Blue Ribbon Affiliates

Parents as Teachers National developed the Quality Endorsement and Improvement Process to help ensure that children and families are receiving the highest quality services possible.

Programs that earn the Quality Endorsement are recognized by the national Parents as Teachers office as exemplary Blue Ribbon Affiliates for achieving fidelity to the Parents as Teachers model and facilitating continuous quality improvements.

In order to maintain their blue ribbon status, affiliates must continue to meet the Essential Requirements. 

Awarded 2023

  • First Taste Program
  • Parents as Teachers First Years
  • Rockford Public School District #205
  • School District #88/Early Childhood Ctr.-Model Parenting
  • Regional Office of Education #26/Early Beginnings Program
  • PAT Early Learning Academy/West Aurora #129
  • New Moms PAT
  • North Greene Unit District #3/Bright Futures PAT
  • ROE#3/Learning Express
  • Parents as Teachers Decatur Public School District #61/Early Beginnings
  • Triad Community Unit District #2/Foundation for Success-P.A.T
  • Unity Point Family Circle/Parents as Teachers
  • Antioch CCSD #34/Early Start
  • Verda Dierzen Early Learning Center/Woodstock CUSD 200
  • Jump Start, Easter Seals Joliet Region
  • Transitions of Western Illinois/Parents as Teachers
  • Glenbard Parents as Teachers
  • Alden-Hebron School District #19/ Alden-Hebron Elementary School
  • Eldorado CUSD #4 Teen Parenting

Awarded 2022

  • Aurora East School District #131/Jumpstart Program
  • Cairo School District #1/Emerson Elementary School PAT
  • Clay County Health Department
  • Community Support Systems
  • East Dubuque School District #119/Family T.I.E.S./PAT
  • Family Focus Inc./Aurora-Prevention Initiative
  • Family Focus Evanston
  • H.O.M.E. Danville School District #118
  • Project CARES/Wabash Community School District 348
  • Right Steps Family Center
  • Shiloh CUSD #1/Partnership in Parenting
  • Southern Region Early Childhood Programs – P.A.T./Murphysboro CUSD #186
  • Wayne County Family Enrichment Program/Kiddie Kollege of Fairfield, Inc.

Awarded 2021

  • Harvard CUSD #50/Prevention Initiative-PAT
  • Childserv/Kids Above All Illinois
  • Community Consolidated School District #168/Blossoms Early Childhood at Wagoner School
  • Right from the Start Program (aka. Family Focus Highland Park)
  • Metropolitan Family Services/Parents as Partners
  • New Mom’s Inc./New Moms PAT
  • Peoria County Bright Futures Program/Peoria Heights CUSD #325

Awarded 2020

  • Princeton Elementary School District #115/Early Childhood-PAT
  • Family Center School District 65 PI
  • Schaumburg School District 54
  • Springfield Public Schools #186 PAT
  • Dupage County Regl. Office of Education PAT
  • Marillac Social Center PAT
  • Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago/Partnering with Parents
  • Naperville Community Unit School District #203/Ann Reid Early Childhood Center
  • Mendota CCSD #289/Small Steps-Parents as Teachers
  • The Children’s Center of Cicero/Berwyn
  • Tuesday’s Child

Awarded 2019

  • The Center – FIND Prevention Initiative
  • Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center – Parenting for Success
  • Regional Office of Education #33 Prevention Initiative
  • Elgin U-46 – Parents As Teachers
  • Illinois Action for Children Prevention Initiative
  • Flora CUSD #35 – Parents As Teachers
  • Carbondale Family Literacy – Parents As Teachers

Awarded 2018

  • Kankakee First Taste Program
  • Todd Early Childhood Center
  • North Greene Bright Futures – Parents As Teachers
  • Triad Foundation for Success – Parents As Teachers
  • Unity Point Family Circle – Parents as Teachers
  • Riley Early Childhood Center – Parents As Teachers
  • Jump Start, Easter Seals Joliet Region
  • Bureau Henry Stark Regional Office of Education
  • Madison County Unit School District #12 – Parents as Teachers
  • Rockford Public School District #205
  • Smart Talk Parental Support Program
  • ECHO Family Enrichment Program
  • Transitions of Western Illinois – Parents as Teachers
  • Jersey CUSD #100 Growing Together
  • Roseland-Altgeld Adolescent Parent Program
  • Family Focus Nuestra Familia
  • Parents as Teachers First Years
  • ROE #3 Learning Express – Parents as Teachers
  • District #41 Baby & Me Prevention Initiative
  • Wabash 0-3 Prevention Initiative
  • Macon Resources, Inc. – Bright Start
  • Abilities Plus – TIPS Program
  • True to Life Foundation

Awarded 2017

  • ARC-Community Support Systems
  • Children’s Foundation – Early Start
  • Childserv
  • Clay County Health Department – Parents as Teachers
  • Crittenton Centers Milestones Program
  • Early Beginnings
  • Antioch CCSD #34 Early Start
  • Emerson Elementary School – Parents as Teachers
  • Family T.I.E.S. – Parents as Teachers
  • FHN Family Counseling Center
  • HOME Danville School District #118
  • Model Parenting – Parents as Teachers
  • Harvard CUSD #50 – Parents as Teachers
  • Shiloh Help in Parenting
  • Southern Region Early Childhood Programs – Parents as Teachers
  • YWCA Young Parents Program

Awarded 2016

  • Alton Community School District
  • Riverbend Head Start & Family Services Head Start/Early Head Start
  • Right Steps Family Center
  • Wayne County Family Enrichment Program
  • Peoria County Bright Futures
  • Collinsville Starting Points
  • Task Force For Prevention
  • Family Center School District #65