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Causes: Education, Preschools
Mission: Mission: Parents as Teachers promotes the optimal early development, learning and health of children by supporting and engaging their parents and caregivers. Vision: All children will develop, learn and grow to realize their full potential.
Programs: Training, curriculum development and certification - there were 5,552 parent educators/ supervisors/ early childhood professionals trained in either core trainings or professional development from july 1, 2014 through june 30, 2015. Curriculum development this year included the continual updating of the online foundational curriculum as well as revisions to the foundational training guide and model implementation guide, creation of an online course around model fidelity and revision of the partnering with teen parents training and book, "so now what? "parent educators attending foundational and model implementation training are granted model certification. Annual renewal is required to maintain certification and foundational curriculum access.
affiliations and program support - the number of parents as teachers ("pat") affiliates at june 30, 2015 was 1,318 in 50 states, district of columbia, u. S. Territories, and 6 foreign countries.
general program - includes:investing in innovations (i3) - services to high need american indian families include home-visits, routine health and developmental screenings for the children, parent group meetings, and resource referrals as needed. Special programs - includes general program support and various other projects