Good parenting training in managing child care at child social welfare institutions in the city of bandung

10.2478/bjlp-2023-0000084

Abstract

Child Welfare Institutions/Orphanages are institutions engaged in the social sector to help children who no longer have parents. Good parenting in these institutions is very important. In the results of initial observations, a number of problems were found which became obstacles in implementing childcare at LKSA Taman Harapan Muhammadiyah and LKSA Kristen Dana Mulia. These problems include the lack of understanding of caregivers about good parenting, the lack of intensity of individual care for foster children, and caregivers' lack of attention to the development of foster children. The purposes of this study were (1) planning, (2) organizing, (3) implementing, and (4) evaluating good parenting training at the Taman Harapan Child Care Social Welfare Institution and the Christian Child Care Social Welfare Institution Dana Mulia. The approach in this study uses a qualitative approach. descriptive research method in the form of case studies. The results of this study indicate that there is an effectiveness of good parenting training at LKSA Taman Harapan Muhammadiyah and LKSA Kristen Dana Mulia which can be viewed from planning, organizing, implementing, and monitoring evaluations. Supporting factors in the implementation of good parenting training are the participation of caregivers and support from donors, the inhibiting factor is the time of schedule adjustments with caregivers at LKSA Taman Harapan Muhammadiyah and LKSA Kristen Dana Mulia. There was a change in parenting applied by LKSA Taman Harapan Muhammadiyah and LKSA Kristen Dana Mulia after the good parenting training was held, namely from authoritarian parenting to democratic parenting