Parents as Teachers
Parents are their kids’ first and best teachers.
Are you interested in more information related to your child's development? Have you wondered how to support your child as they grow? Parents as Teachers is a home visitation program designed to enhance child development and school readiness offered by Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council.
Parents as Teachers builds strong communities, thriving families, and children who are healthy, safe and ready to learn. This is done by matching parents and caregivers with trained professionals who make regular personal home visits during a child’s earliest years in life, from prenatal through kindergarten. This program is offered at no cost to families in Arapahoe County with kids prenatal to age three who have developmental concerns.
Our staff meet regularly with families to
Help parents understand what comes next in the progression of development so they can understand all four developmental domains (language, cognitive, social-emotional, and motor) as well as their child’s approaches to learning.
Provide up-to-date information that enhances parent knowledge, including on sensitive topics such as maternal depression, substance use, mental health, domestic violence, developmental delays, and exposure to neurotoxins.
Offer easy-to-read handouts designed to reinforce learning between personal visits, on topics ranging from play to sleep to nutrition to family relationships.
Lead activities that explore parent-child interaction and support their children’s growth and development.
Parents as Teachers is an international program.
In the early 1980s Missouri pioneered the concept of helping parents embrace their important role as their child’s first and best teacher. Today, Parents as Teachers continues to equip early childhood organizations and professionals with information and tools that are relevant—and widely applicable—to today’s parents, families and children.
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How to Join
Parents as Teachers is a home visitation program offered at no cost to families in Arapahoe County with kids prenatal to age five.
Want to learn more or start referring families to Parents as Teachers?
An International Footprint
Learn more about how Parents as Teachers is implemented around the world.
Raising a Reader
Our Parents as Teachers program also incorporates Raising a Reader, to give parents and kids more tools to thrive.
Through Raising a Reader, we can bring quality, developmentally appropriate books into homes when we visit families and help them create home-based literacy routines.
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