Helping Our Toddlers: Developing Our Children's Skills (HOTDOCS) is a parenting program for childhood behavior up to age 5. Beginning in 2006, the program developed by USF’s Kathleen Armstrong was funded through the Children’s Board of Hillsborough County to provide parenting classes on encouraging positive behavior among young children.
Heather Agazzi of USF Health has adapted the program for parents of elementary school age children. With DOCS K-5, each cohort of adults attends sessions focusing on everyday hassles and behavior issues. “We adopted the program to be more relevant for the types of social, emotional and behavioral challenges that children age five to age 11 present in everyday life,” says Agazzi.
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