Welcome to CIRPA - 
A Parent-Child, Bi-Generational Intervention Approach to Improving Children's Educational and Developmental Outcomes for Children Living in Poverty
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CIRPA is being organized to engage in a robust program of community-/school-based interdisciplinary research with children and families enduring poverty and living in high-poverty areas to:
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1) Design effective, community-based, multi-component systems of protocols, procedures, and technology-based tools to link impoverished families of school-age children with local business sponsors to promote sustainable pathways out of poverty into living-wage employment for children's parents;
2) Design effective school- and home-based comprehensive academic and personal support interventions to promote improved educational and developmental outcomes for at-risk children in poverty with and without disabilities;
3) Explore effects of music/arts program participation on children's educational and developmental outcomes for children in poverty;
4) Design effective, sustainable job coaching strategies for impoverished parents participating in business-family partnership intervention research components as they enter and engage in living-wage employment; and
5) Promote development and implementation of computer-based tools and cell phone intervention applications to enhance intervention effectiveness and sustainability.

By designing, developing, testing, and scaling-up effective practices in these areas, CIRPA is working to help improve overall quality-of-life outcomes for children, youth, and families living in poverty by breaking cycles of generational poverty and promoting improved outcomes in health, education, and economic opportunity.

Read about CIRPA's envisioned inaugural community-based research and philanthropy projects (currently in planning stages):
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Research Projects -

• Creating and Testing "Multi-Level Assessment Tools" (M-LAT) to Guide School and Community Interventions (Identifying Values, Needs, Barriers, and Goals across School, Family, and Community Sectors)
• Developing and Testing "Protocols for Arts-Based and Other Educational Interventions" (PABE) to Guide Effective Arts-Based Interventions and Other Educational interventions to Promote Improved Educational Outcomes for Students Living in Poverty
• Developing the "Community and Family Intervention Model" (CFIM) to Guide and Sustain Multi-level Intervention
• Designing and Testing the "Community Linkages Database" (CLD) as an Integrated, Computer-based Component of the CFIM to Link Families, Schools, and Community Programs; Establish Strategic Participant-Business Partnerships to Promote Pathways Out of Poverty for Impoverished Families; and Identify and Monitor Community Opportunities
• Developing and Testing "School Guidelines for Expanded Opportunities in Music and the Arts for Children and Youth in Poverty" (GEOMA)

Public Awareness, Involvement, and Philanthropic Projects -

• "The Jazz 4 Change Project"
• "The Freedom's Voices Project" and "The Poverty Project"

• "2024 Silent Auction" and "Celebrity Essays on Poverty's Impacts:  Why We Must All Do Our Part"

• The "Pay-it-Forward Pennies for Poverty Alleviation Family Support and Research Initiative" - A Seed-Grant Collective Initiative Establishing the CIRPA Fund for Emergency Family Assistance and Related Research

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Join with
our efforts
​to promote pathways to
a more prosperous, joyous, and equitable
​world.

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Our Vision:

Building an integrated, evidence-based
parent and child, two-generation intervention program to alleviate poverty and promote improved health, educational, and economic outcomes for
historically-underserved populations.

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Organizational Updates

The current CIRPA website presents a conceptual framework for the educational/music education research and philanthropic work described on this site.  Since decisions still are being made regarding CIRPA's organizational structure, this informal organizational entity (i.e., CIRPA) currently is neither soliciting nor accepting funding or donations at this time. 

Website Updates
The CIRPA website is under development.  Pages to which hyperlinks connect are under preparation.  Hyperlinks will become functional at a later date.  Photos on current pages of the CIRPA website are for illustrative purposes only and are not specific to CIRPA's envisioned work.  Since CIRPA currently is in initial, organizational stages, no archival photos exist at this time. 

Please continue to check back for periodic updates.  Thank you for your interest in CIRPA.

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Tommy S. Johnson, Blueprint Jazz Band, Lawrence, Kansas, 2011; Photo by Brian Byers

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"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting
to improve the world."
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- Anne Frank

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