The Ready to Learn Movement received the Community Parenting Support Saturation Grant from Illinois Actions for Children in November 2020. This grant included Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors (AP/OD), an intervention proven to improve early childhood experiences and development significantly. We are proud to invite you to host/cohost this program with the families of young children that you work with within our community.
Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors is an evidence-based training program developed originally by and for Latino parents but now adapted for English-speaking parents, with children ages 0-5. The ten-session program requires one to two trained facilitators.
Based on best practice education, each of the ten sessions incorporates culturally familiar activities and data to adapt to the community’s needs. The ten sessions promote school readiness, family well-being, and advocacy by addressing best practices in brain development, critical aspects of early childhood development (cognitive, language, physical, and social/emotional), early literacy, bilingualism, early math, positive use of technology, attendance, civic engagement, parent leadership, goal setting, and planning for family success. Using a training of facilitators’ model, Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors has partnered with approximately 500 organizations to train over 2,000 facilitators in the delivery of the Opening Doors program. To date, about 113,000 families have been served in over 300 cities.