About GKI
Brief Introduction: Seminars and Curricula
Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting
Successfully navigating the often unpredictable waters of home visiting requires having the right tools and knowing how to use them. The knowledge and skills acquired in this seminar are essential to achieving strong outcomes in all home visiting models.
Parent Survey for Community Outreach
Do you have a systematic approach for determining which of the families in your community will benefit most from home visiting and the other resources available for parents and young children? The Parent Survey is an easy to use, validated tool for helping you assess the family's strengths and their stressors related to child abuse and neglect.
Growing Great Kids Prenatal – 36 months Curriculum for Home Visiting (Spanish and English)
Growing Great Kids stands alone among all early childhood curriculum with its interactive emphasis on the Parent-Child Relationship, Infant Mental Health and Strengthening Family Foundations. This skill-driven training program, certifying home visitors and supervisors, has no recertification, on-going or annual fees.
Growing Great Kids for Preschoolers for Home Visiting (Spanish and English)
Designed to meet the challenges of parenting Preschoolers, this Growing Great Kids series focuses on cultivating empathic parenting while supporting parents to be their child's very own Development Specialist. A one-time investment results in cost savings for programs.
Growing Great Families Curriculum: Motivating Growth in Parents, Strengthening Family Functioning
Growing Great Families is a component of the Growing Great Kids Prenatal – 36 Months and Preschoolers curriculum sets. Growing Great Kids is the only home visiting curriculum and training program that includes guides for supporting parents to strengthen the foundations of their family, learning stress management and problem solving skills, while focusing on nurturing their children with empathic parenting practices.
- Training
- Competency Building Approach
- Seminar Descriptions
- Home Visiting Foundations
- Advanced Professional Development
- System Wide TA-Quality Improvement
- Train-the-Trainer
- Program Start Up & Consultation
- Center Based Curricula and Professional Development
- Prenatal to 36 Months Home Visiting Curriculum
- 3-5 Years Home Visiting Curriculum
- Curricula with No Recurring Fees
- What Staff and Parents Are Saying
Our Trainings are for:
- Family Home Visiting
- Early Head Start
- Head Start
- Healthy Families America
- Home Based Programs
- Home and Center Based Caregivers
- Tribal Parenting, Center Based and Home Visiting Programs
- Child Protective Services
- Foster Care
- Early Childhood Development Programs in Developing Countries
- Public Health Programs
Growing Great Kids in Center-Based & Family Care: Birth – 3 Years and Preschool
This curriculum and training series offers comprehensive professional development for Center-Based teachers and in-home child caregiver. Using a skill driven training model, teachers/caregivers put six essential teaching/caregiving skill sets into practice in conjunction with transferring their academic training into developmentally sensitive, nurturing interactions with children and their parents.
Spanish Curricula and Training
Great Kids, Inc. offers bilingual trainers and Spanish Home Visiting Curricula for prenatal – age 5 years.
Train-The-Trainer
Great Kids, Inc. will assist you in building your in-system sustainable training capacity. Our Mentoring Approach to training trainers has resulted in exceptional competence and longevity.
Technical and Quality Improvement Specialist Certification (for Home Visiting Systems)
Program fidelity, outstanding sustained program outcomes, high morale, and support from funders have resulted when systems have invested in GKI's Certification Course for Technical Assistance and Quality Improvement Specialists. Given the current evidence based climate, programs cannot afford to be without a Technical Assistance and Quality Improvement Team.
Advanced Professional Development for Home Visiting Practitioners
As home visiting programs evolve, so do their needs for ongoing professional development. With more than 25 years of experience training home visitors and supervisors, GKI has crafted 8 Advanced Practice Seminars aimed at competency enhancement.
RE-MAP: A Model for Supervising Home Visitors
Great Kids, Inc. has developed and offers training in a supervisory model, RE-MAP Supervision, that incorporates reflective, clinical and administrative elements. It aims to build home visitor skills while creating a strength-based, results-driven work environment.
