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"I can't imagine where she'd be without the services she received through Parents as Teachers."
Christine's parent educator took an active role in Christina's life, helping her finish high school while learning to be a parent. Read more.
"I really was not a parent before Parents as Teachers."
Genni feels that her parent educator, Darlene, was there for her every step of the way and helped her understand what it truly means to be a parent. Read more.
"We couldn't escape the feeling that we had a daughter in China."
Terri really credits Parents as Teachers for helping her and her husband connect with Marissa and helping connect Marissa with art. Read more.
Missouri mother ignites movement, remains Parents as Teachers advocate
While seven months pregnant with her daughter, Michelle decided she had to stand up to the Missouri state budget cuts to the Parents as Teachers program funding. Read more.
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- National Children's Study
This national research effort to examine the effects of the environment and genetics on the growth, development, and health of children across the United States is looking for participating families. To learn more, see the study overview and watch a video about the study, visit the National Study web site. - PAT aids in development of child abuse prevention assessment tool
Staff to provide consultation for first-of-its-kind project focusing on development of home visitation assessment tool measuring child abuse prevention programs. - $88 million in grants awarded for maternal/infant/early childhood home visiting
Grants provided under Affordable Care Act support evidence-based home visiting programs for families with young children. - An Early Childhood Investment with a High Public Return
Read two Federal Reserve Bank economists' analysis in The Regional Economist
July 2010
- MO Dept. of Elementary & Secondary Education webinar
1-hour (free) recorded webinar with Commissioner Nicastro and Sue Stepleton highlighting funding and the transition to the refined PAT model - MO Business Leader Summit
From the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: James Heckman makes the economic case for investing in disadvantaged children. - Here's where business should be investing!
Making the case for investment in early childhood programs - Andrea Bricker
Healthy Beginnings in MI says PAT is a good fit for health services. - Carol Keaster
What happened when Cascade County Health Dept. in MT started offering PAT services?
- Autism Resources 2011
Reliable resources on ASDs for early childhood professionals and families
2011 - Parents as Teachers News
Growing Together
Winter 2012 - Parents as Teachers News
Driven by Data
Fall 2011 - Parents as Teachers News
Finding Funding: The Numbers Tell the Story
Summer 2011 - Parents as Teachers News
Growing awareness from the ground up
Spring 2011 - Parents as Teachers News
From intuition to impact: capturing the power of the parent educator
Winter 2011 - Strategic Plan
Planning for the future of children and families. - Directory of National Early Intervention Resources
2011
Affiliate Quality Assurance Blueprint
Quality is critical to the ongoing success of a Parents as Teachers affiliate. Our Affiliate Quality Assurance Blueprint is designed to help affiliates regularly monitor compliance with the Essential Requirements as they pursue continuous quality improvement.
The Affiliate Quality Assurance Blueprint identifies some central quality assurance and improvement activities in which supervisors should engage with the involvement of parent educators, including:
- Development of parent educator core competencies
- Review of documentation
- Review of summary data
- Observation of service delivery
The Blueprint specifies not only the quality assurance activities within each of the above categories, but also the staff who should be involved in each activity and the frequency with which each activity should take place. Using the Blueprint on an ongoing basis and annually completing the focused compliance assessment (part of the Affiliate Performance Report) together lay the foundation for the comprehensive affiliate assessment process every four years.
For example, here is one of the quality assurance activities in the area of Core Competencies Development.
Quality Assurance Activity |
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| Core Competencies development: Parents as Teachers Foundational Training provides a strong foundation for the core competencies which are then developed further through experience, additional professional development and reflective supervision. | ||
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PAT Core Competencies Self-Assessment |
Parent educator & supervisor: Parent educator should self-assess & supervisor should assess using the PAT Core Competencies Self-Assessment instrument, and both should share results |
New parent educators complete following training & again at 6 months. All parent educators complete annually |
The existing Parents as Teachers quality standards and accompanying self-assessment guidelines are currently being revised to be more clearly aligned with the Essential Requirements and new data reporting expectations. Please note that the process will be titled Affiliate Assessment to clarify that this assessment of quality is at the program level, not the individual level.
One of the features of the revised Affiliate Assessment is that it will build upon an affiliate’s ongoing quality assurance activities and data collection, so it is important for supervisors to become familiar with the Affiliate Quality Assurance Blueprint and begin to incorporate it into supervision and management.
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Federal Home Visiting Programs
Parents as Teachers is an approved home visiting model meeting the evidence-based criteria of the Maternal, Infant, Early Childhood Home Visiting program (MIECHV) and considered a promising approach for the Tribal Home Visiting Grantees. Recorded webinars highlighting the resources Parents as Teachers has to support the development of home visiting plans are temporarily under construction. Please check back later.
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