• Staff
    • Commissioners
    • Commission Meetings
    • Health
      • Baby Welcome Wagon
      • Oral Health
      • Connecting HANDs
      • Behavioral Specialists
      • Baby Basics
      • Text4Baby
    • Family Safety
      • Child Abuse Prevention Council
      • Domestic Violence Attorney Voucher Program
    • School Readiness
      • Toddler Playgroups
      • Amador Cooperative Preschool
      • Parent Express Newsletter
      • Bridge Program
      • Parent Education Nights
      • Screenings/Assessments
      • Kids in Common
      • Imagination Library
      • Amador Children in Nature
    • Child Care
      • Quality Improvement
    • Parent Involvement
      • Mothers' Club of Amador
      • Dad & Me
      • Motherlode Mothers of Multiples
    • First 5 Amador Grantees
    • Family Resource/Community Centers
      • Camanche Community Center
      • Upcountry Community Center
    • Overview
    • Current Grantees
    • Past Projects

 Why Parent Involvment?
 
Because as a parent, you are your child's first and most important teacher!

When parents are involved:
  • Children become more confident, are happier and make friends more easily
  • Children learn to read more easily 
  • Children experience smoother transitions (between home and early childhood or school programs)
  • Parents receive helpful information and ideas from teachers, caregivers and other community resources
  • Parents feel better and more confident about helping their child learn, and about their own parenting skills
  • Caregivers are better able to provide quality care and educational experiences
  • Communities reap long-term benefits because children grow up knowing how to communicate and respect one another, and become well-adjusted, more productive members of society


First 5 helps run and/or fund the following family-involvement events and organizations:
  • Kickoff to Kindergarten for families that have children entering Kindergarten
  • Dad & Me
  • Motherlode Mothers of Multiples (MMOMs)
  • Mothers' Club of Amador County