Appendicies

Definitions

• Individual Intervention - specialized individual support and skill building activities based on family need. High intensity, but low reach. (Pathways, Healthy Babies, Healthy Children)
• Parent Skills Training - group sessions with a facilitator and curriculum. The focus is on increasing caregivers' knowledge and skills in parenting techniques, which may include topics such as growth and development, parental self care, positive discipline, etc. (e.g., Bounce Back and Thrive, Raising your Spirited Child, Prenatal Classes).
• Supportive Environments - includes informal and formal supports for families not specifically focused on parent skill building, but indirectly creating a better community in which to be a parent. This category can include playgroups, activities for children and families, and training opportunities for agency staff to increase their knowledge about how to work with families. (YMCA , library services, parks, OEYC playgroups)
• Parenting Information Campaigns - universal messages aiming to reach all parents, which can be communicated through social media campaigns, print or web resources. Low intensity and high reach. (e.g., Healthy Baby, Healthy Brain Campaign (Best Start), United Way Campaign).
• Policy and Community Action - agency, community or government policies that support parents, as well as advocacy and community action groups (e.g., Children and Youth Services Planning Committee or Parenting Alliance).

Adapted with permission from Region of Waterloo Public Health.

KFL&A Public Health is conducting a scan of parenting support initiative/activities available in KFL&A [DEFINE GEOGRAPHY]. We would greatly appreciate your participation in a survey of community resources for parenting support/positive parenting. This is intended to be a snapshot of what is currently available in the community. Whether or not you participate in the survey will not affect any services that you may receive from KFL&A Public Health. However, your answers will help us to work together with local stakeholders toward a comprehensive, population health-based approach to positive parenting in KFL&A that builds onto existing community resources, programs and services.

The survey should take approximately 10 minutes to complete for each PP initiative in your organization. The information collected from this survey will be shared with other KFL&A Public Health staff and with our partners on the Kingston Child and Youth Services Steering Committee, and the Kingston Parenting Alliance.

A summary of results will also be available for participants by request.

If you have any questions or concerns about this survey, please contact Christian Keresztes, Research Associate, christian.keresztes@kflapublichealth.ca or 613-549-1232 ext. 1512, or Connie Wowk, Mgr. of Reproductive & Child Health, connie.wowk@kflapublichealth.ca , or 613-549-1232 ext. 1534.

Organization name:
Contact name:
Contact email:

Website:

1. If the information above is incomplete and/or inaccurate, please provide the correct information about your organization:

Organization name: 
Street address: 
City: 
Postal Code: 
Website: 
Contact name: 
Contact email: 

For the following questions, please use these two definitions to help you respond:

Positive parenting:

For the purpose of this survey, our working definition of 'positive parenting' comes from the Ontario Public Health Standards guidance document:

Positive parenting is defined as "Positive/warm and consistent parenting with the child ([ i.e.] parents frequently talking, playing, praising, laughing, and doing special things together with their children, [setting] clear and consistent expectations, and [using] non-punitive consequences with regard to child behaviour)" (Standards, Programs & Community Development Branch, Ministry of Health Promotion, 2010, 19).

Activity:

Any planned process linked to resources and intended to achieve a change or outcome in an intended population; an activity can have one or more than one component and more than one strategy. An example of an activity with one component could be a parent education seminar on positive parenting. An example of an activity with more than one component would be a breastfeeding strategy that includes advocacy, policy development, and promotional components.

2. Based on the definitions above, does your organization lead/conduct any positive parenting activities (please include involvement in provincial or national campaigns)?

• Yes
• N
• o(skip pattern) If No, then survey ends and respondent goes to closing page and thank you.

3. Who is involved in planning and/or leading any of the positive parenting activities at your organization? (Check all that apply)

• Community Member

• Community Worker

• Early Childhood Educator

• Nurse
• Nutritionist
• Psychologist/Psychiatrist
• Social Worker
• Teacher
• Other (If other, please list)

4. If positive parenting activities are offered at locations other than your main site (address already provided), please list addresses of these additional locations:

Organization name: 
Street address:
City:
Postal code:

4a. Are your positive parenting activities offered at any other locations?

• Yes (skip pattern)
• No

4b.
Organization name:
Street address:
City:
Postal code: 
(skip pattern #4a &$4b repeat)

You will now be asked a series of questions about each positive parenting activity your organization leads.[Provide explanation of how to enter multiple activities based on FluidSurveys capability]

Please take a moment to think about the number of positive parenting activities your organization leads.
5. What is the name of the positive parenting activity?
6. Which of the following elements of positive parenting does the activity address?
(check all that apply)

• Warm or nurturing parenting (i.e. parents frequently talking, playing, praising, laughing and doing special things together with their children)
• Setting clear and consistent expectations or boundaries
• Using praise for reinforcement of positive behaviours
• Using non-punitive consequences for negative behaviours
• Practicing a child-centred approach
• Encouraging independence while maintaining monitoring behaviours
• Other 

7a. Which of the following strategies does your positive parenting activity include?
(Check all that apply)

• Intervention with families and individuals
• Parent skills training
• Supportive environments
• Parenting information campaigns (skip pattern to #7a)
• Policy and community action
• Other

7b. What types of media did your social marketing and/or health communication (media)
campaign use? (Check all that apply)

• Pamphlets
• Posters
• Billboards
• Newspapers ads
• Television
• Radio
• Email
• E-newsletter
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Blog 
• Other, please specify

8. Please indicate if the positive parenting activity is (Check only one):

• Open to everyone (Universal)
• Only open to certain groups (Targeted)
• Both (Universal and targeted)
• Not Applicable

(Skip pattern - If Targeted or both universal and targeted, skips to 8a.)

8a. Please indicate the populations that you target (e.g. young parents, parents living with low income, parents of children with developmental disabilities, etc.):

9. Your positive parenting activity is geared toward parents of what age range of
children? (Check all that apply)

• Prenatal
• 0-3 years
• 4-7 years
• 8-12 years
• 13-18 years
• Not Applicable

10. Is there a cost to the participants(s) for the positive parenting activity?
(Check only one)

• Fee; subsidy available
• Fee; no subsidy available
• No fee
• Not Applicable

11. Do you collaborate on this positive parenting activity with other organizations?

• Yes (skip pattern) If Yes, survey goes to Q11a
• No

11a. If yes, please list:

12. What informed the development of the positive parenting activity?
(Check all that apply)

• An existing program that has NOT been evaluated
• An existing program that HAS been evaluated
• Client need (community input)
• Client need (staff input)
• Client need (data identified)
• Staff experience of activity delivery
• Literature review and research studies
• Unsure

13. Does your organization lead any additional positive parenting activities?

• Yes (If yes, questions #5-16 are repeated)
• No (Survey stops repeating)

At the end of the 20th activity (only if an organization fills in the survey for 20 separate activities) the following message will appear:

If your organization has more than 20 positive parenting activities, please contact
Christian Keresztes at christian.keresztes@kflapublichealth.ca or at 613-549-1232 ext. 1512
for how to complete.

14. Would you like to receive a summary of the results of this survey?

• Yes
• No

15. Do you have any other comments about the positive parenting activities at your
organization, or about this survey?

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey!
Your responses will help with planning for programs and services for children and youth in KFL&A

• Aboriginal Healthy Babies Healthy Children
• Adult Learning
• Algonquin Lakeshore Catholic District School Board
• Almost Home
• Arden Court Children's Residence
• Assistance for Children with Severe Disabilities
• Autism Ontario - Kingston Chapter
• Bayridge and Henderson Child Care Centres
• Bereaved Families of Ontario, Kingston Region
• Better Beginnings for Kingston Children
• Big Sisters and Big Brothers of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington
• Boy Scouts
• Boys and Girls Club
• Canadian Families and Corrections Network
• Canadian Mental Health Association
• Canadian Mental Health Services
• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
• Child and Family Services
• Childbirth Kingston
• Children's Equal Parenting Association
• Church Athletic League
• City of Kingston - Childcare Programs
• City of Kingston - Community Programs
• City of Kingston - SPARK, ProKids
• City of Kingston - Sports and Recreation
• Community Counselling Centres (K3C)
• Community Living
• Community Midwives of Kingston
• Cornerstone Christian School
• County of Lennox and Addington Public Libraries
• Dawn House
• Day Cares
• Doula Services
• Early Expressions
• Elizabeth Fry Society
• Epilepsy and Seizure Disorder Resource Centre of Eastern Ontario
• Extend-a-Family
• Faith Alive
• Family and Children's Services of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington
• Family Court and Mediation Services
• Family Health Teams
• Family Medicine Health Team
• Family/Youth Shelters
• French Language Schools
• Frontenac Club Day Care Integration Program
• Frontenac County
• Frontenac Mental Health Services
• Girl Guides
• Girls Inc.
• Greater Kingston Girls Minor Hockey Association
• Greater Kingston Minor Hockey Association
• HDH - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• HDH - Child Development Centre
• HDH - Children's Outpatient Clinic
• HDH - Infant Development Program
• HDH - Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy
• HDH - Special Infant Clinic
• Healthy Babies Healthy Children
• Immigrant Services Kingston and Area
• Infant Hearing Program
• John Howard Society
• KAIROS
• Katarokwi Native Friendship Centre
• KFL&A Public Health
• KGH - Genetic Counselling
• KGH - Obstetrics and Gynecology
• KGH - Reproductive Health Clinic
• KGH - Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Program
• KGH/HDH Pediatric Psychiatry
• Kindermusik with Alison Gowan
• King's Town College
• Kingston Block Parents
• Kingston Christian School
• Kingston Community Health Centre
• Kingston Frontenac Early Learning and Child Care
• Kingston Frontenac Public Libraries
• Kingston Interval House
• Kingston Learning Centre
• Kingston Literacy & Skills
• Kingston Military Family Resource Centre
• Kingston Minor Hockey Association
• Kingston Police
• Kingston's ADHD Parent Support Group
• La Leche League
• La Route du Savoir
• Lakeshore School
• LDSB/ALCB Parenting and Family Literacy Centres
• Learning Disabilities Kingston
• Lennox & Addington Addiction and Community Mental Health Services
• Lennox & Addington Interval House
• Lennox and Addington Resources for Children (LARC)
• Limestone Advisory for Childcare Services
• Limestone District School Board
• Limestone District School Board - Parent Council
• Limestone Education through the Arts Program (LEAP)
• Limestone Mediation
• Maple Family Health Team
• Martello Enrichment School
• Ministry of Children and Youth Services
• Morning Star Relief Mission
• Mothers Circle
• Mulberry Waldorf School
• Napanee Area Community Health Centre
• Native Friendship Centre
• North Frontenac Community Services
• One Parent Families Association of Ontario
• Ongwanada Resource Centre
• Ontario Disability Support Program
• Ontario Early Years Centre
• Ontario Early Years Centre Kingston and the Islands
• Ontario Federation of Teaching Parents
• Ontario Provincial Police
• Ontario Works
• Pathways for Children and Youth
• Prince Edward Lennox & Addington Social Services
• Private Speech Pathologists
• Providence Continuing Care Centre
• Queen's University - Faculty of Arts and Science, Student Services
• Queen's University - Faculty of Education
• Queen's University - Student Health Services
• Quintilian School
• Royal Military College
• Rural Visions
• Skate Kingston
• Soccer Clubs
• Social Services
• South East Community Care Access Centre
• St Vincent de Paul Society of Kingston
• St. Lawrence College - Behaviour Science Technology
• St. Lawrence College - Behavioural Psychology
• St. Lawrence College - Early Childhood Education
• St. Lawrence College - Nursing
• St. Lawrence College - Student Services/Student Success
• St. Lawrence Youth Association
• Think First/Parachute
• Town of Greater Napanee
• Townships - Sports and Recreation
• United Way
• Victim Witness Program
• Village Midwifery, Sharbot Lake
• YMCA
• Youth Diversion
• Youth Unlimited

KFL&A Public Health invites you to participate in an online survey about positive parenting/parenting support programs, services, and resources in Kingston, and in Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Counties. We greatly appreciate the 10 minutes per activity that pre-testing has shown it will take to complete the survey.

By taking part in the survey, your answers will help us to work together with local stakeholders toward a comprehensive, population health-based approach to positive parenting in KFL&A that builds onto existing community resources, programs and services. A report summarizing survey results for the region will be shared with participants and ther agencies.

PARTICIPATION IS VOLUNTARY. Whether or not you participate in the survey will not affect any services that you may receive from KFL&A Public Health.

To take part in the survey, please click on the link below to the survey website:

[FLUIDSURVEYS LINK HERE]

Simply click on this address to go directly to the survey. If this does not work, copy and paste this address into the address bar of your Internet browser.

YOU MUST COMPLETE THE SURVEY IN ONE SITTING

A reminder email will be sent next week, and the following week. If you have already completed the survey, please disregard the reminders.

Dear ________,

Recently we sent you a request to participate in a survey of agencies about positive parenting in KFL&A.

If you have already completed the survey, thank you.

If you have not yet done so, please consider adding your agency's activities and perspective. The survey will take just 15 minutes to complete, and will be available through [INSERT DATE HERE].

To take part in the survey, please click on the link below to the survey website:

[INSERT FLUIDSURVEYS LINK HERE]

Simply click on this address to go directly to the survey. If this does not work, copy and paste this address into the address bar of your Internet browser.

Your participation in this survey is strictly voluntary. By taking part in the survey, your answers will help us to work together with local stakeholders toward a comprehensive, population health-based approach to positive parenting in KFL&A that builds onto existing community resources, programs and services. A report summarizing survey results for the region will be shared with participants and their agencies.

Thank you for participating in this survey.

Christian Keresztes, PhD, CPsych
Research and Evaluation Division
christian.keresztes@kflapublichealth.ca
613-549-1232 x1512