Imprints for Families with Young Children

Imprints for Families with Young Children offers intensive parent education and support services to parents with from children birth through five years of age. We support parents as their child’s first and best teachers so that their child is ready to learn when he or she arrives at school. We use Parents as Teachers, a nationally recognized curriculum based on the most current brain research, which provides parents with information on child development and parenting strategies. Services are available in English and Spanish. The following services are included as part of Imprints for Families with Young Children:

Home Visits
Families enrolled in Imprints for Families with Young Children receive monthly home visits from certified parent educators. The Parents as Teachers curriculum is used to share well-researched child development and parent support information. During the home visit, the parent educator talks with parents and shares activities with them and their children to stimulate child growth and development.

Group Meetings
Imprints for Families with Young Children offers group meetings on discipline, kindergarten readiness, and other parent-requested topics. Group meetings provide the opportunity for parents to share common parenting concerns and issues in a setting facilitated by a trained parent educator.

Assessments and Screenings
Imprints for Families with Young Children offers screenings of children’s overall health, hearing, and vision. Parent educators can use the Ages and Stages developmental screening tool as an interactive activity involving parent and child.

Referrals
Parent educators with Imprints for Families with Young Children can help families access early intervention and community resources. The parent educator supports parents through the referral process.

Teacher Consultation
Imprints for Families with Young Children works with licensed child care programs to facilitate parent-teacher communication and provide teacher training on a variety of subjects.

Motheread/Fatheread
Motheread/Fatheread is a curriculum approach for teaching literacy skills to adults and children. We use multicultural children’s literature about such issues as child development, self-reliance, and problem solving, in a format designed to enhance or develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Story Sharing, a companion program, reaches out to children directly. Through Story Sharing, adults (childcare teachers, parents, social service workers) read aloud to children with enthusiasm and inflection. Three areas of emergent literacy - creative thinking, problem solving, and comprehension skills - are reinforced through Story Sharing.

Nurturing Touch Infant Massage
Nurturing Touch, an infant massage curriculum, is used by certified parent educators to teach parents how to soothe and comfort their babies as well as create a bond between parent and child.

Baby Sign Language
The Baby Sign Class teaches parents what baby signs are, how using baby signs facilitates language development, and why encouraging a baby to use signs benefits the entire family. This course is based on Joseph Garcia’s SIGN with your BABY, which is the practical application of a study on the role signing can play in a hearing child’s expressive language. Study results show that signing babies understand more words, have larger vocabularies, score higher on intelligence tests, and engage in more sophisticated play. Signing parents note decreased frustration, increased communication, an enriched parent-infant bond, increased self-confidence for the child, and an increased interest in books.

Contact Us
Imprints
502 North Broad Street
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101-2510
336.722.6296
bwest@imprintsforfamilies.org