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Beginning at the Beginning:
As a parent, you are your child's first and most important teacher. Your home is your child's first school house. Your child will learn more during the early years than any other time in life. How your child grows and learns during these years - beginning at birth - will affect his or her later development and success in school.
Free Services and Materials:
Parents as Teachers is a voluntary parent education and family support program serving families throughout pregnancy until their child enters kindergarten, usually age 5.
As a PAT family, you receive:
Personal Visits - PAT certified parent educators, trained in child development, will share age appropriate development and parenting information, help you learn to observe your child and encourage learning, and address your parenting concerns.
Group Meetings - These programs provide parents an opportunity to gain new insights and to share experiences with their child while obtaining parent information on special issues.
Screenings - PAT offers periodic screening of overall development as well as health, hearing, and vision.
Referral Network - PAT helps families link with services, if needed, that are beyond the scope of the program.
The Home-School Partnership that Works:
Experience has shown that Parents as Teachers empowers confident parents, to nurture happy, academically able children. Independent evaluations have shown that participating children:
Were significantly more advanced in language development.
Had made greater strides in problem solving and other intellectual skills.
Were further along in social development than their peers.
Scored higher on kindergarten readiness tests and achievement tests in early grades.
Parents as Teachers:
It's free and voluntary.
It's for you and your child.
It's available in your local school district.
Give your child the best possible start in life! Join the more than 140,000 Missouri families who are benefiting from PAT.
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