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| Ranking |
Evidence-Based Practice |
| Description |
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.
This program is locally funded by the Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County. |
| Goal / Mission |
To prepare children of disadvantaged families for academic success and to strengthen families through intensive home visiting. |
| 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).
During the 2010-2011 year, the Palm Beach County Parent-Child Home Program conducted more than 7,860 home visits with 264 families and distributed more than 1,300 books and toys. Following participation in the program, 100% of families increased positive verbal interaction and 100% of children increased positive behaviors. |
| Categories |
Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education
Education / Literacy
Social Environment / Children's Social Environment
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| Organization(s) |
Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County |
| Source |
Parent Child Home Program National |
| Date of Implementation |
2009 |
| Geographic Type |
Urban |
| Location |
County: Palm Beach |
| Primary Contact |
Darlene Kostrub, CEO
The Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County
551 SE 8th Street, Suite 505
Delray Beach, FL 33483
561-279-9103
dskostrub@aol.com
http://pbcliteracy.org/Programs/Parent-Child-Ho...
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| For more details |
http://www.parent-child.org/assets/Proven_Outco...
http://www.parent-child.org
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| Target Audience |
Children, Families |
| Submitted By |
Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County |
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