Core Services
Birth & Beyond’s core services are designed to support families with children ages 0–17. These programs form the foundation of what every Birth & Beyond Family Resource Center (FRC) provides, offering parents and caregivers the tools, resources, and community connections to help their families thrive.
Each FRC may also offer additional programs and services tailored to the needs of their local community.
Use the buttons below to learn more about each of our core services and find out how they can support you & your family.
How to Get Started with Services
Connecting with your local Birth & Beyond Family Resource Center (FRC) is the first step toward accessing our services and supports.
Step 1: Make a Referral
There are three easy ways to get started:
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Submit an Online Self-Referral
Complete a quick online form on our -
Reach Out to a Site Directly
Contact your local FRC by phone, email, or in person. Contact details are listed on the -
Need a Little Help?
Visit our Contact Us page, and our team can assist you with completing a referral.
After your referral is submitted, your local FRC will reach out in about14–20 business days to help get you connected with services.
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While you wait, you’re welcome to visit your local site for community events and family activities, it’s a great way to get involved and meet other families in your area.
Home Visitation
Home Visitation professionals provide weekly case management as well as parenting lessons to clients in the privacy of their home. Birth & Beyond Home Visitors utilize a range of programs to best serve the needs of our families.
Parents as Teachers (PAT) is an evidence and research-based national, and international, home visitation program. As a PAT affiliate member, Birth & Beyond offers PAT home visitation programming for families in Sacramento County with children 0-5 years. PAT's mission is to promote optimal early development and heath of children by supporting and engaging caregivers. PAT curricula supports a caregiver’s role in promoting school readiness and healthy development of children by focusing on three areas of emphasis: parent-child interaction, development-centered parenting and family well being. Through PAT programming, home visitors explore topics such as increasing parent knowledge of child development, early detection of developmental delays, prevention of child abuse and neglect, increasing children's school readiness and strengthening community capacity and connectedness with families.
The Nurturing Parenting Program (NPP) curriculum is focused on developing an and nurturing empathetic parent-child relationship and introducing families to positive parenting approaches. Birth & Beyond offers NPP home visitation for families with children aged 6+. Home visitation also connects families with community resources, health education, and information.
The Family Support Initiative (FSI) program is aimed ​at supporting Sacramento families receiving CalWORKs. ​The program utilizes evidence-based home visiting models that are designed to be flexible, relationship​-focused, and culturally respectful. FSI incorporates a wide range of parent-child interaction tools, family goal​-setting, and community resources to foster a healthy parent-child relationship. Families can receive information that is tailored to their specific goals and needs in ​a location of their choice. FSI services are offered to families ​on a long-term ​basis and begin​s with weekly visits.
30% of Families Served by Birth & Beyond participated in Home Visitation
“I learned that your kid is a person. It sounds crazy, but the way I was raised, kids didn’t have a voice. Coming here, kids have a voice and should be heard - not after their 18th birthday, but before.”
Parenting Workshops
Group parenting series designed to improve parenting skills are available at the Birth & Beyond Family Resource Centers, and other convenient locations in the community, in multiple languages. Contact your closest FRC for dates and times of parenting classes!
Parents learn effective parenting skills, including how to manage their own stress and how to positively discipline their children. Classes are available to expectant families and parents with children 0-17 years old.
Approved for Court Mandated Parent Education.
Make Parenting
A Pleasure
Parents learn about child development, empathy, discipline, and empowerment. Classes are available to families with school-age children.
Approved for Court Mandated Parent Education.
Nurturing Parenting Program
EBPP is a parenting skill-building program created specifically for parents of African American children. If focuses on alternative methods of parenting that highlights the unique history and experiences of African American/Black families in the United States.
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Approved for Court Mandated Parent Education.
Effective Black Parenting Program
"I like the fact that [the Parenting Workshop] makes you think differently, and people that normally wouldn't speak in front a room full of people, they will. I've seen people grow and mature over the time while they are in the parenting class. You see people come out of their shell a bit. They feel safe here, this is a place they can open up. I tell the [FRC Aides] everything. Sometimes I come to class, and I just put it all on the table. It's cool that I can go somewhere and do that. I can't even go to my doctor and do that. It's great to come here and not be judged."
20% of Parents Participated in Parenting Workshops
School Readiness
Offers age appropriate learning and development skills and reading resources, as well as information on free books and how to establish reading routines. School readiness helps link families to their local school districts and helps with enrollment requirements.
"I felt really good [after coming to the FRC] for the first time in my life after I had the twins… Being able to come here, I feel the best ever. Physically strong, mentally awesome. I was able to take it home. I feel like a better mother."
Group Supports & Connections
Family Resource Centers provide a stable, neighborhood-based resource for direct service that reinforces good parenting, decreases social isolation, and establishes a community network and connections for families.
The group services encourage the development of relationships between caregivers and opportunities to connect with their community. These services include group exercise, self-defense, support groups, infant safe-sleep workshops, play-groups, car seat classes, community leadership and after-school tutoring for kids, along with community celebrations and events.
32% of Families Participated in
Group Connections
"The demands of parenting, you need something you can look forward to that is just yours. …My friends are here. I love it because our kids are friends and they see each other weekly in Play Care and outside. It’s really important to have the connection in the community."
Crisis Intervention
Each Family Resource Center site has an Intervention Specialist responsible for addressing the urgent needs of families that can spiral into a family crisis. The Intervention Specialist assists families with concrete support in times of need. Families receive advocacy and resources to address their immediate crisis.
51% of Parents Participated in Crisis Intervention Services
