The Parent-Child Home Program is a literacy-based home-visiting program for children ages 2 to 3 years.

Home visitors help parents to realize their role as their child’s first and most important teacher!

Trained home visitors meet with families twice a week for half an hour. These visits are scheduled at the convenience of the parents. The program runs from September to May.

Each week, the home visitors leave a free book or toy that the family can keep. In play sessions with the parent and child, the books and toys are used to show how children can learn from them. The home visitor stresses the importance of talking, listening, reading and playing with your child.

Parents involved in this program have a more language-rich home environment, which contributes to their child’s school success.

Program Outcomes:

During the 2006-2007 school year, PCHP served 80 families in Mifflin County, Juniata County, and Fulton County.  Thirty-seven of those families were from Mifflin County.

Of the 80 families served:

• 90% of the children enrolled in the PCHP improved Language and Literacy Skills, as measured by the TELD-3 Language Assessment Ages and Stages Assessment Tool
  
• 100% of the families have increased their Parent/Child Interaction, as measured by the Evaluation of Parent and Child Together (PACT)
• 100% of the families involved increased parental involvement in family-child language and literacy activities, as measured by PACT and CBT