What is Working for Kids: Building Skills™?

Working for Kids: Building Skills™ is an educational program that seeks to build strong communities by focusing on the development of a community’s most precious asset --- its children. Working for Kids: Building Skills™ is a train-the-trainer program that teaches social service providers, teachers and trainers how to deliver educational information to parents so they can better support their children’s brain development. The educational program uses fun interactive learning materials and games to teach so that the information about how the brain develops over the first 25 years of life and how all adults in a community can help facilitate sturdy brain development in children is easy to learn, engaging and can be immediately put to use within a community by parents, child care providers, teachers and all who work with children. Educational Training Programs and Training Resources are available through Working for Kids: Building Skills™. Many of the resources available to teach parents are free (see The First Pathways Game on the Training Resources page of this website).

The Working for Kids: Building Skills™ program has been tested over the past seven years in a number of communities and has been shown to positively impact children’s brain development (read articles published about this evidence-based program that are cited on the Training Resources page of this website).