Project CARES involves the evaluation of the Parent-Child Home Program of the Philadelphia School District (PCHP-Philadelphia). Parent-Child Home is a national program aimed at supporting caregivers to involve their young, two- and three-year-old children in activities at home that boost their language and early literacy growth. Paraprofessionals from local communities are prepared by PCHP to visit caregivers in their home two-times each week, during which they introduce books and activities to caregivers.
PCHP-Philadelphia is the largest, central-city site for a PCHP program in the US. For this reason, an evaluation of this program’s impact on children’s language and early literacy development as well as its capacity for involving families in routine home visits is very important for sustaining PCHP-Philadelphia and developing other central-city PCHP programs. The
William Penn Foundation,
National Center for the Parent-Child Home,
School District of Philadelphia, and
Dr. Patricia Manz
from the School Psychology Program at Lehigh University have joined together to conduct an evaluation of PCHP-Philadelphia. The evaluation will show how children and caregivers respond to PCHP throughout the two years that they participate in it. The evaluation will show changes in children’s language and early literacy skills, with special attention to its benefits for Latino children and caregivers. Details about the
PCHP Evaluation
are available on this web site.
The evaluation of PCHP-Philadelphia involves two groups of caregivers and children, those who are enrolled in PCHP and those who are not. For families who are participating in the evaluation activities but not enrolled in PCHP, Project CARES offers Family Connections. Family Connections provides monthly caregiver-child activities, held at Head Start centers located in the families’ communities. Details about
Family Connections
are available on this web site.
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