Dr. Dana McDermott
Conference paper
Dana McDermott, Ph.D., C.F.L.E., is a developmental psychologist and a member of Prepare Tomorrow's Parents Board of Directors. She is Director of The Caring Project at Loyola University in Chicago.

This conference paper reprint documents the implementation and evaluation of The Caring Project. It is available online, free of charge, through ERIC.

The Caring Project helps students become more caring, their first step to later becoming nurturing parents, by developing their abilities to know, feel and act in another person's interests. It provides students with caring experiences by surrounding them with adults who model caring in the classroom and who integrate issues of caring into their studies. The project provides consultation, training and implementation. It utilizes Learning How to Care: Education for Parenting, a field tested curriculum focused on monthly parent/infant visits.

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