About Great Kids, Inc.
Great Kids, Inc. (GKI), an international leader in training and consultation services, is dedicated to developing exceptional early childhood and home based programs for families with children 0-5 years by supporting them in using our evidence based approach and materials. We believe that successfully raising competent, compassionate children with the skills to solve tomorrow's problems depends on early parent-child relationships and the right kind of stimulating environment during a child's first years of life.
The mission of GKI is to promote the best possible outcomes for children and their families in the United States and abroad by supporting the development of exceptional home-based, early childhood and other supportive programs for children and families. 
GKI Goals:
- Provide the highest quality training using trainers with extensive program experience to enable the staff and management of home visiting, parenting, preschool, orphanage and other programs for parents and children to develop exemplary skills in applying state of the art information and theory into daily practice.
- Offer technical assistance consultation to communities with developing and/or existing home visiting programs, preschool or other programs to support safe and nurturing environments for children, in order to promote excellence in program design, implementation, evaluated results and community integration.
- Identify opportunities for developing significant long-term support, financial and otherwise, to promote nurturing and safe environments for children, and to undertake advocacy and other initiatives that capitalize on those opportunities.
- Develop and publish materials that educate the parents and caregivers of infants, toddlers and Preschoolers
We do not offer programs ourselves. Rather we partner with organizations already established in a community by providing the training and technical assistance they need to deliver and sustain their community, state or provincial-wide system. We value cultural competence in all of our work and specifically offer support in contextualizing our materials and training for the unique needs of the communities, states and provinces we serve.
Members of the GKI team have over three decades of experience in results-driven and evidence based service provision and management, effective program or systems planning and implementation, and in best practice focused curriculum development and training. Two GKI Directors were architects of in state home visitation programs as well as of the Healthy Families America Initiative. We have a track record of success in supporting development of effective systems for numerous early childhood and parenting programs.
Great Kids Inc. has been working with parent education and support programs in the U.S. and Canada since the late 1970's and in the Philippines since the 1990's. Based on extensive experience in the field, we offer effective individualized consultation, program planning and implementation materials, a wide range of interactive training seminars, and curricula to support programs in reaching the solid results they are funded to achieve. Our strength is in translating theory, research, and complex concepts into practical strategies and actions for home visitation, child care and preschool programs to use with the families they serve. Our evidence based Growing Great Kids Prenatal – 5 year Parenting and Child Development Curricula are the cornerstones of applied theory.
GKI services and materials are focused on strength based skill development and capacity-building so that programs and systems can independently maintain their integrity over time as exemplified by our certification programs.
We are successful when systems are effective and when people working with families feel confident, demonstrate specific essential competencies for motivating families to grow and change, are committed to their work and achieve measurable results!
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