LENA Grow is a data-driven, practice-based professional development program powered by LENA’s “talk pedometer” technology to help early childhood educators improve classroom language environments equitably.

Engages families and helps them learn how to increase conversation with their children during the first few years of life. Families use LENA technology (“talk pedometer”) to measure the child’s language environment, explore data through personalized, actionable feedback reports, and discuss research-based strategies with their peers to increase the quality and quantity of talk at home.

Medical services for uninsured and underinsured children and/or pregnant people via the provision of standard well- and sick- visits with a qualified licensed medical professional.

Mobility Mentoring is a participant-directed coaching model and tools provided by EMPath. Mentors are partnered with participating parents/caregivers to support them in attaining the resources, skills, and long-term behaviors necessary to reach and preserve economic independence.

Motheread/Fatheread (MR/FR) is a family literacy program that emphasizes the importance of reading to children and strategies to support early literacy. Participants learn ways to share stories and themes with children while enhancing their own literacy.

A credentialed music therapy professional uses music as an intervention to achieve individualized child-focused goals in a therapeutic setting.

Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is a community health program designed to provide first-time moms with a supportive, caring relationship with their nurse through regular home visits from pregnancy to their child’s second birthday. NFP strives to improve pregnancy outcomes, child health and development, and the economic self-sufficiency of the family.

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.

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.

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.

The ParentChild+ One-on-One (Core) Model promotes parent-child interactions and positive parenting practices to enhance children’s cognitive and social-emotional development through intensive home visiting that prepares participants for pre-k and kindergarten. The Core model 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.

Home-visiting program that provides families with personal visits, child screenings, group connections, and access to a resource network to support parents as they help their child learn, grow, and develop to their fullest potential. Parents as Teachers (PAT) seeks to increase parent knowledge of child development, improve parent practices, provide early detection of developmental delays and health issues, prevent child abuse and neglect, promote school readiness, and improve maternal and child health.

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

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.

TA on All Our Kin trains organizations nationwide to increase the supply, quality, and sustainability of family child care. The approach is one of partnership and collaboration with family child care educators in their communities, and leverage their deep knowledge of the challenges and opportunities in their local early childhood landscape. 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 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 are trained health professionals who work with teachers and administrators to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate strategies to achieve high quality, safe and healthy child care environments. 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®) observation instrument to support a quality improvement system for teaching and improving classroom interactions. 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® scores. Technical Assistants use the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) observation instrument to support a quality improvement system for teaching and improving classroom interactions. 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® 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 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 NC Child Care Commission Approved Early Childhood, Four-Year-Old Curricula and Formative Assessments to provide implementation support for teachers and programs. 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 Assistance (TA) on Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-R) supports program quality improvement efforts in early childhood (3 through 5 years of age) programs. 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 Early Childhood Self-Assessment Tool for Shelters to guide shelter staff in creating shelter environments that are safe and developmentally appropriate for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.  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 Assistance (TA) on Family Child Care Environment Rating Scale (FCCERS-R) supports program quality improvement efforts in family child care programs. 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.

GoNAPSACC Consultants work with child care providers to improve the health of young children through practices, policies, and environments that instill habits supporting lifelong health and well-being in the following areas: child nutrition, breastfeeding & infant feeding, farm to ECE, oral health, infant & child physical activity, outdoor play & learning and screen time. 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.

Infant Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Consultation is a non-clinical TA-consultation and coaching service designed for Early Childhood Education professionals. An IECMH Consultant collaborates with ECE professionals to support and sustain the healthy social and emotional development of all infants and young children. 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 Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale (ITERs-R) to support program quality improvement efforts in infant-toddler (Birth to 3 years of age) programs. The ITERS-R is a thorough revision of the original ITERS, designed to assess center-based child care programs for infants and toddlers up to 30 months of age. 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.