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Strengths

• High quality, strength-based parenting and child development curriculum for home visiting programs • High quality, impactful training that supports continuous learning and growth for professionals in the field of home visiting. • Strong relationships with our customers • Conversation guides that stand out from other home visiting curriculum • Parent-Child Activities • Attachment Focus • Powerful partnerships in the field of home visiting • Innovative materials • Creating tools for parents, like the Daily Dos, which allow parents to personally experience successes as they learn to be more confident in their parenting • Making complicated things simple • Products by Home Visitors for Home Visitors providing an inside perspective • Excellent customer support • Responsiveness • Research-based curricula and training • Supporting the parent-child attachment relationship • Meeting people where they are • Being innovative and creative • Products are developed by former home visitors and people who have dedicated their lives to building resiliency for parents and their children • Products are strength-based, solution-focused, and provide home visitors with the most up-to-date research in family resiliency and child attachment • Non-profit organization • Custom solutions for clients • Conversation guides within the curriculum support home visitors to support parenting skills • Time tested, well researched and well supported team • Necessary infrastructure • Two-generation approach

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Strengths

• Skill-based (vs. knowledge-based) • Incorporating the parallel process into the products • Enhancements in inclusive language for both seminars & products • Basing our curriculum on precision home visiting and incorporating active ingredients such as Key Ingredients • Providing hybrid training options as well as fully online training options • Our customer support team aren't salespeople but more like support persons who will make sure programs have a curriculum that is fitting to their needs • The company was founded based on meeting a need in the field of home visiting • Passionate staff – it’s not just a job for us • Willingness to work with partners • Openness and willingness to be vulnerable • Open to hearing and incorporating feedback • No reporting requirements • No recertification requirements • No annual licensing fees • Longevity in the field with a solid reputation • Availability in Spanish • Continuously improving our products based on customer feedback and the latest research • Always looking for a new way to connect with customers and offer them more tools and opportunities to expand their professional development • Staff of knowledgeable, dedicated professionals that strive for excellence in all they do • 110% committed to providing the best of everything we do and offer to our customers and ultimately, the children and families they serve • Great Kids gave me a FULL toolbox to use

Strengths

• Family growth and development piece in unison with child development - a familycentered, two-generation approach • Responsiveness to the needs of our partners on the front lines • Products have supports all around with training and additional support if needed • Trainings encourage growth mindsets • Partnering with parents for voice and choice • Trauma-informed practice • Support emergent use and supporting the arising needs of families • Incredibly empathic and willing • We identify with our work and we're proud of it • Inclusiveness and respect for all individuals is at the heart of our materials • Respectful of the value of fostering long term relationships with customers • Ground-breaking information delivered in manageable ways that can be easily comprehended by the end user • Internal resources to support staff while working remotely • Provide staff with the tools needed to stay organized and support the development of top-notch products and delivery of services • Staff skill and competency • Our people • GK Academy that allowed rapid transition to virtual seminars • Flexibility and determination • Self-sustaining, rather than depending on grants or fund-raising • Strong, supportive leadership that takes all things into consideration • Strong processes in place, and the willingness to continue to improve them as needed • The Product Development team is top notch • Seminar coordination team continues to crank out new ways to support customers • People are our best resource - we have an exceptional team with lots of expertise and very low turnover • dedicated teams • smart and creative employees

Strengths

• shared leadership model • A wonderful history which has become an internal resource to draw from • Because of the prudent decisions made previously, we are thriving today • Passionate people to the core • Great processes in place like the task workflow for curriculum development and professional development • Staff - a group of dedicated and passionate professionals • Technology, tools, and resources • Strong virtual office configuration • A culture where innovation, productivity, action-driven, etc. are important values • High employee retention and loyalty • Supportive supervisors • Availability of all the supplies needed to work efficiently • Curriculum helps ensure success of parents and children • Our people, their expertise, their commitment, their passion and their level of professionalism. • Our LMS, the Academy, provides an online platform for learning • Financial stability • Adequate inventory on hand • We have proven that we can succeed and flourish amidst a pandemic, no matter where everyone is working from • Ability to be adaptable, reactive, and flexible has served us well • Growing diversity of products available to sell that are starting to reach beyond the world of home visiting • The flexibility of few physical assets and a virtual workforce • Our Instructional Design Team • Ability to facilitate training content that is engaging and easy to access • Substance use training which we are now offering to a wider audience • Micro-trainings that puts us ahead of the competition • Strong product lines • Different software and IT tools • Innovation and creativity • Variety of materials for different ages • Always looking for the new and best thing for our customers • Dedicated staff

GreatKidsisPassionate About…

“building relationships with partners.”

“innovating, making things happen, moving into action.”

“providing the best possible information to professionals that work with children and families!”

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