Our Silver Anniversary
From Local Organizing to National Leaders
Twenty-five years ago, parent and community organizers joined forces with educators to pilot a relational home visit model, Parent Teacher Home Visits, at eight Sacramento, California schools in an effort to counter deeply-held mistrust and disrupt the cycle of blame between home and school. Success and significant media attention fueled rapid growth and an organization was born! In the intervening years, PTHV expanded to more than 700 communities across 28 states and the District of Columbia.
During the 2022-2023 school year, we will commemorate our Silver Anniversary Celebration by honoring our organizing roots and setting the stage for future growth and innovation that upholds these beliefs. Our aim for our Silver Anniversary is to not only increase national awareness and interest in our evidence-based, high-impact family engagement model, but also support practitioners so that they may actualize student success as a result of their home visits and influence home visit-friendly policies and practices.
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Silver Anniversary Highlights
Stories of Impact
Over the course of our 25th year, we will uplift the stories of 25 individuals – parents, teachers, and students – whose lives have been touched by the transformational power of Parent Teacher Home Visits. Meant to inspire deep reflection and a call to action, these personal narratives will complement a comprehensive impact report that not only summarizes key successes and recent research findings but outlines PTHV’s strategic goals and priorities over the coming years.
Parent Teacher Home Visits Week
We will celebrate our inaugural national Parent Teacher Home Visits Week September 19 – 24, 2022, to highlight the connection between our model of relational home visits and improved student outcomes. The goal of Parent Teacher Home Visits Week is two-fold: promote the value of home-school partnerships at the national level as well as support communities to advance their own local home visiting practice.
25th Anniversary Learning & Networking Experience
A reception on June 8, 2023, will serve as the culminating Silver Anniversary event. We will welcome teacher-leaders and administrators to take stock of the impact home visits and review the results of the first National Parent Teacher Home Visits Week. We will celebrate schools, districts, and educators who’ve advanced home visit practices, and bestow the annual Jocelyn Graves Award for Distinguished Service in Public Education.
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2021-22 Impact
Parent Teacher Home Visit Highlights
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States +DC
525
Sites
8234
Teachers Trained
26507
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PTHV advances student success and school improvement by leveraging relationships, research, and a national network of partners to advance evidence-based practices in relational home visits within a comprehensive family engagement strategy.
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PTHV is a nonprofit grassroots network that must raise its operating budget every year. Like the local home visit projects we help, our network is sustained by collaboration.