HIPPY is a home-based early intervention program that helps parents provide educational enrichment for their preschool children. The program stresses the vital role that parents' play in their children's early education and is designed specifically for those parents who may not feel confident enough in their own abilities to teach their children what they consider "school knowledge". The basic HIPPY program model addresses directly the first National Educational Goal that by the year 2000 all children will enter school ready to learn and, more specifically, the second objective which states that parents will have the materials and support they need to help their children at home. By supporting parents, the primary goal of the HIPPY program is to increase vulnerable children's success in school and, ultimately, in adult life.