Winning Ideas: Behind the Scenes of the 2024 Challenge Grant Winners
Release Date: 04/29/2025
Engaging Fathers Begins at Home
Parents as Teachers
Traditionally designed to engage mothers, home visiting models have recently been expanded to include tools and techniques geared towards fathers. Parents as Teachers has partnered with Show Me Strong Families to explore how to involve fathers in home visits, increase outreach, and establish parent educators as a trusted resource where fathers can turn for support. Parent Educator Randall Hinton joins us to talk about the importance of cultivating and sustaining relationships with both mothers and fathers to promote healthy development for children and to update us...
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Professional Development: Certificates, Credits, and Conferences, Oh My!
Parents as Teachers
"Healthy, safe, and learning" applies to all of us, not just families! By staying on top of ongoing research and innovations in the field of home visiting, Family Support Professionals can benefit from learning and growth themselves. Janet Horras of the Institute for Advancement for Family Support Professionals, and Lakeeshia Sandlin, Program Director of TCR Parents as Teachers Home Visiting Program in Alabama, join us to talk about two key opportunities for professional growth and development (and a lot of fun along the way).
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Winning Ideas: Behind the Scenes of the 2024 Challenge Grant Winners
Parents as Teachers
Having a winning idea and implementing a winning idea are very different undertakings. Today we’re speaking with two 2024 Challenge Grantees, Cori Silvey of Changing Tides, Helping Hands in Washington, and Julie Rains of Valley Center Schools in Kansas, about what they’ve learned after a year of working on their winning proposals for themselves and their community, and what future applicants can learn as they submit their own proposals. Kerry Caverly, Chief Program Officer at Parents as Teachers National Center, is our special guest host.
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How Home Visiting Can Support Families with Autism
Parents as Teachers
Caregivers know that raising a child isn't a one-size-fits-all endeavor. But families of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder may need specific family support in order to help their children realize their full potential and aid in the family’s functioning. Christy Roberts, a long-time parent educator and her son Will, an artist, gamer, athlete, speaker, and aspiring voice actor who is autistic, join us to talk about how to support families when a diagnosis of autism is made.
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Tell Me a Story: Mayelin Escobar
Parents as Teachers
(En Español) Mayelin Escobar, a family educator with Show Me Strong Families in St. Louis, MO, shares her story of how a chance meeting with a friend turned into a successful and rewarding career working with families, and all of the joys and challenges she's met along the way. (Translation in English below. --- Erinn Miller: [00:00:01] Parent educators are the beating heart of our organization. And as people who work with families and children as closely as we do, we know that sharing stories and experiences offers some of the strongest ways to connect, reflect, and enrich our growing...
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Home Visiting - Past, Present, and Future
Parents as Teachers
Home visitors have a unique skill set that blends child development, social work, and early childhood education, with compassion, warmth, and a keen ability to truly connect with families. Jane Lee, Alison Gee, and Allison Kemner join us to talk about who is doing this work on a daily basis, and what, as an organization with 40 years experience in the field, Parents as Teachers has learned about caring for families and where we can go from here.
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Tell Me a Story: Freda Markley
Parents as Teachers
Parent Educators are the beating heart of our organization, and as people who work with families and children as closely as we do, we know that sharing stories and experiences offer some of the strongest ways to connect, reflect, and enrich our growing community. In each of these special bonus episodes, we'll turn our spotlight onto the personal stories of the people who make the Parents as Teachers program happen and hear from home visitors, parent educators, trainers, doulas, and so many more. In our first bonus episode, 40-year Parents as Teacher veteran Freda Markley shares her...
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"Healthy, Safe, and Learning"
Parents as Teachers
In our series premiere episode, Constance Gully, President and CEO of Parents as Teachers, breaks down what home visiting is (and what it isn’t), how home visiting fits into the ecosystem of families, and why it's so important to the health and well-being of both parents and their children."
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Introducing ... The Parents as Teachers Podcast!
Parents as Teachers
Serving parents and children strikes at the heart of what makes us human, and as people who work with families as closely as we do we know that sharing stories and experiences offer some of the strongest ways to connect, reflect, and enrich our growing community. This podcast will highlight stories of home visitors, parent educators, trainers, doulas, and researchers – and take listeners behind the scenes of our evidence-based model, and the people who bring it to life. Series launches January 28, 2025.
info_outlineHaving a winning idea and implementing a winning idea are very different undertakings. Today we’re speaking with two 2024 Challenge Grantees, Cori Silvey of Changing Tides, Helping Hands in Washington, and Julie Rains of Valley Center Schools in Kansas, about what they’ve learned after a year of working on their winning proposals for themselves and their community, and what future applicants can learn as they submit their own proposals.
Kerry Caverly, Chief Program Officer at Parents as Teachers National Center, is our special guest host.