Positive parenting to be highlighted at PIOJ’s best practice symposium on November 11
The Planning Institute of Jamaica will host the 11th Best Practice Symposium for Social and Community Development on November 11. The event will focus on positive parenting and how it affects children. Kaodi McGaw, a research specialist for the Community Renewal Programme, stated that evidence-based parenting approaches were selected for the topic. This choice was based on the correlating impact these practices have on society.
Positive parenting and its impact on children will be the centrepiece of discussions on November 11, when the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) hosts the 11th staging of the Best Practice Symposium for Social and Community Development. Highlighting the critical importance of promoting the best practices of evidence-based parenting approaches, PIOJ Community Renewal Programme Research Specialist, Kaodi McGaw, told a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank on November 5 that the topic was selected due to the correlating impact on the society.