Imprints Cares

Founded in 1969, Imprints Cares is an education nonprofit in Forsyth County, NC. Our mission is to enrich children's development while supporting their families on the journey of parenthood. Over the last 52 years, we have created a comprehensive portfolio of services aimed at addressing poverty through a multi-generational model that helps break the cycle of poverty through positive parenting, addressing the social drivers of health, and enhancing opportunities for children and their families to reach their full potential. 

Our Ready for School programs target the needs of children (prenatal to 5 years old) who face the highest risk for academic failure through a tiered level of services including:

Reach out and Read – Pediatricians prescribe new age-appropriate books to children from 6 months to 5 years old as part of the well-child visit.

Pediatric Parenting Connections - Family Educators are co-located in pediatric practices to provide onsite consultation and support for parents of young children. Common concerns include: breast feeding support, positive parenting techniques, developmental delays, sleep issues

Pediatric Parenting Connections: Young Mom's Program - An intensive health-to-home initiative designed to support young moms ages 14-21 through the Wake Forest Baptist Health Birthing Center.

Book Babies - Low intensive home visiting that combines literacy coaching with the delivery of age appropriate books.

Parents as Teachers (PAT) – Intensive home visiting that promotes positive parenting and the social/emotional development of young children.

Family, Friends and Neighbors - Family educators support informal in-home childcare providers and offer critical tools to enhance both the learning environment and child development.

Our Expanded Learning programs serve children throughout elementary school, offering high quality before and after school care, including a special needs inclusion program, and summer enrichment where children discover, learn and grow. We currently have 20 sites, including 8 Title 1 schools. During the 2021-22 school year, we will also serve three additional Title 1 schools through an I-Cares grant in collaboration with WS/FCS. During summer 2021, Imprints Cares offered before and after-school care at four schools for children attending the RISE program. Imprints Cares provided more than $600,000 in scholarships during the 2020-2021 school year to support remote learning at five tuition free sites and to provide access to children of low-income families to quality before and after-school care.