Madres para Niños: Engaging Latina Mothers as Consultees to Promote Their Children’s Early Elementary School Achievement

ABSTRACT

The Madres para Niños (MpN) program uses consultee-centered consultation as a vehicle to help immigrant Latino parents focus and reframe their preexisting child advocacy skills toward their children’s successful transition into elementary school in a new geographic and cultural context. This article describes the Latina mother’s experience as consultee during the MpN ten-week group consultation process.

Additional information

Funding

This research was funded primarily by the Foundation for Child Development with additional support from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and the School of Education at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Notes on contributors

Steven E. Knotek

Steve Knotek is the coordinator of the School Psychology Program at the University North Carolina Chapel Hill. His research focuses on using consultation to support consultees’ (especially teachers, parents and coaches) efforts to create developmentally positive environments for their students, children and athletes to succeed and thrive. Additionally, Dr. Knotek researches the practice of implementation support coaching within an Implementation Science framework to support organization’s adoption of innovations.

Marta Sánchez

Marta Sánchez is an assistant professor of Social Foundations of Education at the Watson College of Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and affiliated faculty at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. She is also a qualitative researcher focusing on the educational experiences of Latino/a children, their families and teachers in the southeastern United States and education reform in México. She holds a doctoral degree in Culture, Curriculum and Change from the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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