Our mission
Every family deserves somewhere to start.
Project Early Learning exists to put behavioral resources in families' hands during times of concern and uncertainty, and to promote strong developmental strategies for every family, everywhere. We believe the months when a family first has questions should be the months they get the most support, not the least. And we believe that support should never depend on zip code, income, insurance status, language, or background.
The gap we fill
The families who wait longest for developmental support are often the same families every system already underserves: families without insurance, families in rural and low-income communities, and families navigating services in a language other than English. Entire counties, in Florida and across the country, have no behavioral providers at all. Where services exist, cost and waitlists put them out of reach for exactly the families who need them soonest. PEL delivers free, live, expert-led training into that gap, open to every family and every organization, with no eligibility screen of any kind.
The road ahead
Where we started. Where this goes.
A decade of teaching families
Long before PEL had a name, its founder spent ten years inside clinical practice teaching parents the strategies behind their children's therapy, family by family, in Brevard County.
Volunteer trainings prove the model
Free parent trainings delivered in partnership with the Down Syndrome Foundation of Florida show that what worked family by family works for a room: families show up when support is free and practical.
Project Early Learning goes live
PEL launches as a live webinar series. In the pilot, 48 families registered and 32 attended. Partner organizations across Florida begin sharing PEL with the families they serve.
Specialized session tracks
Dedicated tracks by concern and age: early communication, behavior, feeding, sleep, and school readiness.
On-demand library
An asynchronous library, so support is there at 2 AM when the worry is, not just when a webinar is scheduled.
Multilingual sessions and materials
Starting with Spanish, so language is never the barrier.
A nationwide free resource
For every family in the wait, with a partner network to match.
Who we are
Built by a clinician who has sat on both sides of the table.
Joshua Levins, BCBA, is the owner of Creative Learning Inc., an ABA clinic serving Brevard County families since 2004, and a doctoral student in Exceptional Student Education at the University of Central Florida. He brings more than 20 years of clinical practice with children ages 2 to 22, and co-founded the Levins Hernandez Developmental Center to expand what families in Central Florida can reach.
Advancing the field
Beyond individual families, PEL is committed to strengthening how the field understands early childhood development. Through a separate, university-based research effort, families who choose to can contribute to science that aims to shorten the road to answers for the next family. Learn more on our Research page.