Nurturing Parenting® Program (NPP) Parents & Their Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers is a prevention-treatment program designed for families referred for parenting education by social services for child abuse, neglect, and/or family dysfunction. NPP is designed to prevent recidivism of abuse and neglect in families receiving social services, stop the intergenerational cycle of child abuse by teaching positive parenting behaviors, and lower the rate of multiple teenage pregnancies through intensive group sessions. This is a tertiary prevention program.

Nurturing Parenting® Program (NPP) Parents & Their Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers is a prevention-treatment program designed for families referred for parenting education by social services for child abuse, neglect, and/or family dysfunction. NPP is designed to prevent recidivism of abuse and neglect in families receiving social services, stop the intergenerational cycle of child abuse by teaching positive parenting behaviors, and lower the rate of multiple teenage pregnancies through intensive home visiting. This is a tertiary prevention program.

Dental services for uninsured and underinsured children and/or pregnant people via the provision of standard dental care practices with a qualified licensed dental professional.

Behavior management program for families with young children experiencing behavioral or emotional difficulties. Assists parents/caregivers in building stable, positive relationships with their children through decreasing problem behaviors, increasing pro-social behaviors, and helping improve the parents' confidence in working through behavioral issues with their children.

ParentChild+ One-on-One (formerly known as ParentChild+ Core) is an intensive home-visiting model that promotes parent-child interactions and positive parenting practices to enhance children’s cognitive and social-emotional development and prepares participants for pre-k and kindergarten. ParentChild+ One-on-One enhances adult-child interaction, increases child social-emotional and early language and literacy skills, builds the skills necessary for school readiness, and helps parents/caregivers maintain a positive learning environment at home.

Parent-to-Parent (P2P) mentoring provides one-on-one connections with trained, experienced parent mentors to families of individuals with disabilities and/or special health care needs to ensure parents/caregivers have access to emotional support from a peer who understands what they are going through. P2P mentoring is provided in partnership with the Family Support Network of North Carolina (FSN NC) as the P2P USA Ally in NC.

Funding for developmentally appropriate preschool activities in part-day childcare, otherwise not eligible for subsidy. Part day child care is defined as 10-30 hours per week and is curriculum-based.

Communications strategy designed to put parenting on the public agenda and raise awareness of the need to support parents by destigmatizing and normalizing parents seeking parenting help, increase the visibility of positive parenting programs, encourage parents to participate in positive parenting programs, and promoting parents' confidence and self-sufficiency. Must be provided in conjunction with other Triple P programs.

Brief one-on-one consultation delivered by a practitioner who provides regular support to parents who have one or two concerns with their child's behavior or development. Must be provided in conjunction with other programs, such as Triple P Level 3- Primary Care, Triple P Level 4- Triple P Online, or Triple P Level 4- Standard.

Introduction to the positive parenting practices and Triple P through a series of seminars for parents who have one or two concerns with their child's behavior or development.

Parent education groups for parents of children with mild to moderate behavioral difficulties, focusing on a specific problem behavior or issue. Discussion groups can be delivered as a series or taken as stand-alone sessions.

Brief one-on-one consultation for parents of a child with mild to moderate behavioral difficulties, focused on a specific problem behavior or issue.

Parent education for parents of children with severe behavioral difficulties offered as group sessions. Includes both group sessions and individual counseling via telephone calls.

A broad-based parenting intervention delivered online. Triple P Online introduces users to Triple P’s 17 core parenting skills – simple strategies to encourage positive behavior and to prevent and manage misbehavior.  Web-based program that guides parents of children with severe behavioral difficulties through Triple P's 17 core parenting skills. Includes opt-in text/email reminders of goals and strategies.

Self-help program for parents/caregivers of children with severe behavioral difficulties. Based on a workbook and optional brief weekly telephone consultations for caregivers who need additional support.

Education-based salary supplements.

The Child Care WAGE$ (WAGE$) Program is an education-based salary supplement program for teachers, directors, and family child care providers. Administered by Child Care Services Association (CCSA).

Mental Health services for uninsured and underinsured children and/or parents via the provision of therapeutic visits with a qualified licensed mental health professional.

Smart Start Public Awareness and Outreach activities increase NC residents’ knowledge and understanding of early childhood systems, services, and resources. This communication prioritizes specific populations and is goal oriented. Smart Start Public Awareness and Outreach has the following goals: 1) Informing audiences of key early childhood issues and opportunities and 2) Creating behavioral changes, leading to recruitment in Smart Start services.

Raising a Reader (RAR)’s Classic Red Book Bag Program helps families develop, practice, and maintain shared reading routines critical to early learning success. Through this program, children receive a Red Book Bag each week filled with high quality, culturally responsive books to take home.

Water Safety and Swim Instruction build basic water safety skills for both parents and children under age 5. Access and participation in these programs have been shown to decrease the number of child drownings, promote children’s comfort in the water, and increase parent and child knowledge of water safety skills and foundational and survival swimming concepts.

Speech therapy services for uninsured and underinsured children via the provision of therapeutic visits with a qualified licensed therapist.

Designed to serve both fathers and co-parents/parenting figures to ensure continuity and whole family involvement. The goals include strengthening the father's involvement in the family, promoting healthy child development, and preventing key factors implicated in child abuse by strengthening the relationship between the parents.

Systems building refers to a process in which collaborative groups understand and take actions to shift interacting system root causes (e.g., mindsets, goals, decision-making, policies, connections, etc.) in ways that bring about improved outcomes and reduced disparities for children and families. The particular system root causes affecting a given set of child and family outcomes differ from place to place and require systems building/change strategies to be customized to fit the local context.

Technical Assistants use the Business Administration Scale (BAS) to support overall quality of business and professional practices in family child care settings and empowers childcare directors and other professionals in their work as entrepreneurs. Technical Assistance is the provision of targeted and customized supports by a professional(s) with subject matter and adult learning knowledge and skills to develop or strengthen processes, knowledge application, or implementation of services by recipients. Consultation is a collaborative, problem-solving process between an external consultant with specific expertise and adult learning knowledge and skills and an individual or group from one program or organization. Consultation facilitates the assessment and resolution of an issue-specific concern—a program-/organizational-, staff-, or child-/family-related issue—or addresses a specific topic. Coaching is a relationship-based process led by an expert with specialized and adult learning knowledge and skills, who often serves in a different professional role than the recipient(s). Coaching is designed to build capacity for specific professional dispositions, skills, and behaviors and is focused on goal-setting and achievement for an individual or group.

Child Care Health Consultants (CCHCs) are trained health professionals with education and experience in early childhood health and safety who work with teachers and administrators to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate strategies to achieve high quality, safe, and healthy early care and education environments in the focus areas described in the National Center on Early Childhood Health and Wellness Child Care Health Consultant Competencies. Technical Assistance is the provision of targeted and customized supports by a professional(s) with subject matter and adult learning knowledge and skills to develop or strengthen processes, knowledge application, or implementation of services by recipients. For CCHCs, consultation involves an encounter with an early educator(s) to address a specific concern or set of concerns with at least one additional encounter to follow-up on consultation given. Coaching consists of engaging early educators in a Quality Improvement Cycle using the NC Health and Safety Assessment and Encounter Tool (HSAET). If a CCHC provides regular consultation to early educators in an ECE program, consultation will ideally transition to a coaching relationship.

Technical Assistants use the Childcare Outdoor Learning Environments Quality Tool (COLEQT) to assess the outdoor learning environments (OLE) quality across four levels of 13 built environment activity settings considered to be strongly supportive of healthy child development. TA-Consultation and Coaching provides targeted and customized support for ECE professionals that help them to develop or strengthen their processes, knowledge, and/or implementation, while building relationships with professionals in the field. Consultation specifically facilitates the assessment and resolution of an issue-specific concern—a program-/organizational-, staff-, or child-/family-related issue. Coaching is designed to build capacity for specific professional dispositions, skills, and behaviors and is focused on goal-setting and achievement for an individual or group.

Technical Assistants use the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) Infant observation instrument to support a quality improvement system for teaching and improving classroom interactions in infant classrooms (children ages 6 weeks to 18 months). The tool assesses the quality of teacher-child interactions in center-based preschool classrooms towards improved teacher-child interactions, improved developmental and academic student outcomes, and improved CLASS® Infant scores. Technical Assistance is the provision of targeted and customized supports by a professional(s) with subject matter and adult learning knowledge and skills to develop or strengthen processes, knowledge application, or implementation of services by recipients. Consultation is a collaborative, problem-solving process between an external consultant with specific expertise and adult learning knowledge and skills and an individual or group from one program or organization. Consultation facilitates the assessment and resolution of an issue-specific concern—a program-/organizational-, staff-, or child-/family-related issue—or addresses a specific topic. Coaching is a relationship-based process led by an expert with specialized and adult learning knowledge and skills, who often serves in a different professional role than the recipient(s). Coaching is designed to build capacity for specific professional dispositions, skills, and behaviors and is focused on goal-setting and achievement for an individual or group.

Technical Assistants use the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) Pre-K observation instrument to support a quality improvement system for teaching and improving classroom interactions in pre-kindergarten classrooms (children ages 3-5 years). The tool assesses the quality of teacher-child interactions in center-based preschool classrooms towards improved teacher-child interactions, improved developmental and academic student outcomes, and improved CLASS® Pre-K scores. Technical Assistance is the provision of targeted and customized supports by a professional(s) with subject matter and adult learning knowledge and skills to develop or strengthen processes, knowledge application, or implementation of services by recipients. Consultation is a collaborative, problem-solving process between an external consultant with specific expertise and adult learning knowledge and skills and an individual or group from one program or organization. Consultation facilitates the assessment and resolution of an issue-specific concern—a program-/organizational-, staff-, or child-/family-related issue—or addresses a specific topic. Coaching is a relationship-based process led by an expert with specialized and adult learning knowledge and skills, who often serves in a different professional role than the recipient(s). Coaching is designed to build capacity for specific professional dispositions, skills, and behaviors and is focused on goal-setting and achievement for an individual or group.

Technical Assistants use the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) Toddler observation instrument to support a quality improvement system for teaching and improving classroom interactions in toddler classrooms (children ages 15-36 months). The tool assesses the quality of teacher-child interactions in center-based preschool classrooms towards improved teacher-child interactions, improved developmental and academic student outcomes, and improved CLASS® Toddler scores. Technical Assistance is the provision of targeted and customized supports by a professional(s) with subject matter and adult learning knowledge and skills to develop or strengthen processes, knowledge application, or implementation of services by recipients. Consultation is a collaborative, problem-solving process between an external consultant with specific expertise and adult learning knowledge and skills and an individual or group from one program or organization. Consultation facilitates the assessment and resolution of an issue-specific concern—a program-/organizational-, staff-, or child-/family-related issue—or addresses a specific topic. Coaching is a relationship-based process led by an expert with specialized and adult learning knowledge and skills, who often serves in a different professional role than the recipient(s). Coaching is designed to build capacity for specific professional dispositions, skills, and behaviors and is focused on goal-setting and achievement for an individual or group.