Parent Aware Quality Rating and Improvement System: Standards and Indicators
Parent Aware, Minnesota’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS), provides a common set of program standards for child care and early education programs, and is supported by a mission and principles. The program standards, combined with the Parent Aware Indicators, are also known as the Parent Aware “kindergarten readiness best practices”.
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Pathway to Healing Hubs: A Community Reflection & Action Guide
Planning Tool October 15, 2025
This template is designed to help you co-create a healing hub in your community that centers joy, love, cultural wisdom, and lived experience. Use the space provided to reflect, plan, and dream together.
Hungry for Change: Tackling Food Insecurity and Nutrition Through Systems That Work
Archived Webinar September 22, 2025
Advocacy Efforts: What Tools Are Needed to Drive Equitable Policy and Systems Change?
Archived Webinar September 22, 2025
Advocacy is a critical component of systems change efforts.