NU2Gen Co-director, Dr. Teresa E. Sommer, discusses the impacts of two-generation education and career programming for youth and their parents and highlights the first-year implementation of HOPE Toledo Promise.
“We know that parents have the greatest influence on children’s trajectories. They are the primary engine of healthy or unhealthy development for children; they serve as educational role models and we know that when you strengthen parents’ own skills, it’s likely to have cascading, or what we would call long-term sustained, effects on children,” says Dr. Sommer.
Check out the full College Promise Network Webinar & Blog here.