A Brief Overview of the Home-Visiting Field
November 13, 2009 | Program Result
While prominent in the field, Nurse-Family Partnership is one of many home-visiting programs aimed at helping families and young children.
Child Abuse and Neglect
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Project Reaches Out to At-Risk Families, Teens, in Rural Washington State
June 15, 2005 | Program Result
Parent Trust for Washington Children established a Rural Family Group Support Network to expand its presence beyond urban settings, and into Washington's rural counties to reduce families' social isolation that can lead to child abuse and neglect.
Harvard Law Professor Faults Strategies for Protecting Abused Kids
September 26, 2002 | Program Result
Starting in 1997, Elizabeth Bartholet a law professor at Harvard Law School, researched and wrote Nobody's Children: Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative.
At Least 10,000 Tune in to Watch Videoconference on Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse
October 1, 2001 | Program Result
The University of Maryland Foundation produced a nationwide videoconference in 1999 to help professionals working with children to recognize and report child abuse and neglect.
Hawaiian Health Foundation Launches Program to Diagnose and Treat Child Abuse Victims Entering Foster Care
March 31, 2007 | Program Result
In 2002, the Kapi'olani Health Foundation created the Child At-Risk Evaluation (CARE) program, a pediatric specialty clinic specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of child abuse.
No, It's Not Just a Bruise: Physicians Examine Abuse
March 1, 2001 | Program Result
From 1996 through 1998, the Academy of Medicine of New Jersey, Princeton Junction, N.J., gave a series of seminars on domestic violence, child abuse and elder abuse for community-based physicians throughout New Jersey.
Conference Attendees and Journal Readers Learn Ways Children Overcome Adversities
January 1, 2008 | Program Result
The Society for Life History Research in Psychopathology convened a conference to examine factors that promote resilience in children who have been abused, neglected or experienced other adversity, and go on to lead full and productive lives.
Cell Phones Give Researchers a Window on Young Mothers' Parenting Practices - Leads to NIH Funded Study
October 6, 2009 | Program Result
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame conducted two pilot studies on the use of cell phones to gather detailed information about predictors of early child neglect among adolescent and adult mothers.
Keeping Families Together: A Pilot Program and Its Evaluation
March 4, 2011 | Program Result
The Corporation for Supportive Housing's New York City office piloted Keeping Families Together, a program that provided permanent supportive housing for the city's most vulnerable families, and subcontracted an evaluation of the program.
Boston PBS Affiliate Produces "Failure to Protect"
December 1, 2004 | Program Result
In January and February 2003, WGBH Educational Foundation aired a three-part Frontline series called "Failure to Protect," which addresses problems with the child welfare system in America.