Indiana Parenting Institute: About PAMI

Parenting Awareness Month Indiana (PAMI), is an annual month-long celebration that acknowledges and pay tribute to people raising children in Indiana and calling attention to the need for effective and responsible parenting and parent education to preserve and advance the wellbeing of Hoosier children and their families.

The first celebration was held in April 2007 in Gary, Indiana with support of Mayor Clay, the National Hook-Up of Black Women, Inc., LoveFeast COGIC, and the Gary Community School Corporation. In 2008, Governor Daniel, Lt. Governor Becky Skillman, Mayor Clay, and State Senator Earline Rogers issued proclamations of support for PAMI.

PAMI continues to spread throughout Northwest Indiana and other Indiana communities.

The goal of the program is to call attention to the need for effective and responsible parenting to protect the wellbeing of children and families in Indiana and reduce the many adverse health and social outcomes from ineffective and impractical parenting.

Each year since PAMI began, the Indiana Parenting Institute, Inc. (IPI) has collaborated with and engaged businesses, schools, churches, organizations, state, and local agencies in coming together to acknowledge the vital role parents perform in raising children to become productive citizens of our communities and society given the opportunity to reach their full potential through effective and responsible parenting.

Community Outreach
The Indiana Parenting Institute, Inc. (IPI) continues to collaborate with and engage a multi-level parenting constituency of parents, caregivers, military families, professionals, and volunteers who work with parents, families, caregivers, schools, youth, organizations, agencies, parent networks, and other groups in Indiana in coming together to acknowledge the vital role parents perform in raising children to become productive citizens of society.

Over the years, PAMI have acknowledged and celebrated parents and families as role models worthy of emulation as well as business leaders and organizations dedicated to advancing and preserving the wellbeing of children and families.

Through PAMI as well as through the use of newspapers, newsletters, cable television, community forums, our online presence, speaking engagements, workshops, seminars, and The Responsible Parenting Campaign to Preserve the Welfare of Hoosier Children, and our weekly half-hour radio program Urban Parenting Talk Radio on WGVE 88.7 FM, we have educated, engaged, and informed parents and the community about the need for effective and responsible parenting to protect the wellbeing of children and provided useful and practical guidelines for strengthen family relationships.

Indiana Parenting Institute continues to explore and implement programs that the nurture, strengthen, preserve, and advance the wellbeing of Hoosier families as with the 2009 launch of The Responsible Parenting Campaign to Preserve the Welfare of Hoosier Children.

Using all available and new resources, PAMI is totally committed to expanding its presence and touching more families in all Indiana communities with the important parenting awareness message that to help a parent is to save a child.