Hanover Hospital Receives Grant from Target for Parent-Child Home Program

Officials at Hanover Hospital announced that Target has generously donated a grant for $1,500 in support of the hospital’s Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP). 

The grant is part of ongoing efforts by Target to strengthen families and communities throughout the country, and specifically, to recognize the importance of improving family literacy and parenting in families at risk of educational disadvantage.   “At Target, we are making a real difference every day through our grant-making program,” said Laysha Ward, Vice President, Community Relations, Target.  “We’re proud to partner with Hanover Hospital as part of our ongoing commitment to give back to the communities where our guests and team members live and work.”

According to Courtney Stoner, Director, Community Health and Development at Hanover Hospital, “We are about to launch the sixth year of PCHP, and Target’s support will help us reach 50 families in the Greater Hanover Area.”

Offered as a grant program by Hanover Hospital Wellness Connection since 2002, the Hanover PCHP is a proven family literacy and parenting program.  Families with children age two and three are visited twice weekly by a Home Visitor.  The Home Visitor, using carefully selected books and toys, models verbal interaction and parenting techniques for the parent and child, through reading and educational play.  The new book or toy is then given to the family to continue the learning process.

Goals and objectives of the program are to increase the parent’s positive verbal interaction with their children; strengthen parenting skills; prepare children to enter school ready to learn, and improve school success rates.  The program also helps to create a stronger parent-child bond and a more stable family unit.

For more information about Hanover Hospital’s Parent-Child Home Program, please contact Shelli Panebaker, at (717) 633-3547.