Causes: Child Abuse Prevention, Crime & Law, Domestic Violence, Family Services, Human Services

Mission: Through education, support, advocacy and research, Nurturings seeks to strengthen families and increase awareness of the importance of secure attachment, ultimately helping to increase child flourishing and reduce and prevent child abuse, behavioral disorders, criminal acts and other serious social problems.

Results: Nurturings is based in 27 years of service to families around the world. Families report foregoing physical punishment and shaming of children, increased communication and understanding, confidence in parenting their infants and children, a feeling of support for the parenting, as well as desire to help others by volunteering. The impact is far reaching as these children grow with respectful treatment and experience empathy, confidence, and interdependence, and begin to pass it on.

Target demographics: All parents and caregivers of children, professionals serving families.

Geographic areas served: Nurturings serves internationally with donations received from Tennessee, California, Florida, Texas, New York, Indiana, Washington, Louisiana, Missouri, and South Carolina

Programs: Nurturings trains Leaders around the world, hosts regular support groups, online forums, and parent support, conducts advocacy, research, and outreach programs, provides parenting educator training, parenting education classes, consulting and assistance to parenting groups, hosts the blog #normalizenurturing, issues of the magazine The Attached Family, and several enewletters, such as API Links, as well as a Journal of research, teleseminars, podcast, book club, AP Month in October, and many other programs.