September 26, 2002
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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.
October 1, 2001
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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.
March 31, 2007
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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.
October 6, 2009
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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.
January 28, 2002
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Program Result
This project was the New Jersey implementation of a multi-state effort to replicate the Healthy Families model program, developed in 1985 in Hawaii.
December 1, 2004
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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.
August 1, 2001
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Program Result
Starting in January 1994, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine conducted a three-year evaluation of Hawaii's Healthy Start Program.
August 28, 2008
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Program Result
Southcentral Foundation's Family Wellness Warriors Initiative employed four different training programs to raise awareness and combat domestic violence, abuse and neglect among Alaska Natives.
January 1, 2010
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Journal Article
The Hawaii Healthy Start home visitation program sends paraprofessionals into the homes of children at risk of abuse to teach families about child development, parenting and problem-solving strategies and offer emotional support to new parents during the first three years of their child's life.
October 5, 2009
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Program Result
Drug dealers selling crystal methamphetamine, known as ice, used to be a common site at Kahekili Terrace, a low-income housing project on the Hawaiian island of Maui.