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History
RUSH Initiative was founded in 2001 as an outgrowth of a faith based organization, with a core mission to help children succeed in school. Originally, RUSH operated a school based medical clinic and therapy program understanding that children have to be healthy and in school to learn, and need strategies to deal with the uncommon number of mental health problems in their lives.
While both programs were helpful, neither achieved our core mission. RUSH discovered that the average poor child began kindergarten two years behind the average middle class child because parents weren’t teaching the child skills necessary to start school prepared. RUSH then started a family literacy preschool program.
Four years ago RUSH created a new curriculum called First Teachers@home, which included a strong component for behavior modification and disciplining as well as emergent literacy, math and science.
First Teachers@home formed several delivery components: one visits families in their homes weekly, another partners with schools, churches and social services agencies to provide a weekly program at their facility. RUSH is committed to bringing its expertise on parenting to as many families as possible in Alabama and beyond.
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