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Provides at-home education and resources for young immigrant/refugee children to support their growth before entering kindergarten. The two-year program focuses on developing essential early literacy skills, including teaching children how to read in English, while empowering parents to become their child’s first teacher. Offers bi-weekly home visits and educational materials to foster a nurturing and supportive learning environment.

Operates more than 30 Head Start/ECEAP/Early Head Start centers in Spokane County. Provides support for families, encourages parent involvement and coordinates child health care and nutrition. Head Start/ECEAP: Offers full- and partial-day preschool programs for children ages 3-pre-kindergarten. Early Head Start: Child development program provided at the center and in-home for families during pregnancy and those with infants and toddlers up to age 3.

A free program that matches parents with a trained Parent Educator (PE) who will meet in the parents home or a convenient location like your local library or park. The PE is an experienced person who can answer questions about pregnancy or being a parent and can help connect parents to services for them and their children. Home Visiting, Family Support Program.

Through home visits, case managers increase parent knowledge of early childhood development, improves parenting practices and increase children’s school readiness and success. Provides early detection of developmental delays and health issues. Uses the Parents as Teachers and the Parent Child+ models. Provides a kindergarten readiness program that helps parents close the achievement gap and give students a boost in the classroom setting.

The ParentChild+ is a West Valley School District-wide home-based literacy and parenting program, serving families since 2001. ParentChild+ works with 2 and 3 year olds and their parents, using a gentle approach, modeling quality reading, conversation, and play emphasizing the parent's role as the child's first teacher. Essential to the program is respect for privacy and the ethnic and cultural heritage of all families. Through the program, parents experience the joy and value of reading, talking, and playing with their children. Each family receives 46 toys and books over a two year period within the context of 96 home visits. The home visitors work to generate excitement about learning and verbal interaction in the home through books, toys and play.  These books and educational toys are given as gifts to the families to continue the learning process. Program provides the following: -  Free books and educational toys -  Promotes parent-child interaction -  Reaches families at home in their own environment -  Family events twice a year -  Screens children to assess development in speech, language, and hearing -  Connects families to additional community resources -  A positive bridge to entering school ready to learn

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

Offers an evidence‐based home visitation case management for pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorders. Helps mothers build healthy families and prevent future births of children exposed to alcohol and drugs. Provides clients outreach and engagement, structured goal setting, problem-solving, practical assistance, and consistent coaching. Seeks to help community service providers understand how to work more effectively with this population and works to ensure that clients and families receive needed services. Pregnant and parenting women are enrolled for three years. Clients are not asked to leave the program if they relapse or experience setbacks.

Supports pregnant and parenting mothers with alcohol and/or drug use disorders that impede their ability to care for their children and live healthy functioning lives. Helps build and maintain healthy, independent family lives. Assures that children are in a safe and stable homes. Prevents future births of alcohol/drug exposed children. Thurston County is the 12th county in WA state to adopt this case management model.

Offers a three-year home visitation and case management program for extremely high-risk substance abusing pregnant and parenting women. Assists mothers in obtaining treatment, maintaining recovery, and resolving the complex problems associated with their substance abuse. Links families with community resources. Helps guarantee the children are in a safe environment and receiving appropriate health care. Mothers are not asked to leave the program if they relapse or experience setbacks.

The Parent‐Child Assistance Program (PCAP) is an award winning, evidence‐informed case management and advocacy model for pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorders. PCAP goals are to help mothers build healthy families and prevent future births of children exposed prenatally to alcohol or drugs. Serving Clallam and Jefferson Counties.

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

Provides family support through its Young Children and Family Programs of the Palouse (YCFP), which offers home visiting and group-based parenting programs for families in Whitman County. Boost Collaborative strives to build on each family's individual strengths and abilities rather than identifying and fixing a "problem." Services are provided at no or minimal cost to families. Offers the following: - Parents as Teachers home visits for families with children ages birth to 3 years - Nurturing Parenting home visiting for families with children ages birth to 3 years - Parenting the Strong-Willed Child home visiting for families with children ages Birth to 3 years

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

Strives to deliver high quality, trauma informed resources to underserved and communities at risk, improving the health of the public and mitigate health disparities. Including: -Car Seat Safety -Breastfeeding - LIFT (Lactation & Infant Feeding in Thurston) -Children & Youth with Special Healthcare Needs -Family Intervention Nurse -Parent Mental Health -Parent Support Resources -Nurse Family Partnership -Nurse Referral -Mental Health & Suicide Prevention -Support Groups

Partners first-time moms with a home visitor to support a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. A registered nurse will visit clients throughout the pregnancy and until the baby is 2 years old. Nurses provide resources to help clients establish goals.

Connects women having their first baby with a personal nurse who visits with them during pregnancy and until the baby turns 2. Nurses generally meet mothers about every two weeks. Visits can be at home or in other places. Provides support with: Having a healthy pregnancy and healthy baby; Becoming a prepared and confident parent; Building a network of supporting; Connecting to resources; Completing schooling and/or finding work.

Parents as Teachers is a nationwide evidence based home visiting program that supports the optimal development of young children by facilitating personal visits centered around positive parenting practices and early childhood development. Children receive regular health and developmental screenings and families are connected to the resources needed to thrive. Parents as Teachers services are available in both English and Spanish, and both Jefferson and Clallam Counties. This program is supported in part by funding from the Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF) and the Department of Social and Health Services. In 2023, First Step Family Support Center Parents as Teachers program completed the Parents as Teachers Quality Endorsement and Improvement Process and earned the highest designation: Blue Ribbon Affiliate status. Being named a Blue Ribbon Affiliate affirms that First Step Family Support Center Parents as Teachers program is among the highest quality members of the home visitation and parent education field, implementing the evidence-based Parents as Teachers model with fidelity and quality.

Provides child protective services and child welfare services to ensure the health and safety of Skokomish Indian Tribe children.  Services include outreach, community education, support groups and parenting education.

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

A program that provides visits from specially trained nurses for women who are having their first baby. Nurses are able to visit at home or another location that works for the client throughout their pregnancy and up until the child turns the age of 2.

Early Head Start services promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of infants and toddlers by providing educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families, including developmental screenings. Services for parents include home visits, parenting classes, parent support and networking. Full day/full year center-based or home-based models are available.

Provides a 3-year, intensive, home visitation program for mothers who experienced substance use disorder during pregnancy. PCAP helps mothers access services, achieve and maintain recovery, and create a healthy family environment.

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.