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Supporting Families After Welfare Reform: Access to Medicaid, SCHIP and Food Stamps

National Program

Program to help states and large counties solve problems in eligibility processes that make it difficult for low-income families to access and retain Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or Food Stamps.

A U.S. Needle Exchange Program Dramatically Reduces HIV Transmission

March 1, 2002 | Program Result

The Yale University School of Organization and Management and the City of New Haven, Department of Health, worked to expand and evaluate a model needle exchange program in New Haven.

Getting Social Services Where You Live

August 1, 2002 | Program Result

The Community Builders, a nonprofit real estate services organization in Boston, replicated a low-income housing model in Worcester, Mass.

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.

Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education

November 19, 2012 | Program Result

RWJF's Dental Pipeline Program helped dental schools increase access to dental care for underserved populations through expanded community-based education and recruitment of underrepresented minority and low-income students.

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Child FIRST

January 1, 2011 | Journal Article

Child FIRST (Child and Family Interagency, Resource, Support, and Training) is a family intervention that fosters sensitive, responsive, and secure parent-child relationships. This article presents results from the first randomized controlled trial of Child FIRST. The trial recruited impoverished families from inner city Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The Immigrants and Refugees New Arrivals Advocacy Project

September 9, 2011 | Program Result

The Center for Children's Advocacy in Hartford, Conn., operated a medical-legal advocacy project to improve the health of new immigrant and refugee children.

Fresh Ideas: Improving the Health of Immigrant and Refugee Communities

June 27, 2011 | Program Result

Fresh Ideas was a targeted solicitation for proposals that aimed to give immigrants and refugees the tools and support they need to improve and maintain their own health.

The Diabetes Initiative

April 19, 2010 | Program Result

The Diabetes Initiative and its individual projects have contributed to the expansion of diabetes self-management at the state level and nationwide.

Head Start Programs Identify and Provide Extra Support to Families at Risk

October 5, 2009 | Program Result

Expanding the capacity of Head Start agencies to identify and assist families in need was a key ingredient of Free To Grow. That was especially so in New Britain, Conn., and Orange, Calif.

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