The Pottstown location of Friendship House offers the Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP), a national early childhood program that promotes parent-child interaction and positive parenting to enhance children's cognitive and social-emotional development.
The program prepares children ages 16 months through 4 years for academic success and strengthens families through intensive home visiting.
Families that are challenged by poverty, limited education, language barriers and other obstacles to educational and economic success participate in the program over the course of two years (23 weeks per program year). Twice weekly home visits are designed to stimulate parent-child verbal interaction, reading, and educational play critical to early childhood brain development. Each week, a Home Visitor brings a new, carefully selected book or educational toy that remains with the families permanently. All materials and services are provided free to families.
The Parent-Child Home Program utilizes a non-directive approach by modeling behaviors for parents that enhance children's development. The Home Visitors help parents realize their role as their children's first and most important teacher, generating enthusiasm for learning and verbal interaction. The Program empowers parents to take pride in their commitment to and impact on their child's education.
The goals of the Parent-Child Home Program are to increase positive parent-child interaction, increase children's healthy social-emotional development, and to foster pre-literacy skills essential for school readiness.
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Parent-Child Home Program is offered at Friendship House's Pottstown location
