Sentences with phrase «model family programs»

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His broad background in operations, program management, cost account management, and customer support allow him to help mold PeachCap's Family Office Model and the unique experience our clients have with us.

The underlying assumption behind all the models in this chapter is that a congregation has an exciting possibility and responsibility to create a comprehensive marriage and family nurture program, beginning with remote preparation for marriage and extending through all the changing seasons of the life cycle of a family.

Our model is designed to allow our students and their families to customize a blend of the training programs we offer to best address their needs and evolve / adapt with them as those needs change.

The classes, through the local Adult School, grew and blossomed to a program that, 26 years later, has served over thousands of families and is an award winning program and model for supporting families.

In support of this commitment to children, the CRC has established a set of social goals based on program utilization of the Both Parents Approach model to help highly conflicted parents involved in marital discourse, custody disputes, parental alienation, and relational inexperience better cooperate and collaborate in the best interests of their children following break - up of the family.

She became certified in a variety of Hanen programs offering trainings to parents and professionals looking to embrace a family service delivery model.

Aiming to model the Finland Baby Box program, New Jersey recently became the first state to distribute a free Baby Box, a sturdy, safe box to sleep in that is filled with newborn essentials, to all new families.

Evidence - Based Model Crosswalk to Benchmarks: Model Alignment With Benchmark (PDF - 641 KB) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services & Health Resources and Services Administration (2011) Describes the Affordable Care Act Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV), and how the act responds, through evidence - based home visiting programs, to diverse needs of children and families in at - risk communities through collaboration at the Federal, State, and community levels.

Whileparticipation inseveral home visiting programs is effective at improving children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes (e.g., Early Head Start, The Nurse Family Partnership and The Infant Health and Developmental program), few home visiting programs have been able to significantly improve pregnancy outcomes and reductions in child maltreatment have been found for some models, but not for others.

With regard to home visit content, home visiting programs tend to be more effective when services are comprehensive in focus, implement the program model with rigour, and when they target families» multiple needs.

The nine national models that met the HHS evidence requirements as of October 2011 include Child FIRST, Early Head Start — Home Visiting (EHS — HV), Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers (EIP), Family Check - Up, Healthy Families America (HFA), Healthy Steps, Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP), and Parents as Teachers (PAT).

Studies of the Nurse Family Partnership model followed children to 6 years and found significant program effects on language and cognitive functioning as well as fewer behaviour problems in a randomized controlled trial study.24 In addition, more recent evaluations of Healthy Families America have shown small, but favourable effects on young children's development.25, 26

The effectiveness study will also include an implementation analysis that will examine how the program models operate in their local and state contexts and describe the families who participate; and an economic analysis that will examine the financial costs of operating the programs.

The infrastructure would ensure that programs are high quality, true to their intended model, and linked to other critical early childhood systems, thereby creating a seamless and holistic network of support for at risk families.

The Nurse Family Partnership model showed a significantly better detection rate of language delays, 10 while one study of the Hawaii Healthy Start Program did not show evidence of preventing language delays or improving early identification.27

Those models include: Child FIRST, Early Head Start - Home Visiting, Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers (EIP), Early Start (New Zealand), Family Check - Up, Healthy Families America (HFA), Healthy Steps, Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), Oklahoma's Community - Based Family Resource and Support (CBFRS) Program, Parents as Teachers (PAT), Play and Learning Strategies (PALS) Infant6, and SafeCare Augmented.

While the growth of the approved program models will lead to more parents receiving this critical support during their child's early years, many families will still not have access to high - quality research - based programs.

In other words, even when home visitation programs succeed in their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiProgram for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiprogram effectiveness.

This evidence - based mother -, baby -, and family - friendly model focuses on prevention and wellness as the alternatives to high - cost screening, diagnosis, and treatment programs.

Five of the original model developers and group leaders — Leila Beckwith, Ph.D., and Dane Fitzmorris M.A. from UCLA and Lynne Katz, Ed.D., Rosalie Miller, M.S.Ed., and Awilda Gonzalez from UM — continue to partner with CDC in implementing the Legacy program and sharing program resources with community - based agencies for use with families in their area.

The program model is relationship - based and family - centered, promoting the idea that infants and their families are collaborators in developing an individualized program of support to maximize physical, mental, and emotional growth; health and other positive outcomes for infants and children from the well — baby to the special needs infant.

The Initiative is modeled after President Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative for young men and the city's Young Men's Initiative — and will be funded with $ 20 million in City Council and private philanthropic funds to pursue recommendations like hiring more guidance counselors in school, expanding the Nurse - Family Partnership program, and requiring city agencies to have «gender equity liaisons.»

Yes, I know the type of communication I'm talking about here is hard to imagine in full, but try to picture a family, perhaps in the late 21st century, visiting a virtual world like Second Life but much more vivid and immersible, and improvising models of themselves, modulated by spontaneously invented behavior programs, thereby deepening and transforming family bonds.

The Child - Parent Center Preschool to Third Grade program (CPC P - 3) is a collaborative school reform model designed to improve school achievement and family engagement from ages three to nine.

The probability of these virtual inmates» friends and family also going to jail was programmed into the model using previously published statistics.

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The overarching goal of this effort is to leverage new knowledge in the service of generating and testing innovative intervention models to produce substantially greater impacts on learning, behavior, and health outcomes than existing programs and policies, particularly for the most disadvantaged children and families.

Johnson says that beyond the specific AWOL programs that reinforce positive behavior and allow young people to express their creativity, the Jordans also provide a model of marital stability that many of the young people don't see in their immediate families or in their neighborhoods.

(2) A program must use information from paragraph (b)(1) of this section with informal teacher observations and additional information from family and staff, as relevant, to determine a child's strengths and needs, adjust strategies to better support individualized learning and improve classroom practices in center - based and family child care settings and improve home visit strategies in home based models.

It also includes innovative new models like Louisiana's «course choice» program, which allows students to take a portion of their school funding to go to outside providers for individual classes and Arizona's Education Savings Account program, which creates a Health Savings Account - like restricted use fund that families can use to pay for education.

The Roots and Wings model consists of elementary school age learning programs, reading and language arts instruction, tutoring, family support and integrated services, social studies and science instruction, and mathematics instruction.

NCFL's model presents an innovative way to support Head Start programs in meeting outcomes aligned with the Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework.

According to Kate Baker, the president of NEO, the reimbursement model has been «a significant burden» for many families.25 Since NEO prioritizes based on need, 98 percent of homeschooling scholarship families in the first year of the program had a total household income that would have qualified them for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program (185 percent of the federal poverty line, or $ 43,568 for a family of four in 2012 - 13), including 77 percent who would have qualified for a «free lunch» (130 percent of the federal poverty line, or $ 30,615 for a family of four in 2012 - 13).26

Locate the program inside the former 35th Street Elementary School, which is well suited to serve our youngest learners; it would share a separate and distinct space in the same building with Assata, an MPS partnership school; this is a model that has been used in the past and allows for improved achievement and better student and family engagement and support at both schools.

In making the decision to move to a full - day kindergarten and to design effective programs, a number of educators, policymakers, parents, and family members have contacted the Ask A REL Reference Desk seeking both research on the impact of full - day kindergarten and information about the program models used in other states and schools.

This program will fund model practices that improve academic success, strengthen families, and build healthier communities.

«The first half of his tenure was marked by a series of reforms: closing more than one dozen failing schools and programs and creating several others that have thrived; decentralizing the system by cutting the headquarters staff by more than half; giving principals power over budget decisions; creating choice for city families, and competition among middle and high schools; and signing a landmark pay - for - performance teachers» union contract that was hailed as a model in the nation.

NCASE supports school - age care and summer learning programs by working with state - wide school - age networks and other community partners to expand learning opportunities for school - age children; identifying and promoting family engagement approaches; and coordinating with early childhood and school - age stakeholder groups and other federal programs to maximize effective service delivery models and minimize duplication of efforts.

Broadly, these include restructuring programs so that all children have regular, nutritious meals; providing models for schools and districts that continue to use alternate meal policies; and avoiding punitive scenarios when families can't pay.

Monetary contributions made by families and Charter friends who support Montessori as an alternative education model ensures that our program will be offered, regardless of State and local budget shortfalls.

Combining one or more Breakfast After the Bell models with a Universal Free School Breakfast Program, in which all students receive breakfast at no charge regardless of their family income, increases participation even more.

The success of the program motivated Council Grove high school students to expand «Power Up Clubs» into summer healthy - activity day camps, and the program has become a model for rural afterschool programs across the state (Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network, n.d.).

It presents research, program, and policy information that can inform state initiatives to strengthen parent engagement during preschool through grade 3, such as promising models designed for culturally diverse, low - income families, examples of state parent engagement initiatives, a summary of research, and recommendations.

«Over 50 years of research links the various roles that families play in a child's education — as supporters of learning, encouragers of grit and determination, models of lifelong learning, and advocates of proper programming and placements for their child — with indicators of student achievement including student grades, achievement test scores, lower drop - out rates, students» sense of personal competence and efficacy for learning, and students» beliefs about the importance of education.»

The CSESA comprehensive model includes five components --(1) Foundations; (2) Academics; (3) Social Competence; (4) Transition and Families; and (5) Personal Responsibility, Independence, and Self - Management (PRISM)-- that focus on developing, adapting, and studying a comprehensive school - and community - based education program for high school students with ASD.

The all - school kickoff meeting of the program — held in Spanish — introduced a model of family partnership that extended beyond traditional parental involvement practices.

To proponents, the rapid expansion of Indiana's program is a model for giving more families better educational options.

Madeleine Case, as director of a family - school partnership district initiative, drew from models of school - based and parent leadership teams to develop a pilot program called Families and Educators Together (FET).

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The appearance of MINI in the heart of Manhattan offers visitors the opportunity to familiarise themselves not only with the two new models but also with the entire model family as well as new offers in the program of optional equipment and accessories.