Promoting non-violent parenting

Facilitators promote the recommended actions of the Ottawa Charter of health Promotion (1996) which provides a socio-ecological framework for parenting initiatives and aims to: (1) put parenting on the agenda of policy makers; (2) recognize the inextricable links between people and their environment and assess the impact of a rapidly changing environment on people in their role as parents; (3) strengthen community action by using a community development approach to parenting; (4) develop personal and life skills so increasing options available to people to exercise greater control over their own lives; (6) reorient health services -- open the channels between the health sector and a broader social, political, economic and physical environment.