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 parenting program where certified parent educators visit families families in their homes a minimum of twice monthly to support them in developing the skills and confidence needed as parents. Provides developmental screening and equips families with activities and knowledge to understand and optimize child development. Services can continue through kindergarten.

Friends of Youth's Healthy Start program service provides home visiting for pregnant and/or parenting families with children younger than six. Home visitors provide a safe space and meet families while they are at while providing basic supplies, parenting support and information, group activities, development and health screenings, and referral to community resources. Program serves families across east King County.

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 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.

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.

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.

A program that provides visits from specially trained nurses for women who are having their first baby. Nurses are able to visit at home or another location that works for the client throughout their pregnancy and up until the child turns the age of 2.

Through home visits, case managers increase parent knowledge of early childhood development, improves parenting practices and increase children’s school readiness and success. Provides early detection of developmental delays and health issues. Uses the Parents as Teachers and the Parent Child+ models. Provides a kindergarten readiness program that helps parents close the achievement gap and give students a boost in the classroom setting.

Provides child protective services and child welfare services to ensure the health and safety of Skokomish Indian Tribe children.  Services include outreach, community education, support groups and parenting education.

Offers programs to support and educate pregnant women and mothers of children up to 2 years of age. Programs include: Bebes! HOPE (Healthy Outcomes, Prevention and Education): A center-based case management program offering support, referral and resources Bebes! BSK (Best Start for Kids): A home visiting program twice a month, resources, referral and support for pregnant women and parents with children up to two years of age ParentChild+ Program: A home visiting program with 30 minute visits twice a week, helps prepare children for school, supports parents and offers free books and toys to enhance learning for children 18-30 months; Growing and Learning Together (PAT): A twice a month home visiting program for pregnant women or with infants and toddlers, not attending a child development center. Includes educational workshops and at home visits for individualized help.

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.

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.

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.

Parents as Teachers is a nationwide evidence based home visiting program that supports the optimal development of young children by facilitating personal visits centered around positive parenting practices and early childhood development. Children receive regular health and developmental screenings and families are connected to the resources needed to thrive. Parents as Teachers services are available in both English and Spanish, and both Jefferson and Clallam Counties. This program is supported in part by funding from the Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF) and the Department of Social and Health Services. In 2023, First Step Family Support Center Parents as Teachers program completed the Parents as Teachers Quality Endorsement and Improvement Process and earned the highest designation: Blue Ribbon Affiliate status. Being named a Blue Ribbon Affiliate affirms that First Step Family Support Center Parents as Teachers program is among the highest quality members of the home visitation and parent education field, implementing the evidence-based Parents as Teachers model with fidelity and quality.

Offers an evidence‐based home visitation case management for pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorders. Helps mothers build healthy families and prevent future births of children exposed to alcohol and drugs. Provides clients outreach and engagement, structured goal setting, problem-solving, practical assistance, and consistent coaching. Seeks to help community service providers understand how to work more effectively with this population and works to ensure that clients and families receive needed services. Pregnant and parenting women are enrolled for three years. Clients are not asked to leave the program if they relapse or experience setbacks.

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.

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.

A motivational program for women who are pregnant and/or parenting a child under 1 year of age. This is a comprehensive case management program advocating and helping women obtain such services as family planning, mental health counseling, parenting education, prenatal care, continued education, job skills, chemical dependency treatment, housing, medical, dental and psychiatric.

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

Strives to deliver high quality, trauma informed resources to underserved and communities at risk, improving the health of the public and mitigate health disparities. Including: -Car Seat Safety -Breastfeeding - LIFT (Lactation & Infant Feeding in Thurston) -Children & Youth with Special Healthcare Needs -Family Intervention Nurse -Parent Mental Health -Parent Support Resources -Nurse Family Partnership -Nurse Referral -Mental Health & Suicide Prevention -Support Groups

A child development provider can make 20 home visits per family to help parents build skills that enhance home safety, child health, and developmentally appropriate parent-child-infant interactions.

Supported Parenting is a home-visiting program to support parents with intellectual disabilities to develop parental skills through individualized parent education, coaching, and other support strategies.