Partners

Your partnership helps provide high-quality support to thousands of parents, educators, and healthcare professionals caring for children around the globe.

Caring for children is emotional work. There are many ways to join us in this mission.

Donors & Funders

We thank our generous donors and funders who allow us to create research-based courses, run our Hand in Hand Community, and keep our staff resourced to keep the community going.

Join Our Giving Circle

Endaoment's Universal Impact Pool

UIP awarded Hand in Hand 3 grants our first year of participation and helped us complete our annual campaign. “Open to the public, this fund uses an innovative mechanism called Quadratic Funding to automatically distribute matching donations to all nonprofits that receive donations or grants on Endaoment. It's an all-inclusive approach to supporting the causes you care about, and the Endaoment community as a whole, fostering a more equitable distribution of funds across the nonprofit sector.”

BIJJAR Family Foundation

BIJJAR, a long-time committed funder, provided critical seed funding for Hand in Hand’s research team to participate with Frontiers of Innovation at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, where the team solidified the research agenda and launched the first study.

Foundation for the Contemporary Family

Hand in Hand is committed to helping our Instructors examine and understand how systemic oppression and internalized oppression operate, and how we can heal from their effects.

FCF funded an initiative in our Instructor Program, providing support for the “Parenting, Caregiving, and Teaching for Social Justice Collaborative”. In this collaborative, Instructors from around the world came together to focus on changing our own attitudes and tackling the emotional hurdles we face while working for equity in our cultures, laws, funding, school policies, neighborhoods, and workplaces.

This grant allowed us to focus on the experiences of those of us with marginalized/minoritized racial and ethnic heritages, religious affiliations, perceived gender and relationship status(es), and of those of us with disabilities, in the worldwide communities in which we teach.

Templeton Family Foundation

The generous Templeton Family Foundation, has supported Hand in Hand's general operations and the piloting of new initiatives to provide additional resources post the COVID-19 pandemic.

Instructors

Our Certified Instructors are the beating heart of Hand in Hand, providing local workshops, classes, and support groups to parents and professionals worldwide

Become an Instructor

Researchers

We’re honored to collaborate with faculty at academic and research institutions to ensure the rigor of our research and help continuously evaluate our evidence-based approach.

Learn More

Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

Hand in Hand was accepted as a Portfolio Project with Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. Using their IDEAS Impact Framework, we developed a 4-phase research plan to become an evidence-based training program for early childhood educators. Our research team completed the first study, a feasibility study, under the mentorship of FOI. The study evaluated the feasibility and acceptability of the 6-week experiential online course. Participants noted improved educator efficacy, reduced educator stress, and positive changes in child outcomes. Check out the Impact Report.

Georgetown's Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation

In collaboration with faculty at Castleton University, technical assistance from Georgetown's Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, and consultation with faculty at Menlo College. The Early Pilot Study is the second study conducted to evaluate Hand in Hand's 8-week introductory course for early care and education professionals: The Foundations for Educators Course. The project investigates early educators’ experiences taking the course, the extent to which teachers can implement the tools in their classrooms and their lives with fidelity, decreased teacher stress, and positive teacher-child interactions.

Castleton University

Menlo College

Volunteers

We are so grateful for our volunteers who lend their time and talents to bring our mission to life year after year.

Schools & Community Organizations

We’re trusted to lead trainings ranging from one-day workshops to 8-week courses for early childhood educational staff and mental health and healthcare professionals worldwide.

Train with Us

Northwest Indian College

Bellingham, Washington

The wakanyeja “sacred little ones” project brings our pivotal curriculum to Head Start staff, Campus Child Care Center staff, and parents of young children in the Lummi Nation tribal community. The objective is to improve educational outcomes for tribal children by providing caregivers with six new tools for resolving children's off-track behavior and for getting the support they need to reduce their stress.

SPACE, School of Performing Arts & Cultural Education

Ukiah, California

SPACE offers after-school programs for young people ages 0-18. Their acclaimed musical theater program emphasizes diversity, youth leadership, cross-cultural arts, and exemplary training in the arts. SPACE staff adapted our Building Emotional Understanding curriculum into their Arts programming and has now become the foundation of SPACE’s approach to teaching. Using our tools, teachers create a safe environment in which students are free to be curious, explore, and take pleasure in learning, infusing them with a “super protective factor” against high-risk behaviors later in life.

Project ABC: About Building Connections for Young Children and Their Families

Los Angeles, CA

Hand in Hand collaborated with Project ABC (About Building Connections) to create the Parent-to-Parent Peer Support Project which brings together parents from seven agencies, community-based organizations, and government departments serving families with young children (birth to age 5) in LA County. The training helped parents learn how to exercise listening skills in supporting other parents to handle stressful circumstances, stay close to their children, and make certain that their families stay strong and healthy.

Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center & Ohio Dept of Health

Toledo, Ohio

Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center, in partnership with the Ohio Department of Health, Bureau for Children with Medical Handicaps (BCMH), and Family Voices of Ohio was awarded a federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) three-year grant for the statewide implementation of services for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN). To date nearly 300 public health nurses have participated in the education and coaching on medical home and a listening-based communication tool, Listening with Connection.