Why Parent Involvment?
 
 
Benefits:
  • 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
  • Communites 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: