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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.

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.

The MOM Program Shown to Have Positive Effects on Children at Age 5

September 29, 2008 | Program Result

Starting in 2001, researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia conducted the MOM Program to determine whether providing mothers with support could improve their children's development and behavior.

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.

Home Visits Boost Family "Wellness," But Do They Help Prevent Child Abuse?

August 1, 2001 | Program Result

Starting in January 1994, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine conducted a three-year evaluation of Hawaii's Healthy Start Program.

Reducing Maternal Intimate Partner Violence After the Birth of a Child

January 1, 2010 | 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.

Residents Take Back the Streets at Kahekili Terrace

October 5, 2009 | 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.

Healthy Families Program Relies on Home Visitation to Help New Parents

January 28, 2002 | 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.

Free to Grow Special Report: St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

September 5, 2005 | Program Result

This report by the Free to Grow National Program Office at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University summarizes efforts to integrate Free to Grow into the St. Mary, La., Head Start program.

Circle of Health Program Designed to Address Risky Behaviors by Native American Youths in Phoenix

April 1, 2004 | Program Result

The American Indian Prevention Coalition undertook a planning process to develop a program aimed at preventing substance abuse, violence and other risky behaviors among Native American youth living in Phoenix.

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