A Brief Overview of the Home-Visiting Field
November 13, 2009 | Program Results Report
While prominent in the field, Nurse-Family Partnership is one of many home-visiting programs aimed at helping families and young children.
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A Case-Control Study to Evaluate Utah's Shaken Baby Prevention Program
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article reports on a study of the effectiveness of two shaken baby syndrome educational videos, shown from 2001-2003 in hospitals throughout Utah.
Address Toxic Stress in Vulnerable Children and Families for a Healthier America
June 21, 2013 | Culture of Health Post
Low incomes, subpar education, and often race and ethnicity, combine to create a conspiracy against health.
Adverse Childhood Experiences
May 10, 2013 | Feature/Infographic
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is working to increase awareness and understanding of the impact of ACEs and the need to develop effective innovative interventions.
‘Adverse Childhood Experiences’: Early Life Events that Can Damage our Adult Health
September 30, 2013 | New Public Health Post
RWJF.org recently pulled together a collection of resources on “adverse childhood experiences”—how common they are and what they can mean for the adults those traumatized children become.
At Least 10,000 Tune in to Watch Videoconference on Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse
October 1, 2001 | Program Results Report
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.
Boston PBS Affiliate Produces "Failure to Protect" - Frontline Documentaries about the U.S. Child Welfare System
December 15, 2004 | Program Results Report
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.
Cell Phones Give Researchers a Window on Young Mothers' Parenting Practices - Leads to NIH Funded Study
October 6, 2009 | Program Results Report
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.
Child Abuse Pediatrics Chooses You
January 25, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Brendan T. Campbell, MD, MPH is an assistant professor of surgery and pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and an alumnus of the RWJF Clinical Scholars program.
Child First
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Child First, an innovative home-visit program in Connecticut, is designed to stabilize families, connect them with social services, and help develop and support nurturing, responsive caregivers.