History:
Highlights

2010

  • Program wins Social Impact Exchange's Business Plan Competition
  • 45th Anniversary.

2009: Irish Regional Training Center Established

2001

  • Pilot program to serve homeless families throughout Suffolk County, New York launched.
  • Pennsylvania allocates $12 million over three years to expand the Program statewide.

1999: Massachusetts legislature authorizes funding to expand Program across the state.

1998: Pittsfield, MA Study demonstrates that the Program is effective at increasing high school graduation rates.

1979-1996: Included in the National Diffusion Network's annual publication, Educational Programs That Work, and designated an "Educational Program That Works" by New York State.

1978

  • Designated a "Successful Model Program" by the Center for Studies of Child and Family Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health.
  • Validated by the Joint Dissemination Review Panel, National Institute of Education and the U.S. Office of Education as "A Program That Works."

1972: Designated a "Model Compensatory Education Program" by the National Center for Education Communication, U.S. Office of Education.

1965: Dr. Phyllis Levenstein develops The Mother-Child Home Program* model.