Grade-Level Reading

Check out this video from the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading and visit http://gradelevelreading.net/ to learn more.

7 Readiness Skills Kindergarten Teachers Look For

If your child’s preschool years are coming to an end, your thoughts are probably turning toward kindergarten. But is your child ready to move on to the “big” school? What […]

Family Engagement

Help Me Grow is designed to help connect children and families to needed services. The latest blog post from Dr. Paul Dworkin, founder of Help Me Grow, helps us to […]

Let’s Play!

Let’s Play! ZERO TO THREE is a national nonprofit organization focused specifically on the healthy development of babies and toddlers. They’ve released a new app for Apple and Android products. Check […]

Art in Development

Creative arts help children develop motor skills, language, decision making, visual learning, inventiveness, cultural awareness, and academics. Check out this article from PBS to learn more about the impact of art on […]

Let’s Read, Let’s Move!

Check out this important reminder from the Corporation for National and Community Service: United We Serve: Let’s Read. Let’s Move. calls on all Americans to participate in combating summer reading […]

Happy Independence Day!

From everyone at Help Me Grow Alabama, we wish you a very happy Independence Day! Photo Credit

HMG & Cultural Competence

Help Me Grow is a system designed to connect children and families to the services they need. These services should be appropriate to a child’s development and the family’s culture. […]

2-1-1 Strengthens Alabama’s Families and Communities

2-1-1 Connects Alabama is network of call centers whose mission is to provide easy access to health and human services available throughout Alabama. The first call center was established in […]

Quality Child Care Helps Children Grow

 In my 42 years of working with young children and their parents I am saddened to find that today’s families are in more crises than ever. Many parents have lost […]