Life Skills Progression: An Outcome and Intervention Planning Instrument for Use with Famalies at Risk

For use with at-risk families of children from birth to 3 years of age, the Life Skills Progression(LSP) is the only reliable, field-tested tool that provides the critical data home visiting programs need to demonstrate their effectiveness and receive support and funding. Generating a broad, accurate portrait of the behaviors, attitudes, and skills of both parents and children, the LSP helps professionals establish baseline client profiles, identify strengths and needs, plan interventions, and monitor outcomes to show that interventions are working. Home visitors use the LSP to measure a variety of family competencies. The tool is comprehensive and easy to use in just 5 10 minutes, an experienced professional familiar with the family can record information on 43 scales in key categories.