Families as Primary Partners in their Child's Development ...

Families as Primary Partners

in their Child's Development

&School

Readiness

Author Kathy Seitzinger Hepburn, M.S. Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development Prepared for: The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Families as Primary Partners

in their Child's Development

&School

Readiness

Author Kathy Seitzinger Hepburn, M.S.

Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development

Prepared for: The Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. It was established in 1948 by Jim Casey, one of the founders of United Parcel Service, and his siblings, who named the Foundation in honor of their mother. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families. In pursuit of this goal, the Foundation makes grants that help states, cities, and neighborhoods fashion more innovative, cost-effective responses to these needs. For more information, visit the Foundation's website at

The Annie E. Casey Foundation 701 St. Paul Street Baltimore, MD 21202 Phone: 410-547-6600 Fax: 410-547-6624

December 2004

Acknowledgments

This publication was developed by Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development (GUCCHD), under the direction of Phyllis R. Magrab with funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland. The author wishes to acknowledge and thank Ruth Mayden and Emily Vargas-Baron from the Annie E. Casey Foundation for including GUCCHD in the Foundation's work on early childhood and school readiness. Special thanks from the author go to Roxane Kaufmann for her support, guidance, and library collection of books, articles, and materials. Thanks are also extended to the national offices of Nurse-Family Partnership, Parents as Teachers, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Partnership in Parenting Education, Incredible Years, and the Regional Intervention Program for recommending programs of excellence and promising practices. Finally, the author would like to recognize and thank those representatives from the various communities and organizations highlighted in both sections of this document as demonstrating promising practices in parent education and parent leadership. By sharing real-life experiences and lessons learned engaging families as primary partners in their child's development and school readiness across service systems within communities, they offer invaluable lessons to others and life to this text.

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