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LaVedalene<\/span> Guy first heard about the Navajo Nation Growing in Beauty Program after taking her older children to their doctor\u2019s appointments. Once she found out that the program would conduct screenings, such as vision and hearing, along with developmental evaluations, she knew she wanted her baby daughter Mackenzie to be a part of it. <\/span><\/p>\n

Guy\u2019s older children were receiving help for speech delays, and she wanted Mackenzie to start learning as soon as possible. <\/span><\/p>\n

The First Things First Navajo Nation<\/a> Regional Partnership Council funds Growing in Beauty, which in addition to the developmental screenings, helps children enter early intervention programs in the region. The program also manages voluntary at-home visits with participating families where a trained professional provides parenting information, models ways to support healthy development and connects parents to community resources. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Guy and Mackenzie were accepted into the program when Mackenzie was a baby and have been involved ever since. Now that Mackenzie is almost 3 years old, Guy has seen a difference in her learning. <\/span><\/p>\n

Guy said she appreciates the developmental screenings that check milestones that Mackenzie should be reaching and learning new ways to help support her daughter\u2019s healthy development through the twice-<\/span>a month<\/span> home visits.<\/span><\/p>\n

During a recent visit, the parent coach did an activity with Mackenzie, where she had different objects and asked the child to categorize into colors. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThen she mixed it all up,\u201d Guy said. \u201cAnd while we were talking, my daughter was color coding all the red colors together, then crayons, and shapes and the bear. And then she started stacking items from smallest to largest. She\u2019s doing stuff like that on her own now.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The parent coach also brings Mackenzie a book at each visit, which Guy reads to her. \u201cWe ask her questions while reading the book, \u2018Why is she crying?\u2019 and point out things, \u2018This is a boy and this is a girl.\u2019\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Now that Mackenzie attends a child care, the teachers have told guy that Mackenzie loves to be involved in activities, especially reading. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019ll open a book when the teacher says, \u2018OK, let\u2019s read.\u2019 It makes me happy inside to hear that about my child,\u201d Guy said.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cShe\u2019ll open a book when the teacher says, \u2018OK, let\u2019s read.\u2019 It makes me happy inside to hear that about my child,\u201d LaVedalene Guy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":25872,"template":"","tags":[137,138,172,297,301],"class_list":["post-25972","family-stories","type-family-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-tribal","tag-developmental-screenings","tag-navajo-nation","tag-health","tag-health-and-developmental-screenings","regions-navajo-nation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNavajo Nation Growing in Beauty Program instills a love of learning in young girl - First Things First<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cShe\u2019ll open a book when the teacher says, \u2018OK, let\u2019s read.\u2019 It makes me happy inside to hear that about my child,\u201d LaVedalene Guy said.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ftf-stg.magnetry.com\/es\/region-stories\/navajo-nation-growing-in-beauty-program-instills-a-love-of-learning-in-young-girl\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Navajo Nation Growing in Beauty Program instills a love of learning in young girl\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cShe\u2019ll open a book when the teacher says, \u2018OK, let\u2019s read.\u2019 It makes me happy inside to hear that about my child,\u201d LaVedalene Guy said.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ftf-stg.magnetry.com\/es\/region-stories\/navajo-nation-growing-in-beauty-program-instills-a-love-of-learning-in-young-girl\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"First Things First\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AZFirstThingsFirst\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-12-02T23:56:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ftf-stg.magnetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Navajo-Nation-Impact-2019.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"6000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"3144\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AZFTF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Tiempo de lectura\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutos\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ftf-stg.magnetry.com\/es\/region-stories\/navajo-nation-growing-in-beauty-program-instills-a-love-of-learning-in-young-girl\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ftf-stg.magnetry.com\/es\/region-stories\/navajo-nation-growing-in-beauty-program-instills-a-love-of-learning-in-young-girl\/\",\"name\":\"Navajo Nation Growing in Beauty Program instills a love of learning in young girl - 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