Center for Healthy Inclusive Parenting (CHIP)

Welcome

Portland State University's Center for Healthy Inclusive Parenting (CHIP) promotes the development systems that strengthen and support children, women, men, families, and communities. CHIP operates from a strength-based model, building on existing family and community assets and resources. The Center fosters the development of partnerships and collaborations among providers, families and policymakers to acknowledge, challenge, and affirm perceptions of misrepresented or underrepresented family systems.

CHIP provides individualized technical assistance, training, and consultation to social service agencies, community organizations, education systems, and programs that interface with families on topics that include:

• Capacity building
• Community development
• Culturally inclusive service delivery
• Gender-specific services
• Grandparents as primary care providers
• Homelessness
• Incarcerated parents
• Mentoring
• Parents in recovery
• Teen parents

Objectives/Clients

• Promote healthy child and youth development
• Provide a clearing house for resources and assistance for local, regional, and national groups serving children and families
• Collaborate and connect with providers and policy makers in the arena of parenting and family services
• Provide technical support for service providers in the area of parenting and family services
• Provide workshops, seminars, trainings, and retreats on inclusive parenting
• Provide a vehicle for research and development on effective parenting models
• Provide evaluation and assessment of parenting programs
• Establish community forums and build self-sustaining coalitions for healthy and inclusive parenting throughout Pacific Northwest communities

Our Partners

• School districts
• Health departments
• Housing authorities
• Human service agencies
• Childhood programs
• Senior services
• State and federally funded programs
• Community action networks

Services

CHIP provides individualized training and consultation to organizations, community groups and individuals throughout the country. Scope and size of services correspond to the need of clients and community. CHIP maintains a commitment to long-term results and sustained services that are clinically, fiscally, and organizationally sound.

CHIP offers

• Conferences and workshops
• Consultation, training, and technical assistance
• Retreats—organize and facilitate
• Curriculum and collateral materials
• Development of community
• Capacity building

Services offered and partnerships vary from one-time/one-day events to long-term contracted partnerships.

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