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