Parent-Child Home Program Openings Available in Stoughton

For its third year in session, the Parent-Child Home Program will resume this fall through Stoughton Public Schools.

The aim of the program is to help parents prepare their young children for later success in school. Children aged between 16 months and 2.5 years old are eligible for the program, Stoughton school officials said this week.

The next group program is set to begin in October, and there is no cost to parents who decide to participate. The program is a two-year commitment that follows the Stoughton Public School calendar.

As part of the program, parents and their children are visited twice a week at their homes by a Parent-Child Home Visitor, who brings gifts of books and toys as program materials. The HV also demonstrates ways to use the gifts for educational benefit to children, according to school officials.

For more information or to express interest in participating, contact Maryann Dawson, Parent-Child Home Program Coordinator, at 781-344-7003 x7305 or by email at m_dawson@stoughtonschools.org.

More information on the Parent-Child Home Program can be found at parent-child.org.