Bright Beginnings, created by Martha Edwards, PhD, is for parents who are making the transition to parenthood and parents with infants and toddlers. It is a structured curriculum of discussions with parents and parent-child activities designed to help parents promote their children’s mental health, well-being, and school readiness. It consists of four components: Prenatal Group, Parent-Child Group, Home Visiting, and Video Review. We provide training and consultation in NYC and beyond to implement Bright Beginnings.

Personal Best, created by Judy Grossman, DrPH, OTR, is a group and home visiting intervention that promotes the parents’ reflective function, executive function skills, social support and self-efficacy. The aim is to improve parents’ adaptive coping skills in different roles (e.g., parent, partner, friend, worker/student, homemaker). A core feature is the process of building resilience through graded mastery experiences and mutual support.

CKCC is a Competent Kids, Caring Communities (CKCC), originally created by Marcia Stern, PsyD, is a school-wide curriculum for early childhood and elementary schools whose mission is to develop Competent Kids within the context of Caring Communities through building social-emotional competencies and strengthening home-school partnerships. CKCC is highly rated as a “SELect” program by Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL). It provides educators with two essential ingredients for academic success: (1) tools to teach social emotional competencies and (2) strategies to involve parents directly in their children’s learning. Visit: www.competentkids.org to find out more about the CKCC Program.