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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.
September 5, 2005 | Program Result
This report by the Free to Grow National Program Office at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University outlines how Free to Grow was integrated into the local Head Start program.
September 5, 2005 | Program Result
This report by the Free to Grow National Program Office at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University shows how the Wausau, Wis., Head Start/Free to Grow initiative, one of 15 FTG demonstration sites, combated alcohol abuse and strengthened families.
September 5, 2005 | Program Result
This report by the Free to Grow National Program Office at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University summarizes efforts to integrate Free to Grow into the St. Mary, La., Head Start program.
December 7, 2005 | Program Result
The West Virginia Governor's Cabinet on Children and Families worked to develop a statewide family leadership project to increase parent engagement in policies and programs affecting children and families.
December 7, 2005 | Program Result
Michigan's Department of Community Health began working on its family support agenda for the state - strengthening individual and family functioning by empowering families to manage life's events effectively - in the early 1990s.
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.
February 17, 2012 | Program Result
In Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities, partnerships in 49 communities nationwide are changing local policies and revamping the physical environment to foster healthy living and prevent childhood obesity.
October 4, 2011 | Program Result
Beginning in 2002, the MTCT-Plus Initiative established family-based HIV care and treatment programs in sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand, linking HIV care and treatment of mothers to existing programs that prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.