One of the pilot programs of Parents as Teachers was created in Hollister, Missouri nearly 35 years ago, and is still incredibly impactful today. Despite some budget cuts in 2008, Missouri pushed hard to keep the program functioning and providing support to families from pregnancy and through the first five years of the child’s life, […]
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Parents as Teachers as an organization is primarily oriented towards helping at-risk families with pre-school age children (0-5 years old), especially with concerns of physical health, literacy, and school readiness. However, in Kansas, the organization has partnered with Wichita Presbyterian Manor, a home for the elderly, to sponsor once a month playgroups for children and
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Healthy Families New York has 38 different programs state-wide geared towards helping new at-risk mothers. Sate officials credit these programs as the primary reason why newborn removal to foster care has plummeted in New York, even while those statistics are on the rise in other states. The New York Office of Children and Family Services
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The faster people are able to receive help, and the shorter their wait time, the easier it is for them to get better. This statement is something that the directors of operation at Healthy Families America have taken to heart, and they have made HFA one of 6 members of the National Evidence-Based Home Visiting
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The Arkansas Department of Health recently received nearly 8 million dollars in federal funding to support home visitation, early childhood health and education programs state-wide, which can make a big difference for both parents and children. The Department of Health is implementing the Nurse-Family program across the state as well as partnering with Arkansas Children’s
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The US department of Health and Human Services awarded the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visitation program over 9 million dollars in Wisconsin. This award shows a more than 8.5 million dollar increase from the award from the previous fiscal year, which means there will be massive expansion of home visitation across Wisconsin in
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Parents as Teachers co-hosted a reading event with the Carthage Family Literacy Council in Missouri that made the news cycle. The event was hosted in order to promote early childhood education and developing reading skills of pre-school age children. The Carthage Family Literacy Council’s mission is “to promote early reading to babies (starting at birth)
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Washington University in St. Louis received a 3.3 million dollar grant from the National Institute of Health, and has elected to partner with Parents as Teachers in an ongoing effort to slim down the national epidemic of obesity. The grant money will fund research at 24 home-visitation sites nationwide, and will help improve the health
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The national organization, Parents as Teachers (PAT), recently received a multi-million dollar grant that will help support the education of at-risk children and families across the country. The grant is awarded by Ballmer Group, a philanthropic organization dedicated to improving economic mobility and education of communities and children that struggle socioeconomically. With this grant, PAT
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In an effort to further engage it’s diverse community, Florida International University (FIU) has partnered with Parents as Teachers, as well as another organization called the Positive Parenting Program in order to provide much-needed support to the Miami-Dade community. Not only does this collaborative effort allow FIU to provide home visits geared towards early education,
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