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Parents as Teachers program helps those in military
Kevin Lavery, KWMU (2006-02-24)
Thirteen-month-old Hanna Rutledge plays with her mother Amy. Hanna's father is deployed in Iraq. The family lives at Ft. Leonard Wood. (Kevin Lavery, KWMU)
ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Public Radio) - On Friday, U.S. Senator Kit Bond announced a $1 million initiative to expand the early childhood program Parents As Teachers on four Army bases and create new chapters on five others.

One of the four in line for expansion is Fort Leonard Wood in the Missouri Ozarks. That's where KWMU's Kevin Lavery found the program at work in the life of one mother raising her kids alone. © Copyright 2012, St. Louis Public Radio