Our vision is that all children will learn, grow and develop to realize their full potential.
March 2015
Few investments have the rate of return of early childhood programs. Investing in children starting with the earliest years, produces significant long-term impacts for individuals and communities. Benefits to the children, families and communities that participate in early education programs can range from reduced child abuse and neglect and lower health care costs to school success and better employment.
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Parents who participated in PAT showed improvements in parent knowledge, parenting behavior and parenting attitudes.
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Parents who participated in PAT engage in more conversation and are more likely to promote reading in the home.
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PAT parents are more likely to take an active role in their child’s schooling by enrolling them in preschool, attending parent-teachers conferences and school events, volunteering in the classroom, attending PTA/PTO meetings, and talking with their child’s teacher and assisting them with homework.
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Parents as Teachers combined with quality preschool education reduces the achievement gap between low-income and more advantaged children at kindergarten entry. Teachers rated
PAT children significantly higher than non-PAT children on multiple developmental indicators of school readiness. More than 75% of the lowincome children who participated in PAT and preschool were rated by their teachers as ready for kindergarten.
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PAT children continue to succeed in the elementary grades. They score higher on standardized measures of reading, math and language and they require half the rate of remedial and special education placements.
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Parents as Teachers provides early detection of developmental delays and health issues. PAT parent educators detect delays and refer children to appropriate resources for early intervention. In the 2011-12 program year, PAT parent educators identified thousands of problems from vision problems to health problems to physical and developmental delays. 19,400 children were reffered for further assessment and 58% then received services.
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The PAT program helps to prevent abuse and neglect. Children who receive PAT services are less likely to be treated for injury and the PAT families have significantly fewer cases of abuse and neglect. Risk factors for child abuse and neglect include lack of parenting skills, unrealistic expectations for a child’s capabilities, lack of knowledge about normal child development, parental stress, and lack of support networks for parents. Parents as Teachers equips families with the information and tools necessary to provide a healthy and safe home through parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and child development, and concrete support in times of need. The U.S. Advisory Board on Child
Abuse and Neglect states, “home visiting and center-based programs with a parenting focus can help prevent child abuse and neglect”.
PAT is completely locally funded. We receive no financial support from state and federal sources.
Please consider supporting PAT by donating on our Web page (mybirthtofive.org) or sending your contribution to P.O. Box 1815, Richmond, IN
47375

1. Opening – the parents share what the child has done since the last visit and then the parents and parent educator reflect on this.
2. The parent-educator introduces a parent-child activity based on the age of the child.
3. The parents and parent-educator discuss developmentcentered parenting, covering routines, discipline, health, nutrition, safety, sleep, etc.
4. They discuss the family well-being.
5. End by reading a story, asking questions, make reading fun.
My son, Kyson, who is now three years old, has been a participant in Birth to Five since he was born. He received his first visit from our Parent Educator when he was only one month old. When he was a few months old, we started noticing he was always tilting his head to the left when he was in an upright position we mentioned this concern to our Parent
Educator and she noticed it over the next few visits as well. She offered several suggestions such as increased tummy time to help strengthen his neck muscles. She really listened to our concerns and encouraged us to trust our instincts as parents and pursue this further. We did and were referred to a physical therapist. The physical therapist explained that my son had a condition called Torticollis which was due to his positioning in the womb It can be corrected by following intensive stretching techniques and is easier to be corrected the earlier it is diagnosed. Thanks to the support of our parent
Educator my son’s torticollis was corrected only a few short months. My husband and I are thankful for all of the suggestions and support our Parent
Educator has and will continue to provide for us and our son.
through May 2015
ALL Playgroups are from 10:00-
11:00 am
Mondays
Rose Hamilton School, 1281 Round
Barn Road, Centerville
1 st Tues of the month Friends Fellowship Courtyard,
2030 Chester Blvd, Richmond
Wednesdays
St Paul’s Church, 121 South 18 th St., Richmond &
Pershing Gym, 519 Queen St, Pershing (East
Germantown)
Thursdays
Boys & Girls Club, 1717 South “L” St, Richmond
Fridays
Birth to Five Office, Bldg #418 on State Hospital grounds,
498 NW 18 th St., Richmond (10:00am – noon)
Any changes will be posted on our website: www.mybirthtofive.org
April:
14 th – 10:00/12:30/6:00 Book Buddies “Dream A Little
Dream” - B25 Office
16 th – 4:00-6:00 p.m. Kindergarten/Preschool Registration
17 th – 10:30 a.m. for Richmond Schools
Book Buddies “Dream A Little
Dream” Hagerstown Library
20 th – 11:45 a.m. Book Buddies “Dream A Little
Dream” Centerville Library
20 th – 6:00 p.m. Book Buddies “Dream A Little
Dream” Cambridge Library
May:
12th – 10:00/12:30/6:00 Book Buddies “Summer Fun” –
B25 Office
18 th – 11:45 a.m. Book Buddies “Summer Fun” -
18 th – 6:00 p.m.
15 th – 10:30 a.m.
Centerville Library
Book Buddies “Summer Fun” -
Cambridge Library
Book Buddies “Summer Fun” -
Hagerstown Library
June:
9 th – 10:00 a.m. & 6:00 p.m. Book Buddies “Frogs and
Amphibians” - Hayes Arboretum
July:
18 th – 9:00/7:00 Book Buddies/Community Partners -
River Rat Stadium
August:
11 th – 10:00/6:00 Book Buddies-“Trees” - Hayes
Arboretum