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October's Charity of the Month:
The Parent-Child Home Program

A parent is a child’s best teacher. Each year throughout the U.S., however, millions of children will enter kindergarten a step behind their classmates because of a missing link between parents involvement in their children’s first stages of educational development.

The Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) is a nonprofit literacy intervention program dedicated to helping families challenged by poverty, limited education, language and literacy barriers overcome these obstacles to give their children the head start needed for a successful transition into the school system.

The MDRT Foundation awarded a $10,000 grant to the national center of PCHP to help fund the expansion of PCHP sites in approximately 10 communities throughout the U.S. This grant was sponsored by Willie J. Goldwasser, CLU, ChFC, a 32-year MDRT member and Platinum Knight from Newton, Massachusetts.

A trained Home Visitor is assigned to a family who makes 30-minute visits twice weekly to facilitate verbal interaction, reading and educational play activities. It is during these personal and interactive meetings that the Home Visitors instill confidence in both the parents and children to encourage school readiness. Typically families participate in a two-year program when their children are between the ages of 2 and 3; however, a child can enter this program as early as 18 months.

Since 1979, TPCHP based in Long Island, New York, has helped thousands of families become stronger units by teaching self-reliance, self-esteem and self-determination.

“Children who complete The Parent-Child Home Program are not only entering school ready to learn, they are truly ‘soaring to success,’” said Sarah E. Walzer, J.D., executive director of PCHP. “They are reading above grade level, they are enjoying school, and their parents are not only celebrating their children’s successes but are also accessing educational opportunities of their own.”

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