Parents as Teachers National Center Inc

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“Parenting a new baby is one of life's greatest joys. It can also be isolating, hard, and exhausting. It truly takes a village. Parents as teachers (pat) is here to make sure parents and caregivers are not alone. Parents as teachers national center (patnc) strives to: ensure family support and early childhood home visiting are widespread and highly valued. Uphold parents/caregivers as their child's first and most influential teacher. Support positive child health and developmental outcomes. Contribute to building communities that are healthy and equitable. Patnc works in partnership with child and family serving organizations to improve early development, learning and health outcomes for children and families in communities across the united states and internationally. Patnc transforms the science of home visiting, early child development and family engagement into real life resources and tools for professionals that help parents. Patnc focuses on the earliest years of life because those years hold the most vulnerability and opportunity. Research shows that between conception and age three, a child's brain undergoes an impressive amount of change. At birth, it already has about all the neurons it will ever have. It doubles in size in the first year, and by age three it has reached 80 percent of its adult volume. Starting as a small publicprivate partnership pilot project with nearly 1,000 affiliates, individuals and organizations utilizing the pat curriculum throughout 50 states, 115 tribal communities and six other countries. Affiliates replicate the internationally recognized evidence based parents as teachers (pat) home visiting model, curriculum partners and subscribers utilize the researchbased, evidenceinformed foundational and foundational 2 curricula within other home visiting models. Over 1.7 million home visits were delivered in the 2023-2024 program year. The model is backed by 40 years of evidence and is recognized by the substance abuse and mental health services administration (samhsa) as well as the health resources & services administration (hrsa) and meets the evidence based criteria of the federally funded maternal, infant and early childhood home visiting (miechv) program. Pat was one of the first evidence based home visiting models placed on the u.s. Department of health and human services' home visiting evidence of effectiveness (homvee) list in 2009. As of 2024, 48 states have included pat in their miechv plans as an approved home visiting model. Seventeen tribal communities implement pat with tribal miechv funds. Patnc is the developer of the pat home visiting model and associated robust trainings and curricula. The majority of provider curricula and parent facing materials are translated into spanish and select materials are translated in over 12 languages. Core curricula is used by trained professionals. We launched a new mobile app (pat engage) to increase parent educator and parent engagement, with over 300 affiliates. The app contains parentfacing content from the pat curricula as well as national resources such as aap, pbs, and cdc milestones. The research team from the university of applied sciences in special needs education, zurich conducted a randomized controlled trial (rct) and published additional outcomes on parents as teachers including saliva sample collection that indicates involvement in parents as teachers may have lasting biological/dna benefits that address mental health concerns in children. Patnc's rct in partnership with lecroy & milligan continues in arizona with the final year of kindergarten study participant enrollment in 2022. Since 2014, patnc has operated a local pat affiliate, show me strong families (smsf) that serves families in the normandy schools collaborative footprint and the city of st. Louis city. Smsf was born out of the gap in access to evidence based pat home visiting services in these under resourced communities. In the 2023-24 fiscal year, 417 children in 350”

“Professional and contracted services: program service expenses 4,966,572. Management and general expenses 461,964. Fundraising expenses 63,731. Total expenses 5,492,267.”

“PROCESS HAS NOT CHANGED.”