Baby University

Baby university's primary objective is to educate low income parents on best parenting practices. The baby u class uses the evidence based nurturing parent curriculum to educate low income parents in parenting best practices while connecting them to much needed community resources. The graduate class offers baby u graduates the opportunity to return for further education in financial literacy, parenting skill and building resources to get out of poverty. They increase their parenting skills by 40% in pre and post testing. Baby university connects families to important and necessary social services. 100% of baby u graduates have been connected to some kind of social service with at least 3 one on one home visits.

Baby university increases family literacy via reading workshops and providing books for home library. 90% of participants report never reading to their children prior to attending, and after attending 89% are reading to their children more than 6 times per week.