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Pennsylvania Health Professionals Train Child Care Providers

June 1, 1998 | Program Result

The Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (PA AAP) created a public-private partnership known as the Early Childhood Education Linkage System (ECELS) in 1989.

Children's Futures: Improving Health and Development Outcomes for Children in Trenton, N.J.

National Program

To employ a comprehensive set of interventions to improve the health of children in Trenton, New Jersey.

Make Every Day a Healthy Day!: Sesame Workshop Distributes Nutrition and Physical Activity Kit to Child-Care Providers Serving Preschoool Children

August 11, 2010 | Program Result

The Sesame Workshop distributed 14,000 copies of the Healthy Habits for Life Child Care Resource Kit in English and Spanish to home-based child care providers to help them integrate nutrition and physical activity into their daily routines.

Shaniqua Ballard's Story

March 24, 2010 | Program Result

Shaniqua Ballard was living without much hope in a shelter for pregnant women, with little money and no health insurance, until she discovered the Developing Families Center, where she received obstetric and well-woman care, and enrolled her children in the child development program.

Tooling up for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Child-Care Centers

May 11, 2009 | Program Result

Researchers with the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation in Wisconsin evaluated use of a toolkit designed to help child-care centers prevent overweight among young children by encouraging healthy eating and physical activity.

Head Start/Anti-Substance Abuse Program Falters in New Jersey

October 1, 2003 | Program Result

Concerned Parents for Head Start in Paterson, N.J., developed Project Unconditional, a project designed to integrate family and community strengthening components into Head Start to reduce risks for substance abuse.

Helping Mothers and Children with a Families Center in Washington, D.C.

March 24, 2010 | Program Result

The Developing Families Center in Washington, D.C., provides health and social support services to young women and their families in the city's low-income, Black neighborhoods.

Children's Futures: Lessons From a Second-Generation Community Change Initiative

January 1, 2009 | Journal Article

Children's Futures, a 10-year RWJF initiative, developed a comprehensive, citywide program in Trenton, N.J. focusing on the critical time period of prenatal care to age three to ensure health and school readiness. This article explores the initiative's first five years, the available results and lessons learned.

Ties that Bind and Heal

February 1, 2005 | Program Result

From February 2003 through May 2004, researchers at Public/Private Ventures in Philadelphia analyzed how linking child care with health services could improve low-income and minority children's access to and quality of health care.

Children's Futures' First Five Years

August 1, 2008 | Evaluation

This evaluation measures the effect of Children's Futures in the lives of participating families in Trenton, N.J.

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