Community-based early childhood intervention program designed to meet the needs of mothers and their children from birth to age 3. The program draws on the community's cultural traditions and lifestyle, and modern early childhood theory and practice. Parents as Partners trains women from Israeli Arab Bedouin villages as paraprofessional early childhood counselors who then work in their own communities as peer teachers. In different unrecognized villages and townships, playschools have been established, for children between the ages of 1 1/2 to 3, called Bet El-Umm Wal-Tifil - The House of the Mother and the Child. The playschools, open five days weekly, are run by a team of two paraprofessional counselors and a mother on daily rote. The Bet El-Umm Wal-Tifil has been recognized by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor Early Childhood Division as a unique educational framework that meets the needs of the Arab Bedouin community.