Supporting Head Start families with Active Parenting: First Five Years

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Achieve Your Head Start PFCE Goals with Active Parenting: First Five Years The evidence-based curriculum designed exclusively for Head Start & Early Head Start implementation.

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Head Start alignment

How Active Parenting supports the PFCE Framework

The Active Parenting: First Five Years curriculum is designed to help your program build strong, goal-oriented relationships with families and align seamlessly with the Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement (PFCE) Framework. Explore how our evidence-backed, video-based approach supports key family outcomes like well-being, positive parent-child relationships, and families as lifelong educators.

Family well-being

Stress, routines, and resilience

Lessons help parents build routines, problem-solve family challenges, and practice healthy communication, which supports mental health, daily functioning, and stability at home.

Parent-child relationships

Positive, developmentally appropriate tools

Concrete skills like encouragement, logical consequences, and active listening help parents strengthen attachment and reduce power struggles in ways that fit each child’s age and stage.

Families as educators

Parents as children’s first teachers

Activities and take-home practice sheets give families simple ways to support learning, social-emotional skills, and school readiness in everyday moments.

Why First Five Years works for Head Start

Flexible formats for home visits, small parent groups, or family engagement events.
Age-appropriate video vignettes that reflect real-life parenting situations families recognize.
Step-by-step Leader’s Guides to support new and experienced facilitators (includes guided group discussion and interactive activities).
Parent’s Guides with home activities to reinforce learning between sessions.
Content that aligns with PFCE outcomes around well-being, relationships, and learning.
Skill modeling embedded in slide presentations that are easy for leaders to use.

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Active Parenting: First Five Years Program Kit

About Active Parenting

Why Active Parenting is trusted by Head Start programs

Active Parenting has been the trusted source for evidence-backed, video-based parenting education since 1983. Our programs are implemented in schools, community agencies, courts, and Head Start programs across the country.

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Evidence-based

Our programs are backed by independent research and proven effective through studies and real-world implementation in diverse communities.

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Video-based

Brief video vignettes with professional actors model key skills and show real-life situations that families recognize and want to talk about.

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Interactive

Sessions are designed for engagement through group discussion, role-playing, and activities that reinforce learning and build connection.

Your Head Start support team

We’re here to help you plan

Whether you are new to Active Parenting or expanding an existing initiative, our team can help you select materials, schedule training, and align with your Head Start performance standards. Stay connected for free previews, pricing, and implementation support.