Parental Skills Program to Be Adapted for Cambodian Groups

A successful Long Beach program that has helped some Latinos and African Americans become more effective parents is being extended to the Cambodian community.

Classes will be offered on proper ways to discipline children, handling homework and classroom problems and identifying children involved in substance abuse or gang activities.

“We have made it as relevant as possible to the Cambodian population,” said steering committee member Chey Chan. “We have translated key sections of the curriculum into Khmer so that the instructors will have an easier time.”

A two-day workshop will begin Oct. 1 so that staff members from schools, agencies and religious organizations can learn how to run the program, said Dr. Kerby Alvy, the project’s coordinator and executive director of the Center for the Improvement of Child Caring.