Our Qualifications

All teachers, teacher assistants and family educators are credentialed and certified.
These credentials and certifications may include (depending on service): Active Parenting, Family-Centered, Doula, Lactation,
Love’s Cradle Training, Infant Massage, Sign Language, ESL Certification and education licensing through NC State.

• • • Educators, teachers, teacher assistants, and staff are trained, and many possess program credentials,

      bachelor’s degrees, and/or master’s degrees

    • Family educators have a combined 60+ years of experience at Imprints Cares

    • A number of educators are bilingual with Spanish as their native language

Certifications

Child birth education, early childhood education, elementary education, social work, sociology and family centeredness

 Tools and Curricula

• • • Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ-3/ASQ-SE)

    • Development Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (DIAL 4)

    • Family Literacy Programs: CELL and Motheread/Fatheread

    • Foundational Curriculum (Parents as Teachers)

    • Language—English as a second language for families

    • Language Environment Analysis (LENA)

    • Language—Spanish as a first language for families

    • Life Skills Progression (LSP)

    • Keys to Interactive Parenting Scale (KIPS)

    • Parents Matter!

    • Cuidate!

    • Talaris’ Parenting Counts Program

    • The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS, training/observation)

    • Triple P—Positive Parenting Program