Parent-Child Home Program
An Evidence-Based Practice
Description
Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) assists families challenged by poverty, limited education, and language and literacy barriers in preparing their young children to succeed in school. Each family is matched with a Home Visitor, who visits the family for 30 minutes twice a week. During each session, the Home Visitor models verbal interaction, reading, and play activities, showing the parents how to use books and toys to help their children build language and literacy skills in preparation for school.
Goal / Mission
To prepare children of disadvantaged families for academic success and to strengthen families through intensive home visiting.
Impact
When families are engaged in facilitated discussion, the participating families tend to talk more, read more, and have more positive interactions with their children. They engage in more educational activities at home and in their communities.
Results / Accomplishments
This program strengthens the parent-child relationship and helps young children increase their language and literacy skills, as well as improve their social-emotional development. Longitudinal, multi-site, randomized control trials found that Parent-Child Home Program children gained 17 points on IQ assessments, going from 84.9 to 101.9, whereas the combined control groups' IQ remained stable (89.9 to 90.4). A statistically significant increase in receptive vocabulary was also found in Program children and not in the control groups. A multi-site, longitudinal, location-randomized evaluation of Parent-Child Home Program participants found that, as of third grade, there was a statistically significant reduction in the need for special ed classes for Parent-Child Home Program graduates as compared to controls (14% vs. 39%). A longitudinal randomized control group study of The Parent-Child Home Program found that low-income children who completed two years of the Program went on to graduate from high school at the rate of middle class children nationally, a 20% higher rate than their socio-economic peers, and 30% higher than the control group in the community (p<0.05).
About this Promising Practice
Primary Contact
The National Office:
163B Mineola Boulevard
Mineola, NY 11501
516-883-7480
info@parent-child.org
https://www.parent-child.org/
163B Mineola Boulevard
Mineola, NY 11501
516-883-7480
info@parent-child.org
https://www.parent-child.org/
Topics
Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education
Education / Literacy
Community / Social Environment
Education / Literacy
Community / Social Environment
Date of implementation
1965
Location
USA
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Target Audience
Children, Families