Purposes of Keys to Great Parenting posters:

• To visually illustrate Kentucky Cooperative Extension’s program, Keys to Great Parenting: Fun and Learning with Your Baby or Toddler, dedicated to maximizing children’s developmental outcomes by assisting parents to build their skills as long-term primary educators.
• To provide broad visibility for Kentucky Cooperative Extension’s research-based resources in parenting education, child development, as well as other areas of family and consumer sciences.
• To especially reach out to particular audiences of parents and primary caregivers, such as those who may not attend group or home-based parenting education sessions and those with limited English proficiency.
• To enhance the impact of group and home-based parenting education sessions with visual images, concise concepts, and easy adult-child activities.
• To express respect and appreciation for parents of all generations, cultures, and ethnicities through the diversity of families pictured in the posters.

Description of each poster:

• Conveys the outstanding concepts in each of the seven corresponding Keys to Great Parenting publications.
• Measures 11” x 17” and is printed on high quality paper.
• Illustrates the content of the corresponding Key with a beautiful, full-color photograph of a parent and young child having fun and learning together.
• Announces on a broad, color-coordinated band the title of the corresponding Keys to Great Parenting publication, states the central meaning of that Key in one sentence, and displays the Cooperative Extension Service logos of the University of Kentucky and Kentucky State University.

Funding source:

• The Keys to Great Parenting  posters have been created through a generous grant from KIDS NOW, Kentucky’s Early Childhood Initiative, administered by the Early Childhood Development Authority and Kim F. Townley, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Early Childhood Development, Frankfort, Kentucky.

Suggested uses:

• Posted and referred to during Keys to Great Parenting group sessions and home visits.
• Placed prominently in county Cooperative Extension offices, family resource centers, public health departments, physicians’ offices, hospitals, public elementary and secondary schools, Head Start and Early Head Start centers, community halls in places of worship, nutrition centers, social service agencies, public libraries, children’s museums, child care centers, family day care homes, supermarkets and grocery stores, laundromats, police stations, discount stores, detention centers, bowling alleys, workout gyms, among other public places.
• Pre-parenting and parenting education resources for 4-H groups; babysitters’ training; middle- and high-school family and consumer sciences, health, and social studies classes; youth services centers; and numerous other groups and occasions.

Distribution of posters:

• Distributed free of charge while supplies last.
• Distributed only as a set of seven posters.
• Distributed through your county University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension agent for Family and Consumer Sciences. Phone or e-mail your family and consumer sciences agent for more information and to order.
• If you live outside the Commonwealth of Kentucky, please contact Dr. Carole A. Gnatuk, Extension Child Development Specialist, at cgnatuk@uky.edu.

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