This is Parents as Teachers

Parents as Teachers is the trusted resource providing a proven home visiting model for the most respected organizations and professionals who work in the early childhood and education continuum. We work through a national network to help young children grow up healthy, safe and ready to learn.

Parents as Teachers is unique.

Our program partners welcome not just first-time parents, but families with multiple children.
Families can enter our program at any time along the continuum of pregnancy to kindergarten.
Our partners serve a broad and diverse population, so our model addresses developmental needs of any child, including those in vulnerable situations.
Parent educators are professionals who represent a variety of disciplines: early childhood, education, nursing, social work and others.

The Parents as Teachers model offers our partners four service delivery components that work together dynamically to result in proven outcomes for children and families.

Through personal visits, parent educators:
- partner with families to establish parenting goals that are developmentally appropriate for their children.
- model, consult, and coach parents on parenting challenges and engage parents in parent-child interaction so parents can better support their child's development/emerging skills.
- work with parents to increase knowledge about appropriate parenting practices, to increase their positive involvement in their children's lives, and to provide concrete support in times of need.
Through group meetings, parent educators:
- create a sense of community by pulling families together in group meeting settings to learn from and support each other.
Through screenings, parent educators:
- monitor children for developmental progress around cognitive, language, social-emotional, and motor skills, and spot vision/hearing/health issues.
Through linkages to resources, parent educators:
- connect families to community resources, both for follow up services as well as to provide support.