This fact sheet profiles the Parents as Teachers program, an evidence-based home visiting approach that builds strong families and promotes positive parent-child interaction so children are healthy, safe, and ready to learn. Findings from a 2004 study on the benefits and costs of prevention and early intervention programs are shared and indicate Parents as Teachers had the largest benefit per dollar of cost ($1.23) of all reviewed pre-kindergarten education programs for children up to age 3. Goals of the Parent as Teachers program are explained and include: enhance parent knowledge of child…
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Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) aims to promote preschoolers' school readiness by supporting parents in providing instruction in the home. The program model is designed for parents who lack confidence in their ability to prepare their children for school, including parents with past negative school experiences or limited financial resources. The HIPPY program model offers weekly activities for 30 weeks of the year, alternating between home visits and group meetings (two one-on-one home visits per month and two group meetings per month). HIPPY sites are encouraged…
Un servicio del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos, la Administración para Familias y Niños ? ACF -, la Oficina de Asistencia Familiar ?OFA - , el Centro Nacional de Información para la Paternidad Responsable ? NRFC ? colecta y publica información que promueve y apoya la paternidad responsable y específicamente apoya las iniciativas del fondo de ACF ?Promoviendo la Paternidad Responsable?. NRFC también es un recurso esencial para que todos aprendan más sobre la importancia de la paternidad responsable y los asuntos de paternidad.NRFC presenta información sobre…
Part of a series of fact sheets that discuss how and why the child support program provides innovative services to families across six interrelated areas to assure that parents have the tools and resources they need to support their children and be positively involved in raising them, this fact sheet focuses on ways in which the child support program can help prevent the need for its services by promoting responsible childbearing and parenting choices and by raising awareness--especially among teenagers--of the financial, legal, and emotional responsibilities of parenthood. Examples of how…
