Evidence-based family engagement and social-emotional learning
In partnership with school districts and Head Starts, we work to build a more impactful early education experience — one that centers culture and lived experience, engages parents as partners, and supports children's social-emotional well-being – to help unlock the full promise of early childhood education.
Professional Development
Professional Development
supports school staff to form strong, culturally responsive relationships with families and promote children’s social-emotional well-being.
Parenting Program
Parenting Program supports families to promote children’s early learning and development. In a warm, predictable space, parents build community and explore evidence-based ways to support children's development -- with a focus on families' autonomy, lived experience, culture and expertise.
Friends School
Friends School, a classroom-based curriculum, supports children to build foundational social-emotional learning skills. Children learn to navigate strong feelings, develop a positive sense of self (including cultural identity), build healthy relationships, and have fun!
Proven Outcomes
Rigorous studies show that
ParentCorps leads to:
50% lower risk
of mental health problems
44% reduction
in chronic absenteeism
24% lower risk
of reading below grade level
ParentCorps Professional
Development leads to:
Improved
home-school connection
Increased
trust between parents and teachers
Building a Future Where All Children Thrive
In working with families, we aim to honor parents and caregivers’ own expertise, and support them to achieve their self-determined goals for their children.
In working with educators, we aim to bring culture and lived experience into the conversation to support authentic relationships with families.
In partnering with system leaders, we aim to close entrenched opportunity gaps that leave far too many children behind.
Lastly, we’re dedicated to listening, learning and co-designing with our partners so we can help build a future where all children thrive.
“What I got out of that experience was how it made me feel… It really just kind of reaffirmed that in our humanity that we could have fun and have joy and build relationships with our own children and build relationships with each other as adults.”
Tom Sheppard, Parent
“My favorite experience is witnessing how the parents bonded and supported each other during and after the sessions. They provided encouraging words, resources and ideas that worked for them in difficult situations. To me, this meant that they felt safe to be vulnerable and they seemed to find comfort in the fact that they were not parenting alone and had someone to listen to and share their experiences with.”
Mary Woods-Miles, Family Engagement Specialist, Starfish Family Services, Detroit
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