Learning at Home - HIPPY Program

Founded in 1969 at the NCJW Research Institute for Innovation in Education of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, HIPPY is a home-based education program for parents of preschool youngsters. Since then, HIPPY has spread around the world.

In Argentina, the HIPPY program, known as "Learning at Home" (Aprendiendo en Casa), has been in place since 2009, under the auspices of AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina), a leading Argentinian Jewish non-profit organization. It currently operates in Tucumán in collaboration with Fundación León.

Our mission is to partner with parents to prepare their children for success in school. Decades of research have shown the HIPPY model to be effective in improving school readiness, parent involvement, school attendance, and standardized test scores in reading and math throughout elementary school.

A unique aspect of HIPPY is its scripted curriculum, which is used to teach parents through a peer-to-peer approach, using role-play and interactive activities. This system not only provides one-to-one training for the parent, but it also offers specialized job training for our home visitors and fosters leadership development and career advancement opportunities for our staff and our parents.