You are now viewing 1 - 8 of 8 results
October 1, 2012 | Book
This chapter of To Improve Health and Health Care, Volume XV, focuses on Child FIRST, a family-based intervention to prevent mental health problems in high-risk mothers and young children.
July 12, 2012 | Story
Walter Zelman, director of the public health department at California State University, Los Angeles, tapped into Commission to Build a Healthier America research to inform students as they assessed local health concerns.
September 5, 2012 | Video
Child FIRST is 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.
September 15, 2010 | Toolkit
This presentation (Learning Session #4) was from the Child FIRST (Child and Family Interagency Resource, Support, and Training) program which took place on September 15-16, 2012. Child FIRST works with the most vulnerable young children (prenatal th ...
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.
June 1, 2000 | Program Result
From 1995 to 1997, staff at the Citizen's TennCare Review Commission undertook a number of analyses to examine the effectiveness of the TennCare program, which in 1994 had replaced Tennessee's Medicaid program.
August 26, 2008 | Program Result
RWJF has provided 12 grants totaling $26.8 million to support development of David L. Olds' home-visiting model and its national replication as the Nurse-Family Partnership.
May 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
David Olds, PhD, is founder of the Nurse-Family Partnership, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 40th Anniversary Force Multiplier that provides maternal and early childhood health programs for at-risk, first-time mothers. He is a professor of pediatri ...