Pregnancy is often treated as a time of preparation.
Families prepare for appointments, supplies, schedules, and the baby’s arrival. But it is also a powerful time to begin building something even more foundational: connection.
Before a baby is born, expecting parents are already imagining, wondering, planning, and bonding. They are beginning to understand themselves as parents and preparing for the relationships that will shape their child’s earliest experiences.
For home visitors and family support professionals, the prenatal period creates a meaningful opportunity to help expecting families build confidence, strengthen attachment, and prepare for early caregiving.
That is where Growing Great Kids Next Generation Prenatal Curriculum comes in.
Building Connection During Pregnancy
The prenatal period is a critical window for strengthening caregiver-child connection.
GGK Prenatal helps professionals guide expecting families through meaningful conversations and activities that support bonding before birth. The curriculum gives home visitors practical ways to help caregivers think about their developing baby, prepare for life after birth, and begin building secure attachment relationships.
Through research-based topics, guided conversations, and prenatal activities, families can explore how everyday choices, routines, and relationships can support a healthy start.
A Curriculum Built for Prenatal Support
High-quality prenatal support matters, but professionals need resources that make those conversations clear, engaging, and useful for families.
GGK Prenatal includes:
- Topics that support secure attachment relationships before birth
- Tools to help families prepare for the baby’s arrival
- Conversation guides that engage the whole family
- Prenatal activities involving the developing child
- 26 play-based activities using low-cost, everyday materials
- 26 science-backed discussion topics to support meaningful engagement
The curriculum is designed to meet families where they are, honoring different cultures, experiences, and strengths while helping professionals provide support that feels relevant and responsive.
Training that Helps Staff Feel Ready
Prenatal support does not happen in only one setting or one way.
GGK Prenatal is designed for virtual or in-person use, making it easier for professionals to support families across different service models. It is also available digitally and in hardcopy, giving teams options for how they access and use the materials.
The curriculum is available in Spanish to support accessibility and help programs reach more families with meaningful prenatal guidance.
GGK Prenatal includes a self-study training course designed to help professionals feel prepared to use the curriculum with families.
After purchase, staff can complete the online self-study course through Great Kids Academy. The training takes approximately two hours and helps professionals learn how to use the curriculum, follow the conversation guides, and bring prenatal bonding activities into their work with expecting families.
Once completed, staff are better prepared to facilitate prenatal support in a way that feels practical, intentional, and responsive to each family’s needs.
Supporting the Whole Family
Pregnancy affects more than one person. It can shape relationships, routines, stress, expectations, and the way families prepare for a new baby.
GGK Prenatal uses a whole-family approach to help professionals engage pregnancy partners and family members in meaningful conversations. Topics such as bonding, preparation after birth, parenting styles, temperament, recovery, early arrivals, unique needs, and more give families space to reflect and plan.
The goal is not simply to provide information. It is to help families feel more prepared and connected as they move toward birth and early caregiving.
Research-Based. Trauma-Informed. Family-Centered.
Programs need prenatal tools they can trust.
GGK Prenatal is grounded in decades of research and practice and supports trauma-informed, culturally responsive, family-centered work. It helps professionals guide families through important prenatal topics while supporting attachment, preparation, and confidence.
For programs, that means a trusted curriculum that supports consistent prenatal guidance.
For professionals, it means clear tools and training that make prenatal conversations feel more doable.
For families, it means support that begins before birth and helps create a stronger foundation for the baby’s earliest relationships.
Helping Families Begin with Connection
Strong beginnings do not start the day a baby is born.
They begin in the conversations, hopes, plans, and connections formed during pregnancy. When expecting families are supported during this time, they can enter caregiving with more confidence and awareness.
GGK Prenatal helps professionals make the most of this important window through practical curriculum tools, guided conversations, prenatal bonding activities, and self-study training.
Because strong beginnings start before birth.
Learn more about GGK Prenatal, try a sample of the curriculum, and see how it can support your work with expecting families.
