Impact
ParentCorps’ full model has long-term positive impacts on children’s reading achievement, school attendance, and mental health, as shown in a randomized controlled trial with 1,000+ children in low-income neighborhoods in NYC. These impacts include:
In addition, ParentCorps has positive impacts on adult caregivers: teachers improved their family engagement practices and parents showed greater involvement in children’s learning, two critical building blocks for children’s health and development.​​​
These impacts add up. In a cost-effectiveness analysis, ParentCorps had a 4:1 return on investment over and above the well-documented benefits of pre-K.
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Parents' trust in teachers and school leaders
Lastly, ParentCorps Professional Development has powerful impacts on its own and improves home-school connection and parents’ trust in teachers and school leaders, as measured by 9,000+ parents over four years.
Several government and nonprofit organizations endorse ParentCorps as an evidence-based early childhood intervention.
Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development considered the most rigorous registry of evidence-based positive youth development programs, awarded ParentCorps the highest rating for evidence, with suggestions about using Head Start funding for implementation.
The National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, includes ParentCorps in its Compendium of Parenting Interventions, a resource that helps schools, early childhood programs, community-based organizations, and others assess parenting interventions for families of young children.
The nonprofit, nonpartisan research center Child Trends highlights ParentCorps as an evidence-based intervention that improves outcomes for young children.
The Parenting Curricula Review Database, published by the Office of Head Start Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center, lists ParentCorps as one of 28 research-based parenting curricula to help Head Start programs meet Head Start program performance standards.
The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse, for Child Welfare gives ParentCorps their top rating (“well-supported by research evidence”) for mental health prevention and/or early intervention, and is a trusted source for state and federal decision makers in the education sector and beyond.
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Additional endorsements include the Scottish Government’s Early Intervention Framework for Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing and Results for America.
Endorsements
How ParentCorps Works
