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Parents as Teachers Of Rural South-Central Texas (General Donations)
The mission of PAT is to promote the optimal early development, learning, and health of children by supporting and engaging their parents and caregivers.
When you support Parents as Teachers, you support local families and help parents as their child's first and most influential teacher.
Being a parent is hard work.
What is Parents as Teachers?
Parents as Teachers (PAT) is a parent education and family support program that serves families from pregnancy through their child's kindergarten entry, typically around age 5.
Parents are supported by PAT-certified parent educators specially trained to translate scientific information on early brain development into specific when, what, how, and why advice for families.
By understanding what to expect during each stage of development, parents can easily capture the teachable moments in everyday life to enhance their child’s language development, intellectual growth, social development, and motor skills.
Program Goals
- Increase parent knowledge of early childhood development and improve parenting practices
- Provide early detection of developmental delays and health issues
- Improve parent, child, and family health and well-being
- Prevent child abuse and neglect
- Increase children's school readiness and success
- Improve family economic well-being
- Strengthen community capacity and connectedness
What Do We Offer?
Personal Home Visits: during which a parent educator shares age-appropriate child development and parenting information with families, and help them learn to observe their child, and address parenting concerns.
Developmental Screenings: to assess a child's overall development as well as health, hearing, and vision.
Group Connections: which are opportunities to share information about parenting issues and child development. Parents learn from and support one another, observe their children alongside other children, and practice parenting skills.
Resource Network: that links families to other community services.
Organized by Parents As Teachers of Rural South-Central Texas
501(c)(3) Public Charity · EIN 88-2156110
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