Parents as Teachers National Center

The Parents as Teachers model is an evidence-based home visiting model designed to ensure young children are healthy, safe and ready to learn. The model has four dynamic components each closely interrelated and integrated: personal visits, group meetings, child screenings and resource network. The goals of Parents as Teachers are to:

1. Increase parent knowledge of early childhood development and improve parenting practices.
2. Provide early detection of developmental delays and health issues
3. Prevent child abuse and neglect.
4. Increase children's school readiness and school success.

Parents as Teachers parent educators work with families to promote parental resilience and
strengthen protective factors, which can lower the likelihood of abuse and neglect. Thanks to home
visiting, parents report they feel less stressed, more motivated to try new parenting strategies, better able
to understand their child’s development, and more likely to read with their child. They also report their
relationship with their child is stronger. More than a dozen outcome studies have been conducted on
the effectiveness of the Parents as Teachers model.
RESULTS SHOW:
| Children’s developmental delays and health problems are detected early, allowing for
more effective intervention
| Children enter kindergarten ready to learn and the opportunity gap is narrowed
| Children achieve school success
| Parents improve their parenting knowledge and skills
| Parents are more involved in their children’s schooling
| Families are more likely to engage in activities that promote children’s language and literacy
| Child abuse and neglect is prevented

More than a dozen outcome studies have been conducted on the effects of the Parents as Teachers model. Evaluations have been supported by various states, school districts, private foundations, universities and research organizations. With each new evaluation, we continue to learn about the children and families served by Parents as Teachers and the long-term impacts on communities. For more information on our research outcomes please visit our website at parentsasteachers.org.

Please see our attached Strategic Framework document for further details.

Goal 1 - Deepen and demonstrate impact - conduct increased levels of research and evaluation that strengthen out evidence base for all programming services. (prioritize research investments, offer highest quality training and development opportunities for direct service providers, maintain the most relevant and robust home visiting curricula, maintain a direct service "learning lab.")

Goal 2 - Build sustainable growth - grow the Parents as Teachers network to impact more families and children. (expand family reach, expand state/country office infrastructure, grow number of trainers, establish new collaborations with affiliates, from philanthropic fund raising)

Goal 3 - Expand our leadership role in the community - Expand Parents as Teachers' leadership role in the field of early childhood and parenting support through advocacy, convening, partnerships, collaborations and cross-sector initiatives. (grow advocacy efforts, expand home visiting collaborations with child serving organizations, increase parent voice in work)

Goal 4 - Elevate awareness and understanding - Elevate awareness and understanding of Parents as Teachers in order to successfully and strategically expand its impact and support its growth. (build a power brand, increase consistent messaging, clarify product target markets)

Goal 5 - Strengthen organizational effectiveness - Strengthen organizational practices, structures and culture to fulfill the mission, vision and goals, and align with values and operation principles of the organization. (weave DEIA through all efforts, engage in continuous quality improvement, improve personnel and professional development, strengthen internal systems/structures/capacity)

We measure our success in lives changed. For 37 years we have been a catalyst to improve outcomes for families.
Each day, in all corners of the United States and across the globe, we provide proven tools, resources, and knowledge that community agencies and home visiting professionals can use to strengthen the lives of parents, caregivers, and children right in their homes.

Our organization supports over 220,000 children annually through over 4,800 model certified Parent Educators in over 1,000 Parents as Teachers affiliates. We also provide information through our curriculum to an additional 3,600 professionals in other evidence based home visiting models. Parents as Teachers is delivered across all 50 states, in over 100 tribal communities and in five additional countries.

Parents as Teachers is the most replicated home visiting model in the United States and has invested in a structure poised for quality programmatic and sustainable growth. The organization maintains the highest level of affiliate support, home visiting parenting education curricula resources, and fidelity to it's evidence based model. It has also made a significant commitment and investment to language access becoming the first home visiting model in the United States to have a robust and complete translation of its Foundational curriculum including direct service provider training and materials and external parent facing materials in the Spanish language.

Please see attached our recently launched strategic plan for full plans through 2025 including key objectives.

In the early 1980's 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. Since 1985, Parents as Teachers has expanded to all 50 states and five other countries and has grown to be the largest and most replicated home visiting model in the United States.