A variety of curricular and resource materials are utilized as appropriate. Transportation and child care are provided to enable parents to attend adult education classes and parenting groups. For a family to be eligible, there must be a child under the age of 8 years and one parent must lack a high school diploma, have limited English proficiency, or lack basic academic skills. Its focus is parent-child relationships, development of a competent children, and supporting parents. Parents and children attend neighborhood elementary schools weekly from September to May for 2-hour sessions.
Parents work and play with their children at learning stations set up in basic skill areas.
A 2-day training is available for adopters. The Program PPT is a direct service program using parents as outreach workers. It emphasizes parents' involvement in their children's education and improved student performance through intervention, before problems are insurmountable. PPTs help parents with issues that may have detrimental effects on their children's education and are used in situations when the school has been unsuccessful. PPTs function as peers to parents, providing assistance in a nonthreatening way.