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Offers a parenting program where certified parent educators visit families families in their homes a minimum of twice monthly to support them in developing the skills and confidence needed as parents. Provides developmental screening and equips families with activities and knowledge to understand and optimize child development. Services can continue through kindergarten.

Offers home-visiting programs that maintain the stability of families by providing parent training and education. Services include: - Promoting First Relationships, - Positive Parenting Program, - Incredible Years Parenting Program, and Readiness to Learn. Program operates out of the Eastside and Bethel Family Support Centers.

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.

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

Provides supportive case management, therapeutic parenting education and support, child development assessments and referrals to pregnant and newly parenting women in recovery from substance abuse.

Parents as Teachers Partners with parents to support their child’s growth and development. Twice-monthly visits focus on learning through play, understanding the stages of child development, helping through the inevitable challenges of parenting, and supporting overall family well-being. Kaleidoscope Play & Learn Also offers weekly, bi-lingual playgroups. Parent Cafe's Playgroups include open play time, art projects, structured movement or song time, stories, parent support/coaching, and time to connect with other adults. Welcome Baby Boxes Gives parents essential supplies for their new babies. The baby box includes a sleep sack, washcloths, a Vashon onesie, and a hand-made quilt, along with parenting books and a Thriftway gift card. Clothing, diapers and some baby supplies are also available.

Supports families in helping their young children reach certain educational milestones ahead of preschool. Through our partnership with ParentChild+, we pair families and toddlers with Early Learning Specialists who visit twice a week for up to two years. These visits help children learn skills to help them prepare for school and give parents tactics they can use every day to be their own child’s teacher. Early Learning Specialists also bring participants free books and toys that the child can keep.

Provides advocates who can offer support and child rearing guidance. Also offers developmental screenings, play and learn groups, family fun nights, and information and referral to outside resources. May also provide diapers on an emergency basis.

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

Provides several services to help families. These are paid services, and fees may vary by income. Visitation services include the standard visitation services, web-based visitation, neutral exchanges and therapeutic visitation. Provides parenting education and support to parents including Parent Education-Coaching, Parenting Plans and Visitation Arrangement Development, Parent Coordination, Counseling, Support Groups and the Triple P Positive Parenting Program.

Supports the well-being of families by providing a culturally-tailored early-childhood home visiting program for urban Native American and Alaskan Native children and caregivers in King County.   Provides classes to help teach parents about child development and building a supportive parenting community.

Uses two leading intervention models - Promoting First Relationships (PFR) and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) - that research has shown to be effective in helping parents understand and regulate their child’s behavior, build a strong and stable relationship with their child, and ensure that their child is meeting key developmental milestones. These services offer parents the opportunity to build and support social and emotional skills in themselves and their young child that lay the foundation for a healthy and successful life.

Public Health Nurses can provide information regarding needs related to pregnancy and health concerns. Behavioral Health Specialist/Social Worker can provide home-based psychosocial assessments and referrals, counseling, conflict resolution, anger management, physical/mental abuse, chemical dependency, depression and relationships. Nutritionists are avalable to provide clinic or home-based nutrition assessments, education, and counseling.

Provides a wide rage of services for children with special and developmental healthcare needs and their families. Integrates physical health, behavior, mental health, and educational services to optimize daily life for the child and family. Provides Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnostic clinic, behavioral and developmental evaluations, cleft lip and palate program, infant and toddler early intervention, medical specialty clinics, nurse family partnership, pediatric dental services, therapy services, speech and language therapy, genetics program, and family support.

Provides site-based literacy, academic support and family advocacy for three Highline-area apartment complexes operated by King County Housing Authority.   Services include Kaleidoscope Play and Learn groups, after-school programming and summer programming.

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 a home visiting program focused on providing parent education, family support and developmental activities. Fosters strong, loving relationships between parents and their children, provides opportunities to connect with other parents and prepares children for kindergarten.

Assists pregnant and parenting mothers struggling with drug and alcohol abuse in obtaining and maintaining substance use treatment, staying in recovery, and other difficult life circumstances that they may experience as a result of their substance use. Works to assure safe, stable home environments for children and ensuring they are receiving appropriate, timely health care. Connects mothers to community resources in order for them to build and maintain healthy, independent family lives and works to prevent future births of alcohol and drug-affected children.

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.

Helps pregnant and newly parenting mothers with substance use disorders get healthy and gain independent family lives. Provides home visitation, support and transportation as part of a three-year program. Helps create personalized goals for success in recovery. Women will not be dropped from the program for relapsing.

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.

Offers programs to support and educate pregnant women and mothers of children up to 2 years of age. Programs include: Bebes! HOPE (Healthy Outcomes, Prevention and Education): A center-based case management program offering support, referral and resources Bebes! BSK (Best Start for Kids): A home visiting program twice a month, resources, referral and support for pregnant women and parents with children up to two years of age ParentChild+ Program: A home visiting program with 30 minute visits twice a week, helps prepare children for school, supports parents and offers free books and toys to enhance learning for children 18-30 months; Growing and Learning Together (PAT): A twice a month home visiting program for pregnant women or with infants and toddlers, not attending a child development center. Includes educational workshops and at home visits for individualized help.

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.

Supported Parenting is a home-visiting program to support parents with intellectual disabilities to develop parental skills through individualized parent education, coaching, and other support strategies.

Provides an evidence-based home visitation case-management model for mothers who abuse alcohol or drugs during pregnancy. Its goals are to help mothers build healthy families and prevent future births of children exposed prenatally to alcohol and drugs.