Parents as Teachers Sample Clauses

Parents as Teachers provides a clearer understanding of how children grow and learn and the teaching and learning approaches used in CMSD.

Parents as Teachers. 2. West Central Colorado School Threat Assessment

Parents as Teachers home visiting program is a highly effective program already initiated, but under-resourced in the region, with only 10% of students gaining access to the program. Through Promise Neighborhoods, this program can reach at least 50% of Southeast Alaska students. Parents as Teachers achieves four goals: 1) Increasing parent knowledge of early childhood development and improving parent practices; 2) Providing early detection of developmental delays and health issues; 3) Preventing child abuse and neglect; and 4) Increasing children’s school readiness and success. This program has strong evidence through randomized control trials. It is listed as an approved home visiting model meeting the evidence-based criteria of the Maternal, Infant Early Childhood Visiting Program (MIECHV, 2011) and is included on SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices and is listed as an evidence-based program on the Community-based Child Abuse Prevention Programs. The Parents as Teachers program has been evaluated to show an increase in academic readiness/school readiness, an increase in parents’ involvement in learning, and an increase in language usage in evaluations nationally and within their developmental profiles both in Alaska and Nationally. STEPS Alaska will allow for Parents as Teachers to extend this program to additional parents in Southeast Alaska, with priority given to Alaska Natives, families with safety referrals, or students known to have high ACEs. Services will be provided in a lottery to all parents so as to ensure that the services are not stigmatized. STEPS Alaska will also be able to extend services. Currently, this program is offered from ages zero to three, and through STEPS this will be extended to reach zero-to-five year olds. Parents as Teachers staff (Association for the of Education of Young Children) will work with the school district Family Partnership Coordinator to build strong relationships with the school and provide individualized support for building assets and reducing risks. Collaboration between schools and Parents as Teachers will fill a gap that currently exists between families and learning institutions. Family relationship building and kindergarten readiness will also be reinforced at summer “Ready for Kindergarten camps.”. This partnership, along with higher levels of community coordination addressed in STEPs Alaska will also allow for families to access the services they need and ensure better alignment with the ...