Parent-Child Home Reaches 500 Families
Building on its first-year success with 160 families in southeast Seattle, United Way of King County’s Parent-Child Home Program has begun its 2012 expansion to 500 families. PCHP reaches out to diverse, low-income families in southeast, southwest and central Seattle as well as north Seattle/Shoreline, Bellevue’s Crossroads area, Snoqualmie Valley and south King County.
Want to learn more about PCHP? Get in-depth information about the local and national history of the program, hear from experts on early brain development and find out more about the program’s exciting results.
Stories from the field
We asked the nine organizations already expanding PCHP to describe something inspirational that has happened with one of their families, and they responded with some great stories. Experiences like these stoke their passion for helping isolated families prepare their children for academic success.
- “What inspires me is seeing the faces of the children who are really happy when I go visit them. The enthusiasm in their faces when we read, play and sing with them—sometimes I cannot even describe the joy I feel.”
- “It’s the small changes I notice. Even one small thing like a parent going from giving absolutely no praise to offering just one or two gentle taps on the shoulder—it can be life-changing.”
- “I have a single father raising his daughter alone who was in the program a few years ago. He still comes by to visit and texts me to let me know how she’s doing in school. He’s become a huge advocate for her education.”
- “We have one parent who’s been so excited by having books in the house that she wants more. She has no money to buy them, but she’s so thrilled about her son learning that she found some cardboard, colored and cut out all the letters in the alphabet, covered them with plastic wrap, and hung them up in the house. It was wonderful to see her excited enough to do this really spontaneous thing.”
