At All Our Kin, parents not only receive rigorous training toward earning their national CDA (Child Development Associate) credential; we support every aspect of their lives and help them work through the many challenges they face, from eviction notices to benefit terminations, as they move towards self-sufficiency. We provide high-quality care to their children, giving them a rich early learning experience and freeing the parents to concentrate on their own studies. The program integrates theory and practice, so that adults apply what they learn to their own families in a real and immediate way, both in the classroom and at home.

The Intensive program serves a relatively small number of families, but its effects on those families, and on the children our students go on to teach after graduation, are profound. Whole families move out of poverty, transforming their lives; most importantly, they are equipped with the education, skills, and support system to sustain that transformation permanently. And graduates go on to provide much-needed child care to the children of working parents in the neighborhood. Like a stone thrown into a pond, the program's effects ripple out to touch entire communities.