Life Skills Progression™ (LSP™)
An Outcome and Intervention Planning Instrument
for Use with Families At Risk
Outcome measures for home visiting programs
The Life Skills Progression™ (LSP™) tool measures a parent’s ability to achieve and maintain a healthy and satisfying life for families. The LSP measures individual parent and infant/toddler outcomes at six-month intervals. Infant/toddler and parent outcomes are measured on 43 items. Parental life skills are those needed to live and parent well. The LSP includes important infant/toddler regulatory and development measures outcomes.
Use of the LSP for Evaluation
Parent skills in key life areas are measured: 1) relationships with family and friends; 2) relationships with children; 3) relationships with supportive resources; 4) education and employment; 5) health and medical care; 6) mental health and substance use; 7) basic essentials; 8) child development. Changes in life skills are seen through assessment at six-month intervals. Overall program outcomes can be seen. Outcomes for individual clients, groups of clients, or caseloads can also be seen. It has been in use for ten years as a Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visitation (MIECHV) benchmark tool for performance reporting.
Recommended by Parents as Teachers, the Life Skills Progression™ meets the affiliate requirements for family-centered assessment and goal setting.
The First Edition of the Life Skills Progression™ (LSP™) by Wollesen and Peifer is available through Brookes Publishing or Amazon.com and other sources.
The 2nd Edition of the Life Skills Progression™ (LSP™) by Wollesen and Richardson is due out in early 2022.
"The long wait is over! Now we can document specifically what works and direct resources toward effective interventions"
- Joanne Martin, Dr. P.H., RN, FAAN, Indiana University School of Nursing"Helps demonstrate individual client achievements as well as programmatic achievements at the aggregate data level."
- Brad Richardson, Ph.D., Research Scientist & Adjunct Associate Professor,University of Iowa School of Social Work, National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice
"Will help us monitor outcomes for children, families, and our program, which will make reporting much easier—and more impressive to our funders!"
- Mimi Graham, Ph.D., Director, Florida State University Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy