Smarter Parenting

Parenting education platform built as a division of Utah Youth Village. Evidence-based skills library covering 11 behavioral techniques, condition-specific guides for ADHD, autism, and more, plus podcasts, teaching games, and a blog.

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Smarter Parenting

The Challenge

Smarter Parenting needed to make clinical behavioral techniques — used by specialists and mental health professionals — accessible and actionable for everyday parents dealing with real issues like defiance, tantrums, and poor decision-making.

The Solution

Built a WordPress-based education platform with a structured skills library covering 11 Teaching Family Model techniques, condition-specific parenting guides for ADHD, autism, depression, and more, a podcast and video resource hub, interactive teaching games, and sponsor showcase. Organized content so parents can enter through a specific behavior issue and land on the right skill.

Inside the Site

The Start Here page orients new parents and explains the evidence behind the Teaching Family Model lessons.
The Start Here page orients new parents and explains the evidence behind the Teaching Family Model lessons.
Each skill lesson, like ABCs of Behavior, pairs a video with podcast episodes, worksheets, and activities.
Each skill lesson, like ABCs of Behavior, pairs a video with podcast episodes, worksheets, and activities.
Effective Praise walks parents through reinforcing good behavior in four steps.
Effective Praise walks parents through reinforcing good behavior in four steps.
Condition guides, like ADHD, let parents enter through their child's diagnosis and land on the right skill.
Condition guides, like ADHD, let parents enter through their child's diagnosis and land on the right skill.
The teaching games library turns every skill into printable activities parents can run at home.
The teaching games library turns every skill into printable activities parents can run at home.
The ADHD Parenting Podcast extends the library with weekly coaching episodes.
The ADHD Parenting Podcast extends the library with weekly coaching episodes.
The blog covers everyday parenting topics and feeds organic search traffic.
The blog covers everyday parenting topics and feeds organic search traffic.

Results

→ Structured skills library with 11 evidence-based behavioral techniques
→ Condition-specific guides for ADHD, autism, depression, and more
→ Podcast and YouTube resource hub for ongoing education
→ Interactive teaching games for parent-child skill practice
→ Sponsor showcase featuring major Utah foundations

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Availability June 2026
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Based in Salt Lake City, UT