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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…
Family and child well-being is vital to the health of America's neighborhoods and communities. Recognizing this fact when reauthorizing the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program in 2005, Congress appropriated $150 million to support demonstration programs in the areas of healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood. Managed by the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF), these initiatives were designed to have a broad reach, including marriage and relationship education services for married and engaged couples. Of the 116…
To promote peer-to-peer learning and dissemination of promising practices, the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) sponsored a site exchange series in late winter and spring 2011 focused on partnerships in Responsible Fatherhood programs. During these two- to three-day exchanges, a "host" grantee--working with OFA's Technical Assistance (TA) Team--designed a site visit schedule and learning session for a small group of visiting grantees. Host agencies were selected by Federal program officers and technical assistance experts based on performance and expertise on a high-priority topic within…
This paper is an endeavor to look at healthy marriage education programs funded by the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) designed specifically to meet the needs of unmarried couples expecting a child or co-parenting a newborn. It looks at the unique challenges of the participants, varied program designs and service delivery strategies, as well as outcomes related to a specific group of healthy marriage grant programs. The intent is to continue the conversation around the question, "Do healthy marriage programs work?" raised and addressed in the Building Strong Families Study(Wood, McConnell,…
Bringing the Parent, Family, and CommunityEngagement Framework to Your Program: Beginning a Self-Assessment takes you through the first step ofbringing the PFCE Framework to your program. This stepis focused on thinking together and talking about the PFCE Framework, what it means, what it really means, and where your program is in the process of moving toward systemic, integrated and comprehensive PFCE. It can be used as part of your current efforts to regularly assess the PFCE aspects of your program and engage in continuous learning andimprovement. Using this research-based tool will lead…
