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/
Topics
Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education
Education / Literacy
Community / Social Environment
Date of implementation
1965
Location
USA
For more details
https://www.parent-child.org/home/proven-outcomes/...
Target Audience
Children, Families

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An Evidence-Based Practice meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes at a minimum: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program implementation steps, and outcomes that have demonstrated program success in achieving the program goal in one or more localities.
  2. The results from an evaluation of the program include quantitative measures showing improvement in the outcome(s) of interest after the implementation of the program (i.e. increase in smoking cessation, not just the delivery of a smoking cessation program). The outcome measure(s) is/are compared at relevant time periods before and after the intervention or program implementation. Alternatively, the evaluation study compares the outcome(s) between an intervention group and an appropriate control group.
  3. The study is of peer-review quality and presents numbers in a scientific manner; measurements of precision and reliability are included (e.g. confidence intervals, standard errors), results from statistical tests show a significant difference or change in the outcome measure(s), and relevant point estimates and p-values are presented. Note: if the results from an evaluation of a program are presented in a scientific manner and the outcome measure is improved compared to the baseline measurement or the control group but the difference is not statistically significant, the practice is classified as effective and not evidence-based.