HEAD START UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS: DUAL GENERATION APPROACHES

双代办法-同时针对父母和子女-是一种有前途的创新家庭除贫战略。与俄克拉荷马州塔尔萨社区行动项目（CAP塔尔萨）合作，我们建议扩大和加强双代教育计划，并在CAP塔尔萨的开端和早期开端（HS和EHS）计划中对其父母及其子女的影响进行随机试验。这个双代计划，教育途径计划（EPP），提供教育，职业辅导，并为家长软技能培训，而他们的孩子参加先声夺人计划。明确的目标是促进低收入家庭各代人的经济自给自足和福祉。在该奖项的第一年，CAP塔尔萨将扩大和加强EPP，并根据最新的研究加强其课程。由2014年秋季开始，我们会展开一项推行研究，重点是模式的真确性、双代计划的优点和挑战，以及一项成效研究，探讨资源增值计划对家长和子女的成效。研究结果将对双代方法如何影响儿童发展和家庭福祉产生影响，并将为如何将这种方法纳入Head Start编程提供指导。

Dual-generation approaches-targeting parents and children simultaneously- represent a promising and innovative antipoverty strategy for families. In collaboration with the Community Action Project of Tulsa, Oklahoma (CAP Tulsa), we propose to expand and strengthen a dual-generation education program and to conduct a randomized trial of its impact on parents and their children in CAP Tulsa's Head Start and Early Head Start (HS and EHS) programs. This dual-generation program, the Education Pathways Program (EPP), provides education, career coaching, and soft-skills training for parents while their children attend Head Start programs. The explicit goal is to promote the economic self-sufficiency and well-being of low-income families across generations. During Year 1 of the award, CAP Tulsa will expand and intensify EPP and strengthen its curriculum based upon the latest research. Starting in fall 2014, we will launch an implementation study, which will focus on the fidelity of the model and the strengths and challenges of the dual-generation program, as well as an effectiveness study examining the impact of EPP on parent and child outcomes. Findings will have implications for how dual-generation approaches influence child development and family well-being and will offer guidance on how to integrate this approach into Head Start programming.