Head Starts
Highly accessible, evidence-based family engagement aligned to the Head Start Early Learnings Outcomes and PFCE Frameworks — with easy implementation through ChildPlus.
Meets all requirements of the Head Start Compendium of Parent Interventions, with Trauma-Informed support for your agency’s Quality Improvement efforts.
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Empower your families
Ready4K evidence-based family engagement curricula make it easy to give families what they need to support your Head Start learning goals. Each week, parents and caregivers receive text messages with fun facts and easy tips on how to promote their children’s development by building on existing family routines – like pointing out letters on the shampoo bottle during bath time and naming their sounds.
Want an extra level of support? Ready4K Trauma-Informed is designed to support families who have experienced multiple ACEs and is a great way to connect families with concrete resources.
Do you use the Ages & Stages Questionnaires®, Third Edition (ASQ®-3)? Ready4K Personalized Learning curates a custom curriculum based on your students’ screener results, provides referrals when appropriate, and sends reminders to take the next screener.
Parent, Family & Community Engagement Made Easy
With every Ready4K curriculum, we make it easy for you to deliver a great family engagement program to your families.
- Ready4K is available in 10+ languages
- Three unique programs give you flexibility to focus on what matters to you
- Enroll all families with one click with ChildPlus
- Send your own messages to connect families to local resources
- Analyze data on demand
- Loop teachers into the conversation with newsletters for each Ready4K unit
- See the impact on your families with family engagement surveys and an End-of-Year Impact Report
What Parents Receiving Ready4K Messages Say
Request an Equity Grant Application
Ready4K is deeply committed to serving economically disadvantaged families. We’re proud to offer qualifying organizations an Equity Grant — to ensure that our highly-accessible, evidence-based family engagement solutions are available in every community.
Head Starts automatically qualify for the highest grant funding level.
How Ready4K Works
Enroll families with one click
The Ready4K report in ChildPlus enables programs to easily enroll all of their families in one click — in multiples languages for multiple ages.
Your families will begin receiving texts
Each week, parents receive texts with fun facts and tips on how to support their children’s development by building on daily routines.
Increase your impact
Support families all year long. You can also send custom messages, track click data, and survey families to learn what matters most to them.
Watch your families grow
Quarterly family engagement surveys and end of year impact reports show how your families are growing with Ready4K.
Ready4K Products
Choose the Ready4K curriculum that best meets your program’s goals.
Ready4K Core
Head Start-aligned whole child parenting curriculum to spark everyday learning moments
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Trauma-Informed
Aligned to the protective factors framework to give families an additional layer of support
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Personalized Learning
Personalized curriculum based on a child’s Ages & Stages Questionnaires®, Third Edition (ASQ®-3) screener results
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Wondering which solution is the best fit for your families?
What Partners Say about Ready4K
“We need to invest in things that parents don’t have to show up for, things that show up for parents in their homes.”
"We've all miscalculated how desperately families really wanted something like this."
"Parents really appreciate that it is simple, doesn't require anything additional, and stays on their phone."
“It’s not something that you have to manage. I don’t have to worry about putting together the data. And I don’t have to formulate a report - I love that part.”
"It's old school, new school. It's innovative, but then the text messaging... it's a quick read. And just like that this can reach so many families."
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Ready4K Funding
Looking for ways to fund your Ready4K program? We can help.
Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF)
Ready4K leverages the power of text messaging to send evidence-based messages addressing each of the Central Domains in the ELOF: Social & Emotional Development; Language & Literacy; Cognition; and, Perceptual, Motor, & Physical Development.
Head Start Trauma Informed
Informed by SAMHSA’s 4Rs, built on a robust evidence base, and closely aligned to Head Start requirements, Ready4K Trauma-Informed can be supported through funds set aside for family engagement, Head Start Quality Improvement Funds, and COVID-19 funding, among others.
PFCE Framework
Ready4K has the strongest evidence base in the field, meeting all requirements of the Head Start Compendium of Parent Interventions. Ready4K also supports the Head Start Parent, Family and Community Engagement Framework through positive, goal-oriented relationships.