Parents as Teachers (PAT)

Parents as Teachers (PAT) offers individually tailored home visits that include developmental assessments, developmental intervention, and education. The program also provides individual therapeutic interventions, specialized group services to promote development of skills in socialization, language, motor, and other domains, as well as therapeutic play groups. Services include support to young children, their families, and their community.

• Ages: 0–5 years old
• Price: Parents as Teachers (PAT) program services are described as FREE.

Parents as Teachers (PAT) is part of the Early Learning Institute (ELI), a private 501c3 nonprofit organization founded in 1999. ELI’s mission is to provide and promote developmental services, education and support to young children, their families and their community. ELI employs a multi-disciplinary staff of early childhood specialists including Teachers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Speech Therapists, Psychologists, Social Workers and Developmental Specialists. More than 60% of ELI’s staff is bilingual, all services are available in English and Spanish, and ELI provides services in the family’s native language whenever possible. Services are relationship based and provided in the most natural and desirable environment for each individual child and family whenever possible, and ELI emphasizes that parents are their children’s first and best teachers. ELI believes children have the best chance for developmental success if interventions begin as early as possible, and ELI’s professional services use a collaborative approach through which parents, professionals and the community work together to meet the needs and interests of the child. Currently ELI serves approximately 600 children and families per month: 350 children with weekly on-going services, 100 in therapeutic play groups and 150 children and families with one time per month services. ELI articulates ethical principles including integrity, honesty, confidentiality, promise-keeping, respect for others, and compassion. ELI takes pride in its ability to build partnerships and create programs quickly to support the changing needs of the community, and provides education, support, and professional training to the community about issues that impact children and families. ELI acknowledges that its main office in Santa Rosa is on the occupied territory of the ancestral homelands of the Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo, who are federally recognized as the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria.

Last updated May 15, 2026.