Head Start Birth to Five partners with LA Mission College to offer a pre-apprentice opportunity for Head Start parents. The Parent Apprenticeship Program is a two-year pilot program for Head Start parents interested in a career in early childhood education. The cohort designed program seeks to take parents and help them obtain their foundational preschool teacher permit by enrolling them in a 4-course college series that meets the California state requirements. Parents in the cohort program receive college success workshops designed to build skills for studying, test taking, and notetaking. In addition, a professional development coach meets with them once a month to ensure all barriers to success are addressed. The PAP pilot (Cohort I) is expected to end Spring 2021 with apprenticeship placement beginning in August of the same year.
For more information about the Parent Apprenticeship Program, please contact the Program Training Manager at [email protected].