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The Washington State ParentChild+ team took their staff on a field trip to IKEA this fall as part of their regularly scheduled professional development for Program Coordinators. Participating staff were given a budget of $15 and a prompt to find items they could incorporate into their home visiting…

Pamela Williams, Washington State Director, wrote this blog piece for Start Early titled Exploring Unconscious Bias and Colorism in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. Pamela spoke at the 2023 ParentChild+ Conference, and at the 18th World Congress for the WAIMH World Association for Infant Mental Health in…

United Way of King County Blog, 9/26/18 United Way believes that when parents become their children’s first and best teachers, kids start school on a path to success. BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? It means more than providing a safe place to live, sleep and play. It means…

KIMA Action News, 9/18/18    WEST VALLEY, Wash. — Katie Horton is a Kindergarten teacher at Ahtanum Valley Elementary School. She says its pretty easy to tell which of her students went to preschool and which didn’t, based on things like math and reading. Experts say only about…

The United Way of King County recently awarded $1.5 million to expand a program that helps low-income parents teach their toddlers using educational books and toys. About 1,000 low-income families in Seattle and King County were enrolled last year in a home-visiting program that helps parents prepare their…

What have two women learned about childhood development from working with the Parent-Child Home Program, which sent them into the living rooms and kitchens of some of King County’s poorest homes? The key to the success of King County’s Parent-Child Home Program, featured Wednesday in The Seattle Times,…

Nearly a decade before Seattle voters agreed in 2014 to subsidize a preschool program for the city’s families, a small, pilot effort for even younger children debuted in 106 living rooms across King County. Organizers approached parents with a simple sales pitch: Did they want help preparing their…

Ella is three months old, a firstborn child. She lives with her family in Seattle zip code 98118 in the Rainier Beach neighborhood in the city’s far southeast corner. Her mom and dad both work two jobs to make ends meet but still fight to rise above the…

It was Graduation Day for 4-year-old kids, complete with caps and gowns. These children were enrolled in King County’s Parent-Child Home Program — a preview of things to come as the county’s “Best Start for Kids” initiative was passed by voters last fall. One mom says her son’s…

“As a young, single parent, Janiesha said it’s difficult to know how to teach her children new things, but the program has helped. Maliyah likes the educational games her home visitor brings and she’s learning the alphabet and her numbers.” Congratulations to Atlantic Street Center and United Way of…

Launching its campaign for expansion in King County, WA, the United Way wrote a supplement published in the Puget Sound Business Journal titled Failure is not an option. To read the full report, please click here.   Click here to see PCHP’s profile on Charity Navigator’s website.

About six and a half years ago, a coalition of business leaders, determined to find a way to insure that Seattle would have a strong, sustainable, skilled workforce in the future, created the Business Partnership for Early Learning (BPEL) and began researching the most effective way to achieve…