Family Support Services Program
December 11, 2007 | Program Result
Family support programs emphasize strengthening individual and family functioning by empowering families to manage life's events effectively.
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Connecticut Uses RWJF's Family Support Services Program Funding to Expand Parenting Education Agenda
December 7, 2005 | Program Result
Family Support Connecticut worked to expand the infrastructure of Connecticut's family support program and fund parent leadership training through grants to communities.
Service Credit Banking in Managed Care
October 25, 2007 | Program Result
Service credit banking programs seek to help elderly people remain healthy, independent, and in their homes by enlisting volunteer caregivers to provide supportive services.
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.
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.
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.
Study Looks at Seniors Who Opt Out of Connecticut Medicaid Home and Community-Based Care Program
September 1, 2006 | Program Result
The Urban Institute studied how low-income, older adults in Connecticut who are disabled were managing their long-term care needs.
Free to Grow Special Report: New Britain, Connecticut
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.
Connecticut Self-Determination for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Pilot Takes Off with "Support Broker" for Mentally Retarded
January 31, 2004 | Program Result
The Connecticut Department of Mental Retardation implemented a pilot project to make changes to its service delivery system to enable persons with mental retardation to choose the services they receive and the setting in which they wish to live.
Service Credit Banking
January 1, 2002 | Book
Susan Dentzer explores whether service credit banking--as demonstrated in the projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation--was a good idea that was badly timed or implemented, or whether it was simply a flawed idea.