CHILDREN'S EQUITY COALITION

HIPPY USA's vision is that all parents and caregivers are empowered and engaged to teach and prepare their children for educational success.

The goals of HIPPY USA include growth into new communities, increasing the capacity of the national office, building brand awareness, expanding research, fostering innovations, and supporting expansion efforts of existing HIPPY agencies.

HIPPY USA six strategies for achieving its vision and goals:
1) Growth. Available in communities where we are most needed. Measured by the number of families, health of local programs, number of local program sites, retention of families and budget/income investments.

2) Capacity. Represents its commitment to excellence measured by performance, impact and endurance. Defined by board engagement, training and certifications, donor engagement and giving and new partnerships.

3) Branding. Increase its visibility through multiple platforms. Developed through the interactive website, social media strategy and alumni network.

4) Research. Implement coordinated evaluation and research projects. Focus on parent/child outcomes, risk reduction, healthy choices and workforce development initiatives.

5) Innovation. Approach its future with passion for partnerships, creativity and focus on families. Emerging technologies include digital HIPPY platforms, family focus (2Gen + more), social enterprise and expanding curricula.

6) Local Programs. Sustained and expanded through model efficacy, superior performance and distinctive impact. Supported through programmatic data collection and storytelling, diversified funding and parent and provider advocacy.

HIPPY helps parents empower themselves as their children's first teacher by giving them the tools, skills and confidence they need to work with their children in the home. The program was designed to bring families, organizations and communities together and remove any barriers to participation that may include limited financial resources or lack of education.

HIPPY USA is the national office for the network of state coordinating offices and local HIPPY programs in the United States, with the primary responsibilities of providing training and technical assistance; developing and improving the HIPPY materials and model; conducting outreach and advocacy; collecting national data; and overseeing research. In addition, HIPPY USA has five state offices and three state contacts that aid and support to new and existing HIPPY programs operating in their states.

For 30 years, HIPPY USA has been successfully delivering its early learning model to parents across the country

During the 2018-19 program year, HIPPY USA sites served over 14,000 children and their parents or guardians. Almost 1,000 HIPPY employees, of which 78% are Home Visiting paraprofessionals, taught parents early childhood education lessons by completing over 280,000 home visits.

Involvement is what HIPPY USA is seeking to accomplish. Involvement is more than just parents. We have untapped areas of this country in need of solutions to break the generational achievement gap. HIPPY USA must drive new partnerships that bring people together who are seeking to accomplish a common goal: educating parents and families.

Tracking the data is powerful and necessary because the full story is about more than school readiness and parental involvement. The story has sub-chapters that we must develop by focusing on:
1) Empowerment for kids with confidence, knowledge, and social awareness and critical thinking. These things make the difference between visiting kids in college as opposed to visiting them in prison.

2) Empowerment for parents as learners, teachers, “doers." Parents learn how to be better parents, and literacy is promoted in the home, and education becomes a “family value." These parents become future home-based-educators (HBEs) and earn wages based on a skill they've developed. There is great power and dignity in earning money for a skill that is uniquely yours.

3) HIPPY is workforce investment, economic empowerment, self-reliance and self-sufficiency. Employers love this—because people that are accustomed to working normally continue working.