Funded Programs

Nurse Family Partnership

This early childhood intensive home visiting program is an evidence-based model and relies on community collaboration for implementation.  Home visits with an R.N. are offered during pregnancy until the child is two years of age and individualized to each family's needs and desires.  Each family receives the necessary support to optimize the social, emotional, and cognitive development of their newborn and is supported to build protective factors which help ensure future academic success and achievement and minimize the risk for child abuse and neglect.  White Center will implement NFP serving 45-47 first time mothers.

• White Center targets Medicaid covered, English or Spanish speaking, first birth mothers, less than twenty three years of age, no more than twenty six weeks gestation and residing in White Center. 

Nurse Family Partnership

This early childhood intensive home visiting program is an evidence-based model and relies on community collaboration for implementation.  Home visits with an R.N. are offered during pregnancy until the child is two years of age and individualized to each family's needs and desires.  Each family receives the necessary support to optimize the social, emotional, and cognitive development of their newborn and is supported to build protective factors which help ensure future academic success and achievement and minimize the risk for child abuse and neglect.  East Yakima, will implement NFP serving 45-47 first time mothers.  

• Yakima targets low income, first time pregnant mothers, less than 28 weeks gestation in Yakima. 

Parents as Teachers

This early childhood home visiting program serves families from pregnancy through age three. PAT staff use the `Born to Learn’ curriculum with 60 parents, not experiencing their first pregnancy, and other family members to increase knowledge of child development, improve parenting practices, and increase school readiness in the children.  The program also provides early detection of developmental delays and other health issues.  By facilitating parents’ ability to be the first and primary teachers of their children, support and nurture their children, and provide them with a developmentally-enriching environment, this program decreases the risk of child abuse and neglect.

This program provides a parent support and mentoring through a combination of parenting classes, home visiting, and elder mentors utilizing the Positive Indian Parenting curriculum. Services are targeted to low income, tribal, single parents.

This program offers home visiting, parent education and training services to low income homeless families with children birth to three years of age. In addition to parent-child psychotherapy, the Promoting First Relationships (PFR) curriculum is used in both the dyadic therapy and in the group practice.  This curriculum offers training for the therapist in helping parents foster and nurture the development of their children

This is a crisis nursery/respite and family support and training program serving low income families who have children birth to three years of age with developmental disabilities and/or delays.  The program offers varying levels of respite care, home visits, resource and referral and parent education and mentoring.    

This is an expansion of the Parent Child interactive Training including strategies designed to target high risk low income and Latino families who have children with special needs. The program offers parent education and training as well as parent support and mentoring.

The early childhood intensive home visiting program, Nurse Family Partnership, is an evidence-based model and relies on community collaboration for implementation.

The early childhood intensive home visiting program, Nurse Family Partnership, is an evidence-based model and relies on community collaboration for implementation.

The early childhood intensive home visiting program is an evidence-based model and relies on community collaboration for implementation.

This home visiting program will serve 100 low-income, young first time mothers beginning mid-pregnancy and continuing through baby's second birthday. Nurse home visitors, sometimes with a social worker, will make 50 visits between 60 and 90 minutes during they two and a half years a typical family is enrolled. The curriculum covered includes personal health, environmental health, quality care giving, maternal life development and family support.