Curriculum training sessions demonstrated high variability across individual schools, with greater or lesser degrees of effectiveness. Monthly training sessions focus on professional development and job training rather than on preparing PTMs to work with children. Late starters miss the 7-week summer training session. The PTMs are fulfilling their responsibilities, though many are serving fewer families than originally stipulated. The need for a parent assistant in each school is uncertain.
Liaisons play different roles in the schools.
An active, dedicated Monitor is necessary for effective training. Accountability PTMs are showing up in the homes, sometimes even in unsafe situations. Employment opportunity PATF leaders are working to make the job of a PTM feel like a real job. Some schools believe the primary goal of PATF is job training for PTMs rather than providing services to at-risk children. Board-school communication Methods Email is not being used effectively.