What parents and families do in the first few years really matters for a child’s future. The new United Way Born Learning Academy helps families learn the hands-on skills they need to help their child succeed in school, work and life. It harnesses all of Born Learning’s researched-based content and delivers knowledge to new parents and caregivers in a classroom setting.

Through a series of six workshops held in local schools, the Born Learning Academy provides families and caregivers with practical, user-friendly ideas to turn everyday activities into learning moments. The Born Learning Academy can do more than strengthen your community’s school readiness efforts—it can also help your school partners engage families before kids start kindergarten.

Founded on an evidence-based curriculum established by early childhood faculty at Northern Kentucky University, the workshops are led by trained professionals —usually teachers, principals or other education staff—and focus on the following topics:

Building Relationships

Building Your Child’s Language Skills

Nutrition and Health

How Children Learn Routines

Learning on the Go

Academy workshops offer individualized attention and support to families, including:

• Research-based resources to take home, which help parents apply their new knowledge
• Opportunities to practice new skills with their children, and with other parents
• Free, age-appropriate and activity based childcare
• A nutritious dinner
• A pre- and post-workshop survey to assess new knowledge

What’s included?

The Born Learning Academy Deluxe includes all of the administrative materials, training aids, marketing materials, and take-home parent tools for twenty families. Each academy can be taught by one school location for a period of 3 years. There is also an optional, third party database available for tracking academy progress. Click here to learn more.

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