About Us
At Educate Tomorrow’s Parents (ETP), we are in the business of Prevention – preventing child abuse, neglect, and trauma.
We are also in the business of Dream-Building –
helping teens plan for a bright future and a healthy family.
The Need for Better Family Beginnings
In too many instances, parents are unprepared to provide for, protect, and nurture their children.
The U.S. ranks highest among developed countries for rates of children born to teen parents, children living in poverty, fatherless children, and foster children.
If we are ever to stem the tide of children in need, we must empower adolescents with information, life-skills, and resources to care for the next generation.
Mission
The mission of Educate Tomorrow’s Parents (ETP) is to prepare young adults to care for our next generation of families. ETP offers curriculum for instructing young adults (ages 13-21), aligned with health education and family science standards.
Vision
ETP envisions a world in which all young adults can be fully informed and able to provide, protect, and nurture our next generation of children.
Strategy for Long-term Social Impact
ETP’s strategy for improving children’s health and wellbeing is to improve adult capacities for parenting in these areas:
- Self-sufficiency
- Strong family structure
- Social health
- Physical and mental health
- Parenting and child development awareness.
By providing family health curriculum to teens in high school, ETP is enabling young adults to make healthy choices prior to creating a family, which in turn will strengthen their capacities to care for their future children.
Imagine how well children will thrive if all young adults have the information and skills to:
- Form healthy relationships
- Make thoughtful decisions about if and when they form a family
- Avoid circumstances and substances that can jeopardize their health and plans
- Prevent circumstances that often lead to child abuse and neglect
- Become good providers, protectors, and nurturers for our next generation of children
Here’s why you can have confidence in ETP’s curriculum
ETP has been instructing students since 2005. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic and school closures, our team directly instructed over 9,000 teens. We conducted these programs in a variety of cities and school settings – public, private, juvenile detention, foster youth programs, and special education schools.
After participating in this program, across the board over 95% of students have said they will be better prepared to care for a family!
As the founder, Ms. Rubenstein draws upon her experience in several areas to create ETP’s curriculum.
- Academic – MS degree in Public Health from UCLA, and a BA from University of Illinois
- Career – 30 years’ experience in health information research, analysis, training
- Foster parenting – 15 years caring for 10 foster children, completed 52 parent training sessions, and trained other foster parents
When Covid-19 closed the schools, we decided to re-construct our programs as digital instructional materials that teachers everywhere could easily implement. As a result, we are now educating exponentially more teens, while we are equipping teachers with well-honed and classroom-tested instructional materials.
Our curriculum incorporates the unique voices and lived-experiences from a broad array of people and perspectives. We are also fortunate to have an impressive group of colleagues and community members who review our curriculum prior to publication. They draw upon their expertise in education, psychology, social services, technology, and communications.
ETP’s curriculum has been consistently well-received by teachers, parents, students, and the community.
- You can read community reviews of ETP on Great Nonprofits where we have earned a 5-star rating.
- You can also check out our impact reports from our direct instruction engagements, with program reports and student evaluation statistics.
Brief History of ETP
2005 – Began developing and piloting ETP’s curriculum in California
2008 – Incorporated as a 501(c )(3) nonprofit organization as Education for Successful Parenting.
2011 – Relocated to North Carolina
2017 – Rebranded as Educate Tomorrow’s Parents
2020 – Covid closed schools; unable to continue providing direct instruction in schools, ETP began creating ready-to-use digital versions of lessons so that teachers anywhere in the world could access and implement them.
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