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Great Kids, Inc. Vision
All children will receive the nurturing care essential to their becoming compassionate and contributing members of their communities.
Great Kids, Inc. offers home visiting programs for parents and other early childhood programs strength based training and technical assistance for:
- The evidenced based Growing Great Kids Prenatal – 36 months Parenting and Child Development Curriculum
- Foundational and advanced seminars for partnering with and motivating families to grow
- Screening and referring new parents to appropriate parenting and family support resources (Parent Survey)
- The Growing Great Kids for Preschoolers Teaching/Parenting and Child Development Curriculum
- Program planning and continuous quality program implementation
- Certifying your own In-System Trainers and Quality Improvement team
- Orphanages and Foster Care Programs in developing countries
Types of programs utilizing Great Kids, Inc. training and technical assistance:
Since 1996, over 32,500 staff from home visiting, preschool and residential care programs have been trained to use the Great Kids, Inc. approach and materials.
These staff, have served an estimated two million families from 40 States, 8 Canadian Provinces, 3 Canadian Territories and communities across the Philippine Islands, Ukraine and Japan. The GKI approach and curriculum has been shown to be effective in the following types of programs:
- Healthy Families America
- Early Head Start/Head Start
- Public Health and Visiting Nurses
- Family Resource Centers
- Teen Parenting
- Foster Care
- Orphanages
- State- or Province-wide programs for parents of infants and young children such as: Kentucky HANDS, Manitoba Families First, Saskatchewan , Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, Minnesota Metro Alliance for Healthy Families
- Preschools
Great Kids, Inc. (GKI) is a 501(c)3 not for profit international
training and consulting organization dedicated to developing
exceptional early childhood and home based programs for families with
children 0-5 years. Our focus is on improving outcomes for children by
educating and supporting their parents and caregivers prenatally and
during the first five years of life. GKI consultants and trainers have
two decades of experience in service provision and management, program
and systems planning, curriculum development and training.


