be watched in the waiting or exam room during their child’s visit. After engaging with the video content, parents will be primed to discuss relevant questions or concerns with their health care team.
In addition to reaching parents directly, the videos will also serve as a training tool for pediatric residents, modeling the delivery of routine anticipatory guidance in a relevant, sensitive, and intentional way.
Dr. Kim Noble of Columbia University Teachers College will conduct a program evaluation aimed at understanding the connections between the curriculum and child/family health outcomes. This data will be used to assess the efficacy of the program and to inform future scaling.
After their own immediate family, health care professionals are the second most used source of information for parents with children under 5 and the most trusted source of information.39
69% of parents say that if they knew more positive parenting strategies, they would use them.39
54% of parents wish they had more information about how to be a better parent.39
About half of parents believe that children are capable of self-control and other developmental milestones much earlier than they actually are.39
Program in Action
