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Photograph of a group of Parent Mentors from the National Parenting Support Commission (NPSC) at the launch of ParentText in 2022. ParentText Jamaica is accessible via WhatsApp and is available via UNICEF’s U-Report Jamaica social messaging tool. More than 1,300 parents have benefitted from ParentText.
Press release
02 March 2023
ParentText Jamaica gains momentum
More than 1,300 parents access mobile messaging service
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce at the Women's Centre
Blog post
20 January 2023
Shelly-Ann to young moms: “I am strong because of my child.”
UNICEF National Ambassador Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce visited the Women’s Centre Foundation of Jamaica (WCJF) to inspire their students
Family Focus: A Discussion Guide for Facilitators
Report
26 July 2022
Discussion guide for parenting facilitators
Helping parents share and learn about positive parenting practices, healthy family relationships and how gender-based violence can harm families. 

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ParentText Live
Press release
14 July 2022
NPSC encourages parents to utilize new UNICEF ParentText WhatsApp service
Latest ParentText live session to further support parents being held Sunday, July at 4pm via @unicefjamaica on Instagram featuring Parenting Partners Caribbean and Children First Agency.
ParentText Jamaica
Press release
17 June 2022
New mobile messaging service to help parents launched
ParentText made available via UNICEF's U-Report social messaging service
Taire Williams
Blog post
27 May 2022
A dad’s main job is to encourage your kids
Father reflects on training other parents to use positive discipline
Photograph of Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation student Lithana Stanly, aged 16, together with her son Tajuan, photographed at the WCJF centre in Port Antonio, Portland. (Photo: Derma Virgo)
Blog post
20 January 2022
Teen mom dreaming big for me and my baby
I want to give him a lot of what I could not get as a child, such as love. Most of all, I want to be his motivator.
Elmo and his mom Mae are at the heart of new content UNICEF and Sesame Workshop are creating to support parents around the world.
Page
30 July 2021
Parenting tips from Sesame Street
Advice from Elmo, his mom and friends
Ricardo Brown and his family
Blog post
21 July 2021
I help parents prevent family violence
Taught to discipline by beating as a child, Ricardo's view changed the day a younger brother threatened to kill him in revenge.
These children were among those in Annotto Bay and Dover, St. Mary to receive educational kits in the latest distribution for young children in previously quarantined communities to help them keep learning at home during COVID-19 pandemic.
Press release
24 July 2020
FFP partners with UNICEF to donate 1,100 educational kits to children
Helping small children keep learning at home in communities previously quarantined due to COVID-19