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 Community
Service Programs
 Home
Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)
 A home-based,
school readiness and literacy program for families with children
from 3-5 years of age that uses home visiting for families
living in the District of Columbia's Wards 7 and
8 to enhance parents' effectiveness in positively influencing
their children's development. The program uses the
curriculum from HIPPY USA. This effort is being conducted in
partnership with the East River Family Strengthening Collaborative
and the Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative. These
two organizations are part of the city-wide Healthy Families/Thriving
Communities Collaborative that have been established to increase
the capacity for communities to address the multiple and complex
issues that lead to child abuse and neglect. For more information
contact Marisa Brown, (brownm4@georgetown.edu or
202-687-8907) or go to HIPPY USA http://www.hippyusa.org/
Parent-Child
Home Program
The Georgetown
University Center for Child and Human Development (GUCCHD)
has received funding from the Government
of the
District of Columbia, Department of Human Services, Early
Care and Education
Administration to implement the Parent-Child Home Program
(PCHP) in Wards 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia.
The PCHP is an
early childhood literacy program that focuses on building
the skills of parents and other care takers as their
child’s
first and best teachers. Home visitors are hired from
the community to be served to make twice weekly visits to the
home and introduce
books and toys to promote early learning.
The GUCCHD
will replicate the PCHP program for a two-year
period with the goal of being certified by the national
PCHP office.
Program implementation also requires data collection
to help support the already extensive body of research
that
demonstrates
the benefits of the PCHP into the middle school years.
In
implementing this project the GUCCHD will work together with
community partners with whom we share interests
and a history
of collaboration. This includes but is not limited
to the Healthy Families/Thriving Communities Collaboratives,
the
Family Empowerment
Center, D.C. Public Schools, the Department of Mental
Health, the Addiction, Prevention and Recovery Administration,
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families and the Child
and
Family Services
Agency.
The targeted
population is families participating in the New Communities
Projects and young mothers
participating
in the
New Heights initiative for teen parents. The project
will
serve up
to 25 children in the first year and up to 50 children
in the second year. The children will range in
ages from 16
months
through 2 years of age. Families will receive referrals
to other early
childhood programs such as child care, early intervention,
head start, and health care and community-based
social services.
Contact information:
Project Director, Marisa C. Brown 202-687-8907,
brownm4@georgetown.edu
Project Coordinator, Tiffany Knight 202-687-8617
Supporting
Children and Families Towards Bright Futures
A program
for families living in homeless shelter in the District of
Columbia that supports and increases parenting and advocacy
skills by utilizing community services. A pediatric nurse specializing
in developmental screening and mental health conducts mental
health screening and referral for parents, developmental and
mental health screening and referral for children, health assessments
and referral. The
program also provides health, mental health and nutritional
counseling using the Bright Futures guidelines and
instructs family members in how to stimulate their children's
development via age-appropriate activities. Contact Donna Shelly
(shellydm@georgetown.edu or
202-687-2095) for more information.
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