Guide the moment. Nurture the connection.
GGK Prenatal to 36 Months Home Visiting Curriculum
Everything you need for the early years
Engaging the family and keeping parents active in visits can be challenging.
With Growing Great Kids Prenatal to 36 Months curriculum you will:
- Individualize for each family with less planning time
- Facilitate secure parent-child attachment
- Support families as they work to achieve their goals
Boosts Protective Buffers
Based on Science
Virtual & In-Person Use
Available digitally & in hardcopy
Tools That Strengthen Every Visit—and Every Family
GGK Prenatal to 36 Months is an evidence-based curriculum for home visitors who support families. It gives home visitors a constant, reliable guide in their hands, offering clear structure, trauma-informed practice, and development-based content that supports generational change.
This parenting curriculum is built for real-world home visitor training and equips staff with everything they need to personalize visits, strengthen parent-child relationships, and help families build resilience, healthy routines, and measurable progress.
Developmental manuals tailored to each family
Fidelity cues and checklists to stay on course
Parent handouts for between-visit engagement
Ready-to-use materials that shorten ramp-up
Activities and conversation starters that fit many program models
“We came across Great Kids and it didn’t take us very long to read and understand that the curriculum aligns with everything we need here for our early home-based programs.”
– Jennifer Estrada of Stanislaus County Office of Education
“Growing Great Kids is the reason I do what I do today!”
– Krystal Layne of KY HANDS
Choose the Flexible Training Path That Works Best for You!
Order Curriculum Set
Purchase the curriculum and certification and receive your manuals
Attend Training
Learn how to use the manuals by choosing the best training option for you:
- Self-Study: Automatic enrollment means you can immediately dive into interactive self-paced modules at your convenience
- Trainer-Led Hybrid: Optional enrollment available for an additional fee, providing access to live, interactive sessions with our expert trainers, along with self-study modules
- In-Person Training: Immersive, team-based learning led by certified trainers, with live demos, real-time feedback, and hands-on practice. With six or more participants, we can bring a trainer to you for an additional per-person fee. Contact us for a consultation to tailor a training to your program’s needs.
Home Visit With Ease
Begin using the curriculum with families and experience more family engagement
What's included with GGK Next Generation Prenatal-36 Months Curriculum Series:
The Curriculum Materials:
- Jump Start Manual: This manual contains valuable conversation guides for introducing the Key Ingredients and several introductory family modules.
- Key Ingredients Ring: This product includes durable, laminated versions of all Key Ingredient handouts (Prenatal and P-36 versions) and a Feeling Words list.
- 6 Development-Based Manuals
The Development-Based Manuals are updated, based on the latest research in the field, and contain conversation guides for use with families. Each manual supports parents and home visitors to individualize the curriculum to reflect each family’s needs, interests, and goals.- Prenatal
- Birth to 6 Months
- 7 to 12 Months
- 13 to 18 Months
- 19 to 24 Months
- 25 to 36 Months
- Fidelity Guide: This manual is a reference guide for Home Visitors that will walk them through all “Best-Practice Recommendations” and give much detail about several topics of importance to their implementation of the Growing Great Kids Next Generation curriculum.
- Growing Great Families Manual: This manual focuses on strengthening families, stress management, life skills, building protective buffers, and promoting parental resilience.
- Electronic Access to Additional Resources:
- Parent Handouts
- GGK Next Generation Documentation Checklists
- Key Ingredients Certificates
- GGK GPS Tool
Tier I Certification
Learn how to use the manuals with our flexible home visitor training options. You can choose the path that works best for you:
- Self-Study: Automatic enrollment means you can dive into self-paced modules at your convenience.
- Trainer-Led Hybrid Training: Attend live, interactive sessions led by our expert trainers, plus self-study modules.
- Exclusive Group Training: For an additional fee, create a cohort of your agency peers for a more collaborative learning experience.
The self-study certification is an engaging, productive, and fun learning experience via our online learning platform, the Great Kids Academy. Staff are required to be certified in GGK before using the curriculum with families.
The GGK Next Generation P-36 Tier I Self-Study certification is available immediately after purchase. It consists of approximately 34 hours of learning content that is suggested to be completed over one or two weeks.
It is best practice to avoid scheduling unnecessary meetings and blocking time to complete the training. Participants must complete each portion of the self-study to receive a certificate noting they completed 34 hours of learning content.
Model Alignment:
Our curricula are flexible enough to be used within most program models.
With Great Kids curricula, certification programs, and professional development resources, practitioners will enhance their ability to engage parents. They will have the tools to motivate parents to be their child’s first and most important teacher — all within their own family values, traditions, and culture.
GGK® is endorsed by Healthy Families America and is identified by Head Start as a promising evidence-based curriculum with clear alignment to the Early Learning Outcomes Framework and the Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework.
Protective Factors:
Great Kids certifications and the Growing Great Kids curriculum include practical strategies for strengthening protective factors and reducing stress.
An Evidence-Based Curriculum:
Great Kids has incorporated decades of theoretical and empirical foundations regarding the kinds of interventions that have been shown to make a difference for children into the Growing Great Kids Prenatal to 5 Years and Growing Great Families curricula.
Strengthen your program with our professional development offerings:
On-Demand Support:
Reach out to gktrainer@greatkidsinc.net for direct support on training questions.
Partner Success Service:
As a Great Kids partner, your team is paired with a dedicated Success Specialist with extensive experience across all our products and trainings. They’re here to walk alongside you—providing personalized guidance and support for you and your team whenever you need it.
Free post-training calls:
We offer monthly post-training support calls facilitated by certified GK trainers free of charge to anyone who wants to further their knowledge on implementing the curriculum.
Tier II Post-Training Support:
The curriculum and certification purchase includes additional year-long access to our Tier II professional development online course that walks participants through a deeper dive into moving through knowledge and skills around home visiting best practice.
Tools for Supervisors:
To best support you in your role as a supervisor, we provide you with access to the Growing Great Kids Next Generation Tier II for Supervisors course. We encourage you to complete the online content alongside your staff or prior to home visitors completing the course.