The information in this program outline is provided by the program representative and edited by the CEBC staff. The Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) program has been reviewed by the CEBC in the area of: Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (Secondary), but lacks the necessary research evidence to be given a Scientific Rating.

• Types of Maltreatment: Physical Abuse, Physical Neglect, Emotional Abuse, Exposure to Domestic Violence
• Target Population: For parents of Latino descent who are raising children in the United States, both Spanish and English speakers.

The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring’s (CICC) LNBE program is a parenting skill-building program created specifically for parents of Latino American children. It has become one of the main parenting interventions provided by the staffs of the Latino Family Preservation units in the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. It is designed as a 12-session program to be used with small groups of parents, and as a one-day seminar for large numbers of parents. Over 1500 professionals, from 20 states, have been trained to deliver it since the late 1980s when it became available for national use through instructor training workshops conducted in cities nationwide.

Culturally-Specific Parenting Strategies

• Defining Bien and Mal Educados
• Traditional Family and Gender Roles
• Adjusting and Acculturating to the U.S.A.

General Parenting Strategies

• Social Learning Ideas and Pinpointing and Counting Behavior
• Parental Functions and Responsibilities
• Family Expectations are Like a Coin and Family Expectation Guidelines
• The Causes of Child Behavior and Considering the Causes Before and After You Act

Basic Parenting Skills Taught in a Culturally Sensitive Manner, Using Latino American Language Expressions, and Dichos

• Effective Praise
• Mild Social Disapproval
• Ignoring
• Time Out
• The Point System
• First/Then
• Show and Tell
• Family Chat or Platica

Special Topical Coverage

• Child Abuse Laws and Proper Parenting

Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) was not designed with a child component.

Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) was designed with a parent/caregiver component that addresses the following presenting problems and symptoms:

• Parents of children displaying disobedience, aggression, shyness, tantrums, and the whole spectrum of childhood behavior problems.

Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) was designed to be conducted in a group setting; but has not been tested for use in a group setting.

Recommended group size:

The best size of groups to receive the full, 12-session version of the program is from 10 to 15 parents. The one-day seminar version can be taught to 50 to 150 parents at a time.

Recommended Intensity:

Three-hour sessions weekly or a 6.5 hour one-time seminar.

Recommended Duration:

12 weeks of sessions or the one-day seminar.

This program is typically conducted in a(n):

• Adoptive Home
• Birth Family Home
• Community Agency
• Foster Home
• Hospital
• Outpatient Clinic
• Residential Care Facility
• School

Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) includes a homework component:

Each session has homework and/or home behavior change projects with the targeted child.

Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE) has materials available in a language other than English:

Spanish

For information on which materials are available in this language, please check on the program's website or contact the program representative (contact information is listed at the bottom of this page).

The typical resources for implementing the program are:

• The Parent Handbooks with program and skill descriptions
• An overhead projector and screen
• Space for 8-12 parents with enough room break into dyads for skill practice

The program is designed to be led by one instructor who presents the program, demonstrates and models the skills, and provides individual consultations to parents on their home behavior change projects. Practitioners ranging from paraprofessional prevention specialists and parent involvement coordinators to children service workers with B.A. degrees to Ph.D. psychologists have been trained to deliver the program. It is best to have had prior training in behavior modification or behavior analysis, as well as education and training in child development and group dynamics. In addition, exposure to Latino Studies courses and materials is helpful. The majority of the 1500 instructors trained and certified in this program have been of Latino descent, bicultural, and bilingual.

There is a manual that describes how to implement this program, and there is training available for this program.

Training Contact:

• Gary Oltman, Training Coordinator
  Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
  gary@ciccparenting.org
  phone: (818) 980-0903 or (818) 753-1054

Training is obtained:

People can enroll in already scheduled workshops in a variety of cities, or workshops can be brought to a location to be performed on a contractual basis.

Number of days/hours:

Five 6.5 hour days.

This program has been reviewed and it was determined that this program lacks the type of published, peer-reviewed research that meets the CEBC criteria for a scientific rating of 1 – 5. Therefore, the program has been given the classification of "NR - Not able to be Rated." It was reviewed because it was identified by the topic expert as a program being used in the field, or it is being marketed and/or used in California with children receiving services from child welfare or related systems and their parents/caregivers. Some programs that are not rated may have published, peer-reviewed research that does not meet the above stated criteria or may have eligible studies that have not yet been published in the peer-reviewed literature. For more information on the "NR - Not able to be Rated" classification, please see the Scientific Rating Scale.

Child Welfare Outcomes: Not Specified

Currently, there are no published, peer-reviewed research studies for Los Ninos Bien Educados (LNBE).