Provides a research-based, research-validated early childhood literacy and school readiness program that strengthens families and prepares children for academic success through intensive home visiting. Provides home visits to parents with children age 2 and 3 to model the types of conversations and activities that will help children be ready to succeed in school.  Participating families are assigned a home visitor who will visit with them for 30 minutes twice a week, for at least 23 weeks in a year, on a schedule convenient for the parents.

The ParentChild+ is a West Valley School District-wide home-based literacy and parenting program, serving families since 2001. ParentChild+ works with 2 and 3 year olds and their parents, using a gentle approach, modeling quality reading, conversation, and play emphasizing the parent's role as the child's first teacher. Essential to the program is respect for privacy and the ethnic and cultural heritage of all families. Through the program, parents experience the joy and value of reading, talking, and playing with their children. Each family receives 46 toys and books over a two year period within the context of 96 home visits. The home visitors work to generate excitement about learning and verbal interaction in the home through books, toys and play.  These books and educational toys are given as gifts to the families to continue the learning process. Program provides the following: -  Free books and educational toys -  Promotes parent-child interaction -  Reaches families at home in their own environment -  Family events twice a year -  Screens children to assess development in speech, language, and hearing -  Connects families to additional community resources -  A positive bridge to entering school ready to learn

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

Offers a home visiting program focused on providing parent education, family support and developmental activities. Fosters strong, loving relationships between parents and their children, provides opportunities to connect with other parents and prepares children for kindergarten.

Provides supportive case management, therapeutic parenting education and support, child development assessments and referrals to pregnant and newly parenting women in recovery from substance abuse.

Provides an evidence-based home visitation case-management model for mothers who abuse alcohol or drugs during pregnancy. Its goals are to help mothers build healthy families and prevent future births of children exposed prenatally to alcohol and drugs.

Partners first-time moms with a home visitor to support a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. A registered nurse will visit clients throughout the pregnancy and until the baby is 2 years old. Nurses provide resources to help clients establish goals.

Offers a home visiting program that provides parents with early childhood, school readiness, and family support information and services. Parents learn about a child's social emotional, intellectual, language, and motor development. Parents also learn ways to encourage healthy growth. Materials are available in Spanish

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

Early Head Start services promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of infants and toddlers by providing educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families, including developmental screenings. Services for parents include home visits, parenting classes, parent support and networking. Full day/full year center-based or home-based models are available.

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

Supports families in helping their young children reach certain educational milestones ahead of preschool. Through our partnership with ParentChild+, we pair families and toddlers with Early Learning Specialists who visit twice a week for up to two years. These visits help children learn skills to help them prepare for school and give parents tactics they can use every day to be their own child’s teacher. Early Learning Specialists also bring participants free books and toys that the child can keep.

Supports pregnant and parenting mothers with alcohol and/or drug use disorders that impede their ability to care for their children and live healthy functioning lives. Helps build and maintain healthy, independent family lives. Assures that children are in a safe and stable homes. Prevents future births of alcohol/drug exposed children. Thurston County is the 12th county in WA state to adopt this case management model.

Provides a variety of services to foster children and their families. Family Time Specialist Provides parent-child, sibling, or transportation only services for children, youth and families (DCYF). Serve and support clients in the following manners: ​ - Develops transportation schedules to transport client(s) to and from family time/sibling visits. ​ - Ensures and maintain the safety and well-being of program participants during visits. - Facilitates engagement between parent(s), and sibling(s) with an atmosphere that supports the parent-child, or relationship between siblings. - Supervise/monitor the family time/sibling visit with the professional working with the family. Family Preservation Services Provides family-focused, behavior-oriented, in-home counseling, and support to youth who are at substantial risk of placement or for children returning to the home from out-of-home care. Services provided include: ​ - Crisis Stabilization –services delivered by Professional Staff that are short-term, acute, and use an active and systematic approach to stabilization. - Engagement – activates aligned with the principles and skills associated with Motivational Interviewing. - Parenting Strategies –helping and teaching parents and caregivers to learn and use the skills they specifically need to safely parent their children. ​ - Family Resources - Engaging families to strengthen parent advocacy, identify personal growth opportunities, and identify accessible and supportive natural supports and community resources that directly support child safety in the home. The Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) Provides professional level services to improve family functioning to promote the child’s or adolescent’s health, safety, well-being, and welfare, supporting the family to remain intact and allow children to remain or return home. The benefits of this program include: - Increased appropriate parenting skills. - Increased appropriate parental discipline and behavior management. - Improved parent-child relationship. - Decreased child behavior problems. Promoting First Relationships Provides early support for infants and toddlers​ up to the age of three years old who have been diagnosed with a physical or mental condition that has a high probability of resulting in developmental delays. Families eligible for this program will receive services to strengthen the following capabilities and skills for their children including: - Cognitive delays. - Physical (fine or gross motor) delays. ​ - Communication (receptive or expressive language) delays. ​ - Social or Emotional delays. - Adaptive delays. In-home Family Therapy and Counseling Services Performed by licensed professionals and are delivered consistent with cognitive behavioral treatment modalities. Therapy and counseling services are focused on the needs of the family as they directly relate to child safety. Benefits of these services include: - Support for a family managing difficult child and teenage behaviors, including monitoring and safety concerns. - Family discipline support for caregivers in monitoring pre/teenage youth. - Support for moderate to high family conflict, youth is displaying some high risk behaviors. - Support with adolescent behavior problems including self-destructive behavior and provoking dangerous reactions in caregiver.

Offers center-based and home-visiting options to support early childhood education including Early Head Start and Parents as Teachers. Programs serve children ages prenatal-5 years old.

Assists pregnant and parenting mothers struggling with drug and alcohol abuse in obtaining and maintaining substance use treatment, staying in recovery, and other difficult life circumstances that they may experience as a result of their substance use. Works to assure safe, stable home environments for children and ensuring they are receiving appropriate, timely health care. Connects mothers to community resources in order for them to build and maintain healthy, independent family lives and works to prevent future births of alcohol and drug-affected children.

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

Provides site-based literacy, academic support and family advocacy for three Highline-area apartment complexes operated by King County Housing Authority.   Services include Kaleidoscope Play and Learn groups, after-school programming and summer programming.

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

Program that helps parents promote healthy development in children, and to deal with a wide variety of common social, emotional and behavioral issues and developmental concerns. This course is a prevention program and does NOT satisfy court ordered requirements. Programs available in English and Spanish. Course helps: - Strengthen family relationships - Encourage positive behaviors - Teach a child new skills and behaviors - Gain confidence handling disruptive or challenging behaviors - Taking care of yourself as a parent. Offers a Triple P Group where parents in similar situations can meet. Parents who can support each other and share their stories. Each group is 8 weeks,1-2 hours per week. Triple P Group is free and open to families with children ages 0-17.

Provides a wide rage of services for children with special and developmental healthcare needs and their families. Integrates physical health, behavior, mental health, and educational services to optimize daily life for the child and family. Provides Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnostic clinic, behavioral and developmental evaluations, cleft lip and palate program, infant and toddler early intervention, medical specialty clinics, nurse family partnership, pediatric dental services, therapy services, speech and language therapy, genetics program, and family support.

Provides advocates who can offer support and child rearing guidance. Also offers developmental screenings, play and learn groups, family fun nights, and information and referral to outside resources. May also provide diapers on an emergency basis.

The New Parent Support Team (NPST) is a voluntary program for expectant/new Navy parents.  Home visitation is the core service, with a focus on the health needs of infants and toddlers, prenatal and postnatal care, parent education, family/social support, and resources within the community.  Services focus on supporting the parent as well as parent-child interaction and child development.

Operates more than 30 Head Start/ECEAP/Early Head Start centers in Spokane County. Provides support for families, encourages parent involvement and coordinates child health care and nutrition. Head Start/ECEAP: Offers full- and partial-day preschool programs for children ages 3-pre-kindergarten. Early Head Start: Child development program provided at the center and in-home for families during pregnancy and those with infants and toddlers up to age 3.

Offers a 10-month program that provides information, resources and supports for families with children who may have or suspected of having special healthcare needs or developmental delays. Services include parent training classes, home visits and individualized family support plans.