Parent Education and Family Support
Links
- Even Start
Even Start is an education program for the Nation's low-income families that is designed to improve the academic achievement of parents and their young children, especially in the area of reading. Even Start provides educational services for the family, parents and children alike, so that adults and their children will be able to take advantage of and benefit from the tremendous opportunities available to them in this Nation. For adults and children with limited English proficiency, Even Start helps them make progress toward acquisition of the English language and attainment of a high level of literacy. Qualifying families must be of low income, have at least one parent with an educational need and at least one child aged birth through age 7.
- Healthy Family Initiatives (HFI)
Now celebrating our twenty-fifth year, Healthy Family Initiatives (HFI), in Houston, Texas, is a 501 c 3 non-profit organization whose focus and purpose is to serve as a living laboratory for prevention -- identifying, piloting and eventually assisting to institutionalize community capacity to deliver evidence-based prevention practices for strengthening at-risk families and the primary prevention of child abuse and neglect - supporting families before this harmful act occurs in the first place.
- Parents as Teachers
Parents as Teachers is an international early childhood parent education and family support organization serving families throughout pregnancy until their child enters kindergarten, usually age 5. The service model is designed to enhance child development and school achievement through parent education accessible to all families. Mission: To provide the information, support and encouragement parents need to help their children develop optimally during the crucial early years of life. Services: Personal Visits, Group Meetings, Screening (health, vision, hearing, developmental), and Resource Referrals.
- Texas Parents as Teachers
Information about the Parents as Teachers early childhood parenting education and support program in Texas. Parents as Teachers is an award-winning, researched-based program providing personal visits, group meetings, screenings and information and referral. There are over 100 programs in Texas in schools, child care and faith-based centers, and community organizations. Training and program support is provided in Texas through Mental Health America of Texas, a nonprofit organization.
- Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
The mission of The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is to protect children, the elderly, and people with disabilities from abuse, neglect, and exploitation by involving clients, families and communities.
