Putting Children FIRST
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.
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Quotable Quotes about Nursing, June 2012
June 29, 2012 | Story
New and notable quotes on home visitation programs, Action Coalitions in Georgia and Kansas, nurse practitioners, and more.
Improving on Success: Why the Nurse-Family Partnership Model is a Work in Progress
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 ...
Doulas Try to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes for Addicted Women
January 29, 2002 | Program Result
The Northern New Jersey Maternal/Child Health Consortium collaborated with five northern New Jersey agencies to design and develop a project to improve pregnancy outcomes for drug-addicted women in Paterson, N.J.
Child FIRST Develops an Evidence-Based Early Childhood Intervention
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.
Edge Runner Digs Deeper Into Work on Behalf of Low-Income Mothers
February 25, 2010 | Story
Harriet Kitzman is building on decades of research exploring the impact of a promising program that pairs registered nurses with low-income first-time mothers.
A Brief Overview of the Home-Visiting Field
November 13, 2009 | Program Result
While prominent in the field, Nurse-Family Partnership is one of many home-visiting programs aimed at helping families and young children.
Pebbles in a Pond
May 3, 2012 | Story
The timely intervention of a specially trained nurse held the potential to change the lives of poor young mothers and their babies for the better ... not just in the near term, but for many years to come.
Sharing Nursing's Knowledge: What's in the February Issue
March 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Are you signed up to receive Sharing Nursing’s Knowledge? The monthly Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) e-newsletter will keep you up to date on the latest nursing news, research and trends. Here are descriptions of some of the stories in the Fe ...
Care-Giving Program Illuminates Volunteers' Motivations
December 1, 1997 | Program Result
United Seniors Health Cooperative established the Cooperative Care Network (CCN), a computerized service credit bank in the greater Washington area, to increase the availability of services for the elderly and the disabled living in their homes.