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Offers to create educational opportunities in which children, youth and families are productive, caring, informed, healthy, lifelong learners helping to sustain economic security through education.

Provides a Family literacy program, and GED/HSED to residents in Decatur County, Iowa.

Offers parent education home visiting services to expectant teens and teen parents. Creating the support which children and youth will learn, grow and develop by providing parent child instruction and parenting skills classes, nutrition education and life skills education.

Categories

Literacy Programs
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Nutrition Education
Parent/Child Instruction
Parenting Skills Classes
Life Skills Education

Home based program focusing on expectant parents and parents of newborn.

- Promotes bonding and attachment and healthy parent child interaction.

- Coaches, encourages and supports parents.

- Links parents to community resources.

- Monitors child growth/development.

- Problem-solves with parents.

Offers visits in the homes of eligible parents during pregnancy and early infancy to help improve their personal health and development during the prenatal period and learn to care for the child following birth. The visits encourage good nutrition; and provide information regarding danger signs in pregnancy, preparation for labor and delivery, breastfeeding and other feeding options, baby supplies, basic infant care, newborn behaviors and child development. They help to ensure that infants and toddlers are nurtured, live in a safe environment in and around the home and receive proper health care.

Also provides structured opportunities for parents to engage in recreational activity or sport in cooperation with their infants or young children, or to participate in teaching their youngsters leisure-time skills.

Categories

Parent/Child Instruction
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs

Strengthens families by supporting interactions between parents and children, contributing to early childhood development and preparing children for success during life's most critical period. Services include home visits, parent-child interaction groups, developmental assessments, toys and books and diapers.

Provides support to mothers and their families in the form of parent-child interaction groups, support groups, crisis care, referrals to other resources, respite hours, and home visits.

Categories

Parent/Child Instruction
Crisis Nurseries/Child Care
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Parent Support Groups

Offers visits in the homes of eligible parents during pregnancy and early infancy to help improve their personal health and development during the prenatal period and learn to care for the child following birth. The visits encourage good nutrition; and provide information regarding danger signs in pregnancy, preparation for labor and delivery, breastfeeding and other feeding options, baby supplies, basic infant care, newborn behaviors and child development. They help to ensure that infants and toddlers are nurtured, live in a safe environment in and around the home and receive proper health care.

Also provides structured opportunities for parents to engage in recreational activity or sport in cooperation with their infants or young children, or to participate in teaching their youngsters leisure-time skills.

Categories

Parent/Child Instruction
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs