• Jump Start Manual: This manual contains valuable conversation guides for introducing the Key Ingredients and several introductory family modules.
• Key Ingredients Ring: This product includes durable, laminated versions of all Key Ingredient handouts (Prenatal and P-36 versions) and a Feeling Words list.
• 6 Development-Based Manuals
  The Development-Based Manuals are updated, based on the latest research in the field, and contain conversation guides for use with families. Each manual supports parents and home visitors to individualize the curriculum to reflect each family’s needs, interests, and goals.
  • Prenatal
  • Birth to 6 Months
  • 7 to 12 Months
  • 13 to 18 Months
  • 19 to 24 Months
  • 25 to 36 Months
• Fidelity Guide: This manual is a reference guide for Home Visitors that will walk them through all “Best-Practice Recommendations” and give much detail about several topics of importance to their implementation of the Growing Great Kids Next Generation curriculum.
• Growing Great Families Manual: This manual focuses on strengthening families, stress management, life skills, building protective buffers, and promoting parental resilience.
• Electronic Access to Additional Resources:
  • Parent Handouts
  • GGK Next Generation Documentation Checklists
  • Key Ingredients Certificates
  • GGK GPS Tool

Learn how to use the manuals with our flexible home visitor training options. You can choose the path that works best for you:

• Self-Study: Automatic enrollment means you can dive into self-paced modules at your convenience.
• Trainer-Led Hybrid Training: Attend live, interactive sessions led by our expert trainers, plus self-study modules.
• Exclusive Group Training: For an additional fee, create a cohort of your agency peers for a more collaborative learning experience.

The self-study certification is an engaging, productive, and fun learning experience via our online learning platform, the Great Kids Academy. Staff are required to be certified in GGK before using the curriculum with families.

The GGK Next Generation P-36 Tier I Self-Study certification is available immediately after purchase. It consists of approximately 34 hours of learning content that is suggested to be completed over one or two weeks.

It is best practice to avoid scheduling unnecessary meetings and blocking time to complete the training. Participants must complete each portion of the self-study to receive a certificate noting they completed 34 hours of learning content.

Our curricula are flexible enough to be used within most program models.

With Great Kids curricula, certification programs, and professional development resources, practitioners will enhance their ability to engage parents. They will have the tools to motivate parents to be their child’s first and most important teacher — all within their own family values, traditions, and culture. 

GGK® is endorsed by Healthy Families America and is identified by Head Start as a promising evidence-based curriculum with clear alignment to the Early Learning Outcomes Framework and the Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework.

Great Kids certifications and the Growing Great Kids curriculum include practical strategies for strengthening protective factors and reducing stress.  

Great Kids has incorporated decades of theoretical and empirical foundations regarding the kinds of interventions that have been shown to make a difference for children into the Growing Great Kids Prenatal to 5 Years and Growing Great Families curricula.

Reach out to gktrainer@greatkidsinc.net for direct support on training questions.

You are assigned a Success Consultant with extensive experience with the curriculum at the program implementation and certified trainer-level.

We offer monthly post-training support calls facilitated by certified GK trainers free of charge to anyone who wants to further their knowledge on implementing the curriculum.

The curriculum and certification purchase includes additional year-long access to our Tier II professional development online course that walks participants through a deeper dive into moving through knowledge and skills around home visiting best practice.

To best support you in your role as a supervisor, we provide you with access to the Growing Great Kids Next Generation Tier II for Supervisors course. We encourage you to complete the online content alongside your staff or prior to home visitors completing the course.