Parent-Child Relationship Programs has a long and rich history in the Infant Mental Health field.

In 1971, Dr. Kathryn Barnard, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor of Family and Child Nursing at the University of Washington, initiated research that brought the ecology of early child development closer to the level of clinical practice used today by developing methods for assessing behaviors of children and their parents.

Dr. Barnard identified environmental factors that are critical to a child’s well-being and demonstrated the importance of parent-child interaction as a predictor of later cognitive and language development.

Following this research with the extensive knowledge and experience in this space gained in the decades since, the team at the Parent-Child Relationship Programs at the Barnard Center was looking to help better educate and provide actionable items for the agencies and partners that support their work.

For years, the organization has successfully produced video and PDF content through DVDs to be shown to clients and new mothers in need.

But this has since become an outdated model of delivery. Many homes no longer provide DVD players. This method also doesn’t support swift updates to content, and it can easily be lost. Understanding the challenges of this outdated technology, the team at Parent-Child Relationship Programs had an idea: make it mobile.

Chop Dawg created an application for mobile and tablet devices that lets audiences watch content, cast to compatible devices, and open PDF content. Partner with us to help out with your app, too!

It’s crucial that all in-app content also be available offline to its users. Users can download content directly to a mobile device for offline access. Chop Dawg also built Parent-Child Relationship Programs the necessary infrastructure to effectively manage and operate their new mobile presence. We built a custom administrator backend to quickly manage the organization, new content, tweaks to existing content, and more for their partners. This same tool is also used to track the financial and usage performance of the applications on user devices. The application is paired with a basic web application to allow agencies to quickly set up and manage their subscriptions while allowing Parent-Child Relationship Programs to use a merchant such as Stripe.