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.
Child Abuse and Neglect
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Conference Attendees and Journal Readers Learn Ways Children Overcome Adversities
January 31, 2008 | Program Results Report
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.
Childhood Trauma
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Topic page on RWJF's investment in programs focused on childhood trauma.
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.
The MOM Program Shown to Have Positive Effects on Children at Age 5
September 29, 2008 | Program Results Report
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.
Home Visits Boost Family "Wellness," But Do They Help Prevent Child Abuse?
August 1, 2001 | Program Results Report
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.
Residents Take Back the Streets at Kahekili Terrace
October 5, 2009 | Program Results Report
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, 2009 | Program Results Report
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 Results Report
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.