Transcript Parent Involvement Works!

Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters
Parent Involvement Works!
Mary Lindsey, Ph.D.
Director, Florida HIPPY Training & Technical Assistance Center
Dabaram Rampersad
Assistant Director, Florida HIPPY Training & Technical Assistance Center
Marsha M. Black, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Child and Family Studies
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
1
Workshop Agenda
• Welcome & Introductions
• Background/History of HIPPY
• Essential Features of the HIPPY Model: Staff,
Curriculum, Role Play, Home Visits/Group
Meetings
• HIPPY Program Demonstration Model for Building
Parent and Child Involvement
• Highlights from Parent Involvement
Research/Evaluation Findings
• Questions & Answers
2
What is HIPPY?
• HIPPY is an international evidence-based
home visiting early childhood intervention
program focused on parent-involved
learning for preschool age children.
• The goal of HIPPY is to increase parental
involvement in early educational activities
to promote children’s school readiness
and long term school success.
3
HIPPY International
9 Countries
Argentina, Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, New
Zealand, South Africa, and USA
4
HIPPY USA
• 135 Local Sites
• 21 States &
District of Columbia
Serving more than
15,000 families
5
Florida HIPPY
•
•
•
•
11 Counties
1,600 Children
11 Coordinators
70 Home Visitors
6
Background/History of HIPPY
• Established in 1969 at Hebrew University in
Israel as a research and demonstration
project for :
– Families experiencing economic disadvantage
– Limited English proficiency
– Immigrant families
• Established in the US in 1984 and serves
more than 15,000 families across 135
communities in 21 states.
• Currently in 9 countries.
7
Essential Features of the HIPPY Model
8
Cost per Child
Approximately
$1,500 - $2,000*
Based on
Program operating with
approximately 150 children
Program is in its 3rd year of
operation or beyond
* HIPPY USA national figures.
9
Promoting Parent Involvement
Program Factors
•
•
•
•
Low supervisory caseload
Stable funding
Low levels of staff turnover
Program’s ability to offer tangible
incentives such as goods and services
Parent Involvement in Family Support Programs: An Integrated Theory.
Karen McCurdy and Deborah Daro, Family Relations, 2001, 50, 113-121.
10
How HIPPY Parent Involvement Works!
11
Parent Involvement
12
What Research Says About
Parent Involvement
13
Parent Involvement in Home
Educational Activities
National Research
• Experimental study to examine the effects of HIPPY on children’s early
language skills, emergent literacy and parent involvement.
• Randomized control trial design was used with a sample of low-income
immigrant Mexican American families.
• Mothers reported significant more involvement with their children after 15
weeks of HIPPY compared to the control group in providing home based
literacy and language opportunities, quality instruction and interaction, and
frequent modeling of literacy activities.
Necoehea. D.M. 2007 – unpublished doctoral dissertation
14
Parent Involvement in Home
Educational Activities
National Research
• HIPPY researchers in Texas investigated the relationship of HIPPY parents
to mothers’ involvement in education at home and school, student school
readiness in kindergarten, and student academic outcomes in the third
grade.
• Parent involvement surveys were administered at the start of HIPPY and
again after one program year to 87 HIPPY mothers (79% Latina and 76%
Spanish-speaking).
• Results: Within group analysis revealed a significant increase in report
parent engagement in academic-related activities at home.
Johnson, Martinez-Cantu, Jacobson & Weir, 2012
15
Parent Involvement in Home
Educational Activities
National Research
• HIPPY researchers in Texas conducted a quasi-experimental research study
to investigate the effects of HIPPY on parents and children.
• A randomly selected sample of 54 HIPPY mothers and 54 wait-listed
parents completed a one-time assessment on the HOME (Home
Observation Measurement of the Environment)
• Results: Families in HIPPY had more learning materials in their home and
offered their preschool children a greater variety of learning experiences
than families on the waiting list.
Nievar, Jacobson, Chen, Johnson, & Dier (2011)
16
Parent Involvement in Home
Educational Activities
Florida Research
• Parents completing their first year of a HIPPY program were surveyed
on type and level of direct involvement with their young children.
•
Responses of a matched sample of 366 pairs of HIPPY parents and
366 parents from the 2007 National Household Education Survey data
set were compared on a number of home and community based
educational activities using propensity scoring matching procedures.
•
Results: HIPPY parents were found to not only engage in more
frequent early literacy activities with their preschool age children, they
also reported significantly higher use of research based dialogic reading
strategies and a higher level of participation in community based
educational activities compared to a demographically matched national
sample of parents.
17
Parent Outcomes
• Enriched home language environment.
• Improved confidence and parenting
efficacy
• High levels of involvement when children
enter school.
• Gain confidence in their role as their
child’s most influential teacher.
18
Parent Outcomes
• Learn to initiate, monitor and direct
children’s educational experiences in the
home.
• Become familiar with child development
concepts
• Increase their communication skills
19
Child Outcomes
•
•
•
•
Acquire skills and values that display a
predisposition to learning
Are more self-confident in their role as
learners
Gain increased self-reliance and selfsufficiency
Increase literacy in home environments
20
21