The Center for Effective Parenting (CEP) attempts to positively
impact children through a focus on improving parenting skills. The Center is
a collaborative project of the Jones Center for Families in Springdale, the
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), and Arkansas Children’s
Hospital (ACH). Dr. Nicholas Long, Professor of Pediatrics at UAMS and ACH,
is the Center’s director.
The Center focuses its efforts in the areas of service, training, and research.
By focusing efforts in these three areas the Center strives to have a significant
impact not only on parents and children in Arkansas but also on parents and
children across the nation.
CEP utilizies a multitarget-multimethod approach to broadly disseminate a continuum
of parenting information, support, and training activities. The program incorporates
innovative approaches, emerging technologies, as well as traditional approaches.
The program focuses many of its efforts statewide but has centers in Northwest
Arkansas (Jones Center in Springdale) and in Little Rock (Arkansas Children’s
Hospital).
The Center’s website (www.parenting-ed.org)
contains a wealth of information for parents including free handouts on various
parenting topics, recommended parenting websites, and information about their
free parenting classes.
Arkansas Children's Hospital, 1 Children’s Way, Little Rock, AR 72202-3591, (501) 364-1100 or TDD (501) 364-1184