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Project HOPES is a community-based program providing prevention services that target families with children between 0-5 years of age.

Easterseals RGV leads Help Me Grow, connecting families to trusted community resources so every child and family has the support they need to thrive.

The Easterseals Family Resource Centers (FRC) are located in Hidalgo and Starr Counties and serve as community-based sites that provides a wide range of support services and resources for parents and caregivers of young children. The focus of the FRCs is to promote the importance of child development and strengthen the well-being of the family through parenting workshops, health screenings, counseling, and making connections to other community resources.

The focus of the HIPPY program is to encourage parents to prepare their children for school. We provide them with books and a curriculum that will help their children once they reach school to know their letters and their numbers and their shapes and be prepared.

The Parents as Teachers (PAT) program supports families from pregnancy through age five by providing trusted guidance during a child’s earliest and most important years.

Through personalized support, families receive developmental parenting education and ongoing screenings to help identify potential concerns early. By focusing on prevention, early detection, and strong parent-child relationships, PAT helps ensure children are healthy, safe, and ready to learn within their families and communities.

I found out about the family resources, I didn't know the the pro many of the programs that they had, but I was invited to certain classes. One was financial classes and uh another was a CPR class. So, program like this really help out families like me that we didn't know that there is counseling. The Hidalgo County Family Resource Center is located in McAllen and serves as a community-based site that provides a wide range of support services and resources for parents and caregivers of young children. The focus of the family resource center is to promote the importance of child development and strengthen the well-being of the family through parenting workshops, health screenings, counseling, and making connections to other community resources.

A friend of mine told me about her parent educator and she pushed me to get enrolled into the Easter Seals program. My oldest was around 2 years old and I was pregnant of the second child. This is how it started. The parents as teachers program promotes early development, learning, and health of children by providing one-on-one support for parents from pregnancy through age 5. Parents receive individualized home visits, parenting resources, and the support of a parent educator.

Early childhood intervention is a statewide program that supports families with children from birth to 3 years. ECI provides a range of therapy services and supports to help families who have children who have developmental delays, a medical diagnosis, or at risk for delay. The ECI team includes the parents and the early intervention therapists. Together they develop goals to strengthen the baby's development and provides parents the strategies to work with their baby throughout the day during their natural routines with their advice.

Help Me Grow Rio Grande Valley provides a centralized access point that connects families to information and services that support their child's early development and educational needs. A family looking for help had to knock on many doors to find the support they needed but now with Help Me Grow, there is a connected network. Often times when families need help, they don't know where to start or even what resources are available. Help Me Grow is the best first call.

Easterseal RGV provides home visiting programs throughout Starr, Hidalgo, Cameron and Willacy Counties, that support families from pregnancy until the time their child enters kindergarten. Families are connected to a program that best fits their needs and are provided tools and resources for enhancing their child's development while creating an optimal learning environment, supporting their child's success in school and their life path.

Working with the Galavis Vanderpool family, it has been very exciting. We met the family when Clyde was only four months old, and he is currently 21 months old now, so We've seen a lot of progress. A lot of the progress did happen virtually, and I can think of a time when we were doing an activity, and we were promoting his walking. He was still crawling, but mom thought that he was already showing a lot of skills and 
to encourage him to walk.

She was very small she was one pound nine ounce when she was born sister was three pounds so Avi had to stay roughly three months um in the NICU. Everybody would tell me like once we walk into the NICU we hear a baby cry we know it's Avi. We know Avi's cry so we got to the point where she had like a reputation in the NICU so we we kind of knew that something was different about her but we weren't too sure so when we got discharged.