Abstract
The Parent Project is a partnership project between the Roseville Police Department and local schools. It provides ten weekly two-hour class intervention sessions for parents who have experienced challenges in managing their adolescents. This program evaluation project explored the program’s effectiveness on parental knowledge, parental skill, parental attitude and parental confidence. This study used a mixed design. The quantitative research aspect of this study design includes a pretest/posttest pre-experimental design, O1 X O2. The qualitative portion of this study design uses a voluntary focus group two months after graduating from the program. Study findings show that The Parent Project program is an effective program in increasing parental knowledge, skill, attitude and parental confidence. Most notably, all participants were in agreement with 93% (N=14) marking that they strongly agree with the statement, “The Parent Project is an effective program.” On-going post Parenting Project support is recommended.