Bright Beginnings' Vision

Our vision is every child in Colorado will be healthy, valued, and ready to learn.

 

Bright Beginnings' Mission

Our mission is to provide a bright beginning for all Colorado children by helping families support their children's physical, emotional, and intellectual development during the critical first three years of life.

 

Bright Beginnings' Founding

In 1995, former Chairman of Procter & Gamble Brad Butler and former Colorado Governor Roy Romer started our organization in an effort to make "Colorado the best place to raise a child."  Since then, Colorado Bright Beginnings has provided free of charge support and early education information to over 100,000 families.

Colorado Bright Beginnings Program A is for parents of children prenatal to 12 months of age and focuses on celebrating the birth of new babies and providing families with information, connection to community resources and support to give their children the best possible start in life. Research shows that nurturing and stimulating interactions between infants and their parents provide a foundation for children to lead fuller, more successful lives.

The visit promotes and emphasizes:

• Positive parent-child interactions and relationship building
  Health, safety and access to health insurance

• Identifying and finding quality childcare

• Early brain development and developmental milestones in all domains

• Importance of reading to children from birth

• Games parents can play with their child to stimulate healthy growth and development

Parents will receive these materials:

• Giving Your Child a Bright Beginning handbook

• LearningGames© Birth to 12 Months book

• Working Your Way Through the Child Care Maze booklet

• A local community resources guide

• Mozart Effect: Music for Newborns audio CD 

• A children’s board book

• CHP+ Child Health Insurance information

Colorado Bright Beginnings Program B is for parents of children 12 to 24 months of age and focuses on helping parents promote and encourage language development, which has been shown through research to have a significant link to school readiness and learning success later in life.  The program was designed to help parents provide an enriched, supportive environment that promotes early literacy and teaches caregivers how they can become an encouraging partner in the language dance with their child.

The visit promotes and emphasizes:

• Importance of talking with, encouraging, and playing with your child

• Importance of reading to children every day

• Information on ways to enhance vocabulary development and positive interactions

• Games parents can play with their child to stimulate healthy growth and development

Parents will receive:

• LearningGames© 12 to 24 Months book

• Language Power handbook

• My First Picture Book

• Working Your Way Through the Child Care Maze booklet

• A local community resources guide

• A children’s board book

• CHP+ Child Health Insurance information

Colorado Bright Beginnings Program C is for parents of children 24 to 36 months of age and focuses on providing positive guidance and discipline, continued focus on providing an enriched, supportive environment that promotes early literacy, brain development and development milestones, health, safety and the critical importance of parent-child relationship building.

The visit promotes and emphasizes:

• Health, safety and an understanding of developmental milestones

• Importance of talking with, encouraging, and playing with a child

• Importance of “conversational reading” with a child every day

• Strategies and information on providing consistent, useful and positive guidance and discipline

• Games parents can play with their child to stimulate healthy growth and development

Parents will receive:

• Giving Your Child a Bright Beginning 24 -36 months handbook

• LearningGames© 24 to 36 Months book

• My Second Picture Book

• The Power of Positive Parenting handbook

• Working Your Way Through the Child Care Maze booklet

• Multi-media DVD (still in development)

• A local community resources guide

• A children’s board book

• CHP+ Child Health Insurance information