Community Health Leader Safeguards Children's Sight
October 22, 2009 | Story
Alabama program brings preventive vision care to economically-disadvantaged toddlers.
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A Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Effectiveness of Community-Based Case Management in Insuring Uninsured Latino Children
December 1, 2005 | Journal Article
Latino children run the highest risk of being uninsured in the United States; 21 percent lack health insurance. The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was founded in 1997 to provide coverage to uninsured children. Past studies have es ...
Mississippi Reduces Institutional Out-of-Community Placements for Youth with Mental Health Disorders
June 1, 2000 | Program Result
The State of Mississippi Department of Mental Health, Jackson, Miss., conducted a two-pilot project known as Mississippi Connections that focused on providing an integrated system of services in the home and community.
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.
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Asthma Self-Management Support Comparing Clinic-Based Nurses and In-Home Community Health Workers
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Adding home health visits by community health workers for families already receiving in-clinic support from asthma nurses, gives their asthmatic children 24 more symptom-free days per year on average and also modestly improves quality of life for caregivers.
Effect of a Clinic-Based Referral System to Head Start: A Randomized Controlled Trial
August 25, 2004 | Journal Article
A Randomized Controlled Trial
Parent Use of Touchscreen Computer Kiosks for Child Health Promotion in Community Settings
March 1, 2007 | Journal Article
The kiosks provided child health-promoting information via 14 modules.
A National Center Supports Growing Number of Medical-Legal Partnerships to Advocate for the Health of Children
March 21, 2009 | Program Result
Since 1993, the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children at Boston Medical Center has provided pediatric patients and their families with legal assistance on matters that can affect a child's health.
Mental Health Services Program for Youth Replication
June 1, 2000 | Program Result
The Mental Health Services Program for Youth Replication was a national program set up by RWJF to follow-up on the results of the Mental Health Services Program for Youth that ran from 1988 to 1998.
Lone Star State Doesn't Go it Alone in Providing Youth Mental Health Services
June 1, 2000 | Program Result
Between March 1996 and December 1997 the State of Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, set up the Texas Integrated Funding Initiative to develop local organized service-delivery systems for children with multiple needs that are family based, accountable for outcomes, and that maximize all funding sources.