The HOPE Program provides family-centered, comprehensive, coordinated, quality education services reflecting recommended practices. Staff members represent a wide variety of disciplines working together with families and other agencies as a team to meet the needs of children in the Program. HOPE's emphasis on the team approach in meeting the needs of children and families allows for continued provision of quality early-intervention services. In making decisions for their child, the family is the most important team member. Early learning is enhanced through play and social interactions, the most powerful interactions occurring between parent and child.
Young children learn best in familiar environments.
Families determine their level of involvement in on-going services based upon their concerns, priorities and resources. The HOPE Infant Family Support Program serves children ages birth to three who are showing a significant delay in at least one area of development or have a condition with a known probability of causing a disability or delay. Families who live in the North Coastal, North Inland, Poway and South County regions of San Diego County fall within the geographic area served by the HOPE Infant Family Support Program. The HOPE Infant Family Support Program currently provides services to approximately 400 families in the South County, North Inland, and North Coastal regions of San Diego County. Publications Dear Mom and Dad A notebook of letters from the point of view of children, from birth to 2 years, on their development and the ways that parents can assist.