PACE meets three days a week during regular school hours throughout the academic year. Parents and children arrive together, usually on school transportation. Breakfast and lunch are served at the school. The classroom program emphasizes decision making and active learning. Parents teach children's classes for one hour.
Children take naps at school.
Adults spend this hour with a team of teachers at the school working on vocational, family, and life skills. During this Parents' Time, PACE uses the PACE Family Resource Parent Time Curriculum developed by the Family Resource Coalition in cooperation with PACE staff members and participants. Population Served PACE was initiated because of acute needs within Kentucky. When the program was established, the state ranked 50th in the nation in percentage of adults with high school credentials, and one in four children lived in poverty. The participating population tends to be white, female, and between 20 and 25 years of age.