Home Visiting

Parents struggling to figure out how to pay the bills, buy food, and afford medicine are under incredible pressure. Such high-stress demands can make the challenging task of parenting even more difficult and overwhelming—putting children at greater risk for...

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Smart Start's Approach to Family Support

Smart Start strives to improve outcomes for children by offering family-focused programs that improve parenting, promote parent involvement and impact the environment in which parenting takes place. Home Visiting Home Visiting programs help new parents and parents-to-be by providing education,...

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Early Literacy

Learning to read is a developmental process that begins long before a child enters school. In fact early literacy skills are nurtured from birth. They begin when a mom talks to her baby; when a dad points to an...

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