We Don’t Just Hope for Strong Citizens. We Grow Them.

Civic Seeds USA helps families and communities grow the skills that strong relationships, healthy communities, and democracy depend on.

Every day as parents shape their children, we shape the future of our communities, our country, and our democracy. Civic Seeds will lead you through the small conversations today that grow powerful adults tomorrow, because having a voice in the world starts with having a voice at home.

Civic Seeds USA creates educational resources, programs, and family engagement tools that help parents grow powerful citizens by translating civic values into everyday parenting practices.

We spend a lot of time trying to strengthen democracy downstream. Civic Seeds starts upstream, in the everyday places where people first learn how to listen, speak up, disagree, take responsibility, care for others, and contribute to something larger than themselves.

The family is America's first civic institution. Powerful citizens are formed at home.

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How Civic Seeds Helps:

POWER PARENTING: Grow the person.

Parents intentionally develop the character, thinking, relationships, and capabilities children need to thrive, to know they have the power to make a difference.

PARENTS IN ACTION: Connect the person to the world.

Families connect those developing skills to community life, understanding how communities and democracy work, noticing issues around them, building relationships, and taking meaningful action.

The Civic Seeds Method

The Civic Seeds Method is a philosophy and two frameworks to help parents raise children who know who they are, what they stand for, and how to make a positive difference in the world.

Introducing the Power Parenting Academy

A supportive community for parents raising the next generation of thoughtful, capable, compassionate citizens.

Inside you’ll find:

✔ Parenting workshops

✔ Live discussions

✔ Practical family activities

✔ Downloadable guides

✔ Quarter Hours of Power

✔ Encouragement from parents walking the same journey

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Work with Deitra

Speaking engagements inspire audiences to see parenting, family, and community in a new way.

Interactive workshops go a step further, giving participants practical tools they can use immediately to strengthen their families and help raise confident, thoughtful, capable children who are prepared to make a positive difference.

Examples of Speaking Topics Include:

America's First Civic Institution: Why Strong Communities Start with Families
Power Parenting: Raising Children Who Know Who They Are, What They Stand For, and How to Make a Difference
Disagreeing Well Starts at Home: Raising Children Who Can Navigate Conflict
Planting Seeds, Growing Power: Preparing Children to Lead, Contribute, and Care for Their Communities
Having a Voice in the World Starts with Having a Voice at Home

Examples of Workshop Topics Include:

Build Your Family Culture: Turning Values into Principles, Rules, and Traditions
The Family Meeting: Building Voice, Responsibility, and Leadership at Home
From Family Values to Family Action: Putting What You Believe Into Practice
Parents in Action: Bite-Size, Right-Size Ways Families Can Make a Difference
Raising Critical Thinkers in a Complicated World
Quarter Hour of Power: Small Conversations That Build Character and Citizenship
Disagreeing Well: Teaching Children to Navigate Conflict and Solve Problems Together

Looking for something different?

Civic Seeds can tailor presentations and workshops for parent groups, schools, faith communities, civic organizations, conferences, and organizations serving children and families.

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A Note from Deitra

As a family and community policy analyst, community health nurse, educator, and parent of four children, I’ve spent years thinking about what helps families and communities thrive.

I believe parents have more influence than they realize. The everyday conversations, decisions, and values we share with our children shape not only their futures, but the future of our communities.

Civic Seeds was created to help parents recognize that power and to offer practical ways to nurture the next generation of thoughtful, engaged citizens.