Continuing effects of early enrichment in adult life: The Turkish Early Enrichment Project 22 years later

Community-Based Family Literacy Program: Comparing Different Durations and Family Characteristics

“…Parents with limited resources may be more willing to learn and try new skills. Previous family literacy programs have targeted families with limited resources [43] and it has been shown that explicitly teaching parents strategies can help improve intergenerational literacy [44].…”

The continued effects of home intervention on child development outcomes in the Kingdom of Bahrain

“…It was modelled, in part, after the HIPPY programme (Lombard, 1981) and since has undergone revisions. In Turkey, the Turkish Ministry of Education in collaboration with ACEV (The Mother Child Education Foundation) serves thousands of families successfully every year with MOCEP (Kagitcibasi, Sunar, Bekman, Baydar, & Cemalcilar, 2009).…”

Promotion of mental health and prevention of mental disorders: priorities for implementation

“…Pre-school programmes indicate a benefit-to-cost ratio as high as 17.6 to 1 (28), with favourable benefit-cost ratios being reported for even the most intensive programmes. Examples of successful implementation in LMIC contexts include the development of a preschool programme for families of low education in Bangladesh (30) and the long-term impact of the Turkish Early Enrichment Project implemented by mothers with the help of local paraprofessionals (31). Due to the limited evidence on scaling up in LMICs, enrichment/preschool education integrating emotional and social skills development for children is recommended as a good practice.…”