Bright Beginnings
Colorado Bright Beginnings is a state-wide effort to visit every family in the community with a child between the ages of 0-3 to connect families to community resources and support child development. Families receive one visit a year, Programs A, B and C, in the home or any other convenient setting.
Colorado Bright Beginnings empowers parents with the guidance, knowledge and tools to create a bright beginning for their child. By the age of three, most of a child’s physical, intellectual and emotional development is well underway. Everything a parent does has a lasting affect on the child’s success, including the child’s readiness to learn.
Parents have the power to shape their child’s future and Colorado Bright Beginnings has the power to help parents.
In 2009, FIRC provided 180 Bright Beginnings visits to families across Summit, Park and Lake Counties.
To schedule a Bright Beginnings visit please call Noelle at 970-262-3888 ext. 321
What the visit will include:
Program A: Colorado Bright Beginnings Program A is for parents of children prenatal to 12 months of age and focuses on celebrating the birth of new babies and providing families with information, connection to community resources and support to give their children the best possible start in life. Research shows that nurturing and stimulating interactions between infants and their parents provide a foundation for children to lead fuller, more successful lives.
The visit promotes and emphasizes:
•Positive parent-child interactions and relationship building
•Health, safety and access to health insurance
•Identifying and finding quality childcare
•Early brain development and developmental milestones in all domains
•Importance of reading to children from birth
•Games parents can play with their child to stimulate healthy growth and development
Additional Program A materials
Program B:Colorado Bright Beginnings Program B is for parents of children 12 to 24 months of age and focuses on helping parents promote and encourage language development, which has been shown through research to have a significant link to school readiness and learning success later in life. The program was designed to help parents provide an enriched, supportive environment that promotes early literacy and teaches caregivers how they can become an encouraging partner in the language dance with their child.
The visit promotes and emphasizes:
•Importance of talking with, encouraging, and playing with your child
•Importance of reading to children every day
•Information on ways to enhance vocabulary development and positive interactions
•Games parents can play with their child to stimulate healthy growth and development
Additional Program B materials
Program C: Colorado Bright Beginnings Program C is for parents of children 24 to 36 months of age and focuses on providing positive guidance and discipline, continued focus on providing an enriched, supportive environment that promotes early literacy, brain development and development milestones, health, safety and the critical importance of parent-child relationship building.
The visit promotes and emphasizes:
•Health, safety and an understanding of developmental milestones
•Importance of talking with, encouraging, and playing with a child
•Importance of “conversational reading” with a child every day
•Strategies and information on providing consistent, useful and positive guidance and discipline
•Games parents can play with their child to stimulate healthy growth and development
Additional Program C materials