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Navajo Nation Growing in Beauty Program

Summary
Parents as Teachers (PAT)

The Navajo Nation Growing in Beauty Program adapts the Parents as Teachers (PAT) model, using cultural enhancements such Native language and customs and Native resource connections for family well-being to promote resilience.

The Navajo Nation Growing in Beauty Program's goals include: "(1) Increasing access to home visiting services in the target area by implementing the Parents as Teachers Home Visiting Model to improve child development and school readiness, thus increasing resiliency. (2) Increasing the number of resilient families in the target area by increasing the utilization of early childhood, general health, mental health and other social services. (3) Increasing the integration of progressive cultural enhancements into the home visiting services during group connections and personal visits, cultural enhancements through inclusion of Native language and customs, and Native resource connections for family well-being."

Retrieved from https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ecd/navajo_nation_ieg_2017_…
Contact
Paula Seanez (202) 401-6414 (928) 871-6338 Pseanez@navajo-nsn.gov
Details

The Growing in Beauty program is based on PAT, which has a number of studies:https://web.archive.org/web/20190708164531/https://homvee.acf.hhs.gov/S…
Tribally adapted
  • Child
  • Family
  • Child disability
  • Low self esteem
  • Physical health problems
  • Social isolation
  • Access to health and social services
  • Attachment to parent(s)
  • Knowledge of parenting and child development
  • Positive school environment
  • Relational skills
  • Social and emotional competence
  • Access to services
  • Cultural identity/sense of belonging to cultural group
  • Education
  • Expressing Native identity
  • Increasing coping skills
  • Kinship/elders/community connection/ties
  • Native language
  • Personal capacities
  • Support (family, friends, community)/interdependence
Target

Navajo Nation Government: http://www.navajo-nsn.gov/

Parents as Teachers: https://parentsasteachers.org/

Parents as Teachers, Evidence-Based Model: https://parentsasteachers.org/evidencebased-home-visiting-model