Partner
Evidence-based family engagement and social-emotional learning
In close partnership with school districts and Head Start organizations, we work to build a different 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.
Key Characteristics of a Successful Partnership
Public school district or Head Start grantee that serves economically disadvantaged children and families
Strong leadership committed to closing opportunity gaps
Investment in enhancing family engagement to build strong partnership with families
Interest in new ways to support children’s social-emotional well-being
Interest in teacher training emphasizing culturally responsive practice
What ParentCorps Offers
Professional Development supports early childhood educators and staff to form strong, culturally responsive relationships with families and promote children’s social-emotional well-being.
Parenting Program, a 12-session group-based program, supports pre-K families to promote children's early learning and development.​​
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Friends School, a classroom based social-emotional learning curriculum, surpports pre-K children to develop foundational SEL skills critical to their school success in K-12.
How We Partner for Sustainability
One of the key pillars of ParentCorps is that we don’t simply provide services and leave. Rather, we focus on capacity-building to help systems to center families and child social-emotional well-being in the early education experience. We are committed to integrating in partner systems and building together year by year. What this looks like over time:
In close partnership, ParentCorps leads all training and coaching
Through a train the trainer model, ParentCorps supports partners to take the lead on training and coaching
Partners lead training and coaching to fully embed ParentCorps in their pre-K experience. This unlocks:
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New possibilities to expand across all pre-K sites
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Long-term sustainability
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Lower-cost partnership
Meaningful
Collaboration
Unlike out-of-the-box solutions, ParentCorps includes high-quality, responsive training and coaching. Our coaches have extensive experience in early childhood education, classroom teaching, child and family mental health, and more, and work hand-in-hand with school staff to help deepen their skills and knowledge over time.
Fitting
Your Context
We know that simply adopting an evidence-based program may not adequately fit your community’s needs, resources and challenges. To be truly impactful, implementation needs to be intentional and context specific. Our model includes close partnership to integrate ParentCorps in your unique context.
ParentCorps’ Work in Action
2023-2024 School Year
7,800+
total children reached
430
educators and school staff reached by ParentCorps Professional Development
61
early education settings with ParentCorps nationwide
8
system partners nationwide
“Once we met with the ParentCorps team, we clicked with them automatically... The more they talked about the community that was created within ParentCorps, the fact that families were their child's first teacher, and their non-negotiable unwavering belief that this is for all families -- for me, from the beginning, I was like 'Oh, they speak our language.'”
Jordan Sheffield-Mix, Tulsa Public Schools
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“Definitely feel like this training not only helped me to understand more about how to engage with parents, but it also poured into me. I feel full leaving and inspired to continue to impact others not just with my knowledge or expertise, but with my story.”
Participant, Baltimore City Public Schools
“There are no right or wrong answers... What works for one family may not work for another -- and what works at home on Monday may not work on Thursday. What I love about ParentCorps is we not only give families practical tools to use each week, but we also offer a safe, predictable environments that they can come to... Sometimes all you need is somewhere to go to be understood.”
Mia Roberts, Social Worker