"Improving Access to Children's Mental Health Care: Lessons from a Study of Eleven States" - a new report from the Center for Health and Health Care Services - exposes barriers and opportunities for children's mental health under expansion of the Affordable Care Act.
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March 25, 2013 | Program Result
The UCLA Family Commons is a new model of preventive mental health care that provides nonstigmatized, cost-effective education and coaching to help families with children from infancy to adolescence address common childhood issues.
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Family-based interventions are programs that target parents and children in creating a healthy lifestyle, which is difficult as families are confronted with an obesogenic food environment and have sedentary behaviors.
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Obesity disproportionately impacts inner-city minority children. The Family Assessment of Initial Risk (FLAIR) intervention was tested in three primary care centers in the Bronx, New York. This article presents parents' focus group responses evaluating FLAIR.
March 1, 2011 | Story
Research by RWJF Health & Society Scholar shows that fearful children are more vulnerable to the negative effects of growing up in "rough neighborhoods."
January 1, 2003 | Program Result
In 1999-2001, the University of Utah Department of Psychology conducted the third round of data collection and analysis for the Young Parenthood Project.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result
Judith S. Palfrey, M.D., and a research team at Children's Hospital in Boston conducted a follow-up study of the long-term impact of the Brookline [Mass.] Early Education Project.
February 5, 2013 | Program Result
Child FIRST is a home-based early childhood intervention that works with the most vulnerable very young children and their families to reduce serious emotional disturbance, developmental and learning problems, and abuse and neglect.
March 20, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Centers for Disese Control and Prevention recommends pertussis vaccination for adults in close contact with newborns. The immunization of household contacts provides early protection for infants, who do not gain immunity to pertussis until they ...
May 3, 2011 | Program Result
From 2005 to 2010, the Washington-based Rebecca Project for Human Rights expanded its efforts to advocate on behalf of low-income families suffering from the impact of a parent's substance abuse.
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.