Growing
Great Kids™
An Interactive Family Support, Parenting and
Child Development Curriculum
A Parenting and
Child Development Curriculum |
- Emphasis on growing nurturing, empathic parent-child relationships
- Focus on parenting skills development in five key areas:
- Comprehensive
child development activities package
- Series of family enhancement modules aimed at building strong family
foundations
- Culturally competent and father friendly
- Includes 2 year staff development program
- Contextualized for developing countries
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Growing Great Kids Curriculum Certification Training
(4.5
Days)
 
Growing Great Kids™ is a
user friendly and truly comprehensive strength-based approach to growing
nurturing parent-child relationships and supporting healthy childhood
development.
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“The Growing Great Kids Home Visiting curriculum has been
a great strength of connectedness for our Northern Staff who are located
across many miles
(317,000 square kilometers). The language that is used connects
staff to each other, provides a basis upon which to deliver services and
attaches
to your soul. This connectedness has been a pillar of support
for staff that may be alone in their communities and in a different community
from
their supervisor. The connectedness has given communities
HOPE that change can take place in a short period of time, if change is
rooted in a strength-based
and honest approach and if those involved in change are supported.”
Wendy
Lemaigre, Kids First NORTH
What Distinguishes Growing
Great Kids from Other Parenting and Development Curricula? - Specialized strategies for motivating overburdened parents
to nurture their infants and young children
and to support their early learning and development.
- Modules focused on helping
families to identify and
to work toward realizing their values,
cultural heritage and dreams for their
children.
- Strong emphasis on developing
parental
empathy and supporting parents
on responding sensitively to the needs
and development of their
children.
- Focus
on raising children who
are self confident, respectful and capable
as
adults.
- Each module gives step-by-step
interactive
questions
to actively engage parents
with the
materials so they
do not feel they are being
given
advice or being
talked down to.
- Supports staff
in
developing
the skills
needed
to
address difficult
issues with
families.
- More than
a curriculum.
It is
also a
staff
development
program. Supervisors
learn
how to
build
staff
competence
and
confidence
in
6 areas.
- Has been
field
tested
with
staff
who speak
English
as
a second
language.
It
has dramatically
changed not
only
the
content
of
their
visits
and parent
groups,
but
also has
resulted
in
staff
feeling
much more
confident and
proud about
the
work
they
are
doing.
- Has been Medicaid certified in various states.
- Contextualized for developing countries.
What is Growing Great Kids?
Beginning prenatally, Growing Great Kids is a comprehensive curriculum
that supports the development of nurturing and empathetic parent-child relationships
for 0 to 3 year olds. It does so by focusing on child development and health,
provision of care, parenting concerns and dynamics of parent-child and family
relationships.
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Every 3 Months of the Child's Development, There are 6 Modules Addressing:
- Basic Care
- Social and Emotional Development
- Cues and Communication
- Physical and Brain Development
- Play and Stimulation
- Parents' Corner
Each of these modules is designed to support learning by anchoring the
information in activities and interactive discussions.
An exciting most practical addition, specifically designed for home
visitors, parent coaches, and child caregivers, is the Growing Great
Families manual with modules focused on family dynamics and supporting
growth with the family system.
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How Do You Use Growing
Great Kids?
 Growing
Great Kids is written to be inclusive of all family members and all
individuals involved in raising a child. The curriculum can be easily adapted
to meet the cultural needs of your families and communities.
The purpose of this curriculum is to integrate learning into parental
practices and behaviors. This curriculum can be used either during home
visits or with parent groups, depending upon family dynamics or group
size. Each module will take 1 to 3 visits/sessions to complete.
The curriculum includes handouts for parents, unit certificates of completion
for parents and documentation records specific to each module.
Parent handouts are available in Spanish.
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Why Use Growing Great
Kids?
 Beginning prenatally, Growing Great Kids provides a "how to" guide, or roadmap, for supporting parents and developing parenting competencies. It provides a structure for each home visit or group, and takes the "guess work" out of parent contacts and supervision. Growing Great Kids puts difficult concepts into simple language by offering examples of words you could use, and the “how-to’s” in the following areas:
- Building relationships with families that focus on program goals
- Growing parental empathy and nurturing relationships
- Doing activities that support childhood health, growth and development
- Integrating the latest information on supporting early brain development into daily parenting practices
- Gaining an understanding of parental/family values
- Communicating to facilitate open discussion and parental empowerment
- Making age-appropriate toys from common household items
- Enhancing family relationships
- Extending families’ support systems
- Addressing concerns and exploring solutions
- Cultivating critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Promoting parental self-care and health
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How Does Growing
Great Kids Build Staff and Supervisory Skills?
 
Growing Great Kids is more than a Curriculum.
It is also a Staff Development Program.
Growing Great Kids training builds supervisor skills in how to maintain focus in program goals while being strength-based and solution focused with staff and families.
The curriculum provides a framework for supervision specific to age appropriate development and parenting issues. Supervisors learn how to develop staff competencies through practicing the strength-based feedback process.
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Who Has Growing Great
Kids Been Written For?
- Home visiting programs for parents of young children
- Community organizations and businesses offering parenting classes
- Church volunteers interested in supporting parents in getting off
to a great start
- Health organizations dedicated to providing comprehensive services
to families
- Caregivers in home based or center based early childhood settings.
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Growing Great Kids Curriculum Training
Great Kids, Inc. offers Growing Great Kids Seminars for family visitors and their supervisors. Upon completion, supervisors and family visitors will be prepared to implement the Curriculum with families of young children. Supervisors will have specialized tools both to strengthen implementation and to support staff development for the individuals they supervise in using the GGK Curriculum. This engaging, highly interactive 4.5 day certification seminar includes user-friendly training in:
- Establishing a conceptual foundation for using GGK
- Learning to use the curriculum through “hands-on” practice with parents and children
- A practical plan for building the ongoing integration of GGK into daily practices with families
- Developing a framework for preparing and supervising others in its application
- Developing strength-based supervisory skills
Growing Great Kids “how-to” training provides a framework for family visits and supervision specific to age appropriate development and parenting issues. It builds staff and supervisory skills to support a clear focus on program goals while being strength-based and solution-focused with families. Staff and supervisors develop competencies in motivating families towards positive parenting change. Supervisors learn how to develop staff competencies through practicing the strength-based reflective feedback process.
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What is Included in
the Growing Great Kids Curriculum?
 Each participant attending the GGK Training Seminar will receive the following complete GGK Curriculum Manuals Package:
- GGK Prenatal Manual
- GGK Birth-12 Months Manual
- GGK 13-24 Months Manual
- GGK 25-36 Months Manual
- GGK Growing Great Families Manual
- GGK Implementation Manual including continuing professional development assignments
- GGK Curriculum Tote Bag
In addition, each supervisor attending training will receive a detailed supervisor’s kit providing practical guidance over 18 months of professional development for the supervisor’s staff and includes the following:
- 1 set of two (2) GGK Manuals of specialized information for Supervisors.
- 2 DVD’s with multiple original video clips demonstrating use of GGK with families, designed to enhance implementation and continued staff development.
- 1 set of Master Copies of over 400 pages of professionally designed Handouts for Families in English. (Note: Handouts for Families are also available in Spanish for an additional cost.)
- Certificates of Completion for Parents.
- Documentation Records for each module.
- GKI license to copy Handouts for Families
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For Information about Training Dates and Registration Call: 1-800-906-5581
As a way to support your efforts if you need to raise funding
for Growing Great Kids training, we have
drafted some language that you can use to articulate why integrating
a comprehensive parenting curriculum into your program is so important,
and how the GGK Curriculum is best suited to meet your needs. Also see the
research supporting our curriculum.
Research Supporting Growing Great
Kids Curriculum
Sample Proposal Language
* Growing Great Kids is a trademark of Great Kids, Inc. All Rights
Reserved.
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