National Center For Parents
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As a university-wide center, the National Center for Parents (NCP) focuses on broad issues affecting parents that transcend the traditional boundaries of race, color, national origin, and socioeconomic status. The NCP seeks to answer the questions that affect how parents are valued, empowered, and mobilized in our society so that our children can reach adulthood safely and healthfully.
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Mission
Identify the need for and impact of policies affecting parents, interpret and disseminate that knowledge, and provide impact statements and research to improve those policies. The parental impact statement will show how policy affects parents, makes a difference in their lives, and provide resolutions that acknowledge reality.
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Vision
Renowned for providing parental impact statements that national, state, and local governements, non-profit agencies, and businesses use to guide development of policy relating to parents and children. The National Center for Parents accomplishes its vision by becoming the nation's leading university-community based model addressing laws and policies that affect parents through collaborative, multidiscipilnary research, education, and service.
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