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Can a parent-centered coaching program aimed at promoting economic self-sufficiency in families living in poverty improve early child developmental outcomes? In this issue of Pediatrics, Homer et al 1 studied whether Mobility Mentoring (MM), an economic coaching program, improved the developmental outcomes of children 3 to 4 years old enrolled in an income-qualified multisite prekindergarten program in Washington State. MM paired parents with coaches to identify goals in 6 key domains hypothesized to lead to economic self-sufficiency: family and housing stability, well-being, financial management (debts and savings), education and training, employment, and career management. Homer et al used a quasi-experimental pre-post design to assess developmental outcomes of all children in sites assigned to receive MM to all children in unassigned sites. No differences were found between sites. The study …