PARENT RESOURCES
Parents as Teachers
Parents are Children's First Teachers
The concept for Parents as Teachers was developed in the 1970s when Missouri educators noted that children were beginning kindergarten with varying levels of school readiness. Research showed that greater parent involvement is a critical link in the child's development of learning skills, including reading and writing.
Early childhood professionals suggested that a program to provide early detection of developmental delays and health issues, and parent education to help parents understand their role in encouraging their child's development from the beginning could help improve school readiness and parent involvement.
With funding from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and The Danforth Foundation, Parents as Teachers began in 1981 in Missouri as a pilot project for first-time parents of newborns. Recognizing the program's benefits and cost effectiveness, the Missouri legislature provided state funding in 1985 to implement Parents as Teachers programs in all Missouri school districts. Since 1985, Parents as Teachers has expanded to all 50 states and six other countries.
Parents as Teachers fosters lifelong learning, lifelong bonds
Parents as Teachers internationally recognized network of organizations and professionals supports hundreds of thousands of families in all 50 states as well as many other countries through a proven parent education model featuring intimate, in-home visits with parents and children. Parents as Teachers affiliates equip parents with knowledge and resources to prepare their children for a stronger start in life and greater success in school. For more information, visit www.ParentsAsTeachers.org.
The concept for Parents as Teachers was developed in the 1970s when Missouri educators noted that children were beginning kindergarten with varying levels of school readiness. Research showed that greater parent involvement is a critical link in the child's development of learning skills, including reading and writing.
Early childhood professionals suggested that a program to provide early detection of developmental delays and health issues, and parent education to help parents understand their role in encouraging their child's development from the beginning could help improve school readiness and parent involvement.
With funding from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and The Danforth Foundation, Parents as Teachers began in 1981 in Missouri as a pilot project for first-time parents of newborns. Recognizing the program's benefits and cost effectiveness, the Missouri legislature provided state funding in 1985 to implement Parents as Teachers programs in all Missouri school districts. Since 1985, Parents as Teachers has expanded to all 50 states and six other countries.
Parents as Teachers fosters lifelong learning, lifelong bonds
Parents as Teachers internationally recognized network of organizations and professionals supports hundreds of thousands of families in all 50 states as well as many other countries through a proven parent education model featuring intimate, in-home visits with parents and children. Parents as Teachers affiliates equip parents with knowledge and resources to prepare their children for a stronger start in life and greater success in school. For more information, visit www.ParentsAsTeachers.org.
| Studies of Teens Challenge Us to Keep Learning |
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
The vast majority of teen pregnancies (at least 82 percent) are unintended. But research has shown that science-based, comprehensive sexuality education, contraceptive access, and youth development programs can help young people make choices that can protect them from unintended pregnancy.
Since statistical research show that teens need youth-friendly services and complete, accurate information about abstinence, and contraception in order to protect themselves from unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), Center for Academic Excellence will play a pivotal role in providing a youth-friendly environment. Parents signed permission is required. Center for Academic Excellence will help youths to envision a positive future for themselves: one in which education, employment, and healthy relationships are possible. Further, empowering youth, and means pregnant or parenting teens should be supported, not stigmatized, by both government and culture. Youths need a second chance to know that someone believes in them.
For additional research on adolescent pregnancy, check Teen Pregnancy Prevention Replication Study: Summary of the Short-Term Impacts of Safer Sex Intervention Research Brief: https://aspe.hhs.gov/system/files/pdf/210796/SSIbrief.pdf
Since statistical research show that teens need youth-friendly services and complete, accurate information about abstinence, and contraception in order to protect themselves from unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), Center for Academic Excellence will play a pivotal role in providing a youth-friendly environment. Parents signed permission is required. Center for Academic Excellence will help youths to envision a positive future for themselves: one in which education, employment, and healthy relationships are possible. Further, empowering youth, and means pregnant or parenting teens should be supported, not stigmatized, by both government and culture. Youths need a second chance to know that someone believes in them.
For additional research on adolescent pregnancy, check Teen Pregnancy Prevention Replication Study: Summary of the Short-Term Impacts of Safer Sex Intervention Research Brief: https://aspe.hhs.gov/system/files/pdf/210796/SSIbrief.pdf
