Sentences with phrase «program quality intervention»

In particular, funders have strongly encouraged after - school programs to adopt Youth Program Quality Intervention (YPQI), a data - driven continuous improvement model.

Currently 75 afterschool program sites also participate in the Youth Program Quality Intervention (YPQI) study from the national Center for Youth Program Quality.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Evidence is emerging that the impact of high quality multidimensional home visiting programs lasts long after the intervention ends.

In instances when parents and children have needs beyond those addressed by the home visiting program in which they are enrolled, they should be linked to additional resources available in their community, such as high - quality child care programs and comprehensive early childhood programs such as Early Head Start, early intervention programs, health assistance programs, and mental health services.

The Youth Services Division is dedicated to providing quality services to youth and families of Erie County along a broad spectrum, including an array of positive youth development programs; screening, assessment, appropriate diversion, accountability, monitoring and intervention services to youth involved in Family Court matters.

The study, «Development and testing of the Dementia Symptom Management at Home (DSM - H) Program: An interprofessional home healthcare intervention to improve the quality of life for persons with dementia and their caregivers,» also sought to examine if the DSM - H is a feasible resource to be used by interprofessional HHC teams.

«The findings of both studies support a growing body of research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both studies.

«Cardiac arrest survival rates are unacceptably low,» said Robert Graham, chair of the study committee and director of the national program office for Aligning Forces for Quality at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. «Although breakthroughs in understanding and treating cardiac arrest are promising, the ability to deliver timely interventions and high - quality care is inconsQuality at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. «Although breakthroughs in understanding and treating cardiac arrest are promising, the ability to deliver timely interventions and high - quality care is inconsquality care is inconsistent.

Researchers at Jefferson's Maternal Addiction Treatment Education & Research (MATER) program found significant improvement in the quality of parenting among mothers who participated in a trauma - informed, mindfulness - based parenting intervention while also in medication - assisted treatment for opioid use disorder.

However, registration of cardiac arrests was prospective and uniform, following the standardized Utstein style for reporting out - of - hospital cardiac arrest and revised for data quality assurance by the RACE - CARS team.18 Our results support efforts of other communities seeking to improve bystander and first - responder intervention, since they come from a quality - improvement database of a substantial portion of the state of North Carolina, with stable reporting over a 4 - year period during a broad implementation program that used a standardized protocol, as recommended by the American Heart Association.13, 20,40

To establish and conduct the highest quality collaborative translational and clinical research program investigating risk assessment, risk reduction interventions, cancer risk and early detection markers, and cancer screening

the sleep environment using audio pillows such as the Dreampad Pillow ® and helping people to internally regulate and reduce stress through sleep meditation programs such as iRest ® are two interventions that have been shown to positively affect sleep quality.

These include reducing class size; providing quality afterschool and Saturday programs; summer trimesters for our secondary students; ways of supporting intervention at a much earlier grade level; and pre-kindergarten.

School choice interventions have not yet fully considered factors other than a school's academic quality that may lead to success in a P - 12 context (such as particular pedagogical approaches, special programming, or extracurricular offerings) and how best to present those school characteristics to families.

Quality Reading intervention programs have become a focus for schools throughout Tennessee.

According to educators at the Critical Issues in Urban Special Education institute, recent research shows that early intervention and high - quality preschool programs can improve special education students» outcomes later on.

Our CPR team is focused on compliance with law and regulation as central to the positive potential in these programs to support high - quality interventions and lead to better student outcomes.

For instance, I directed a national Head Start Quality Research Center; created a program, Dialogic Reading (which is a widely used and effective intervention for enhancing the language development and book knowledge of young children from low - income families); and authored an assessment tool, the Get Ready to Read Screen, that has become a staple of early intervention program evaluation.

Despite research that suggests high - quality programs both help students succeed in the long run and save taxpayers money that would be spent on interventions later, Utah does not have a comprehensive state - run early education preschool program.

The Collaborative Intervention Program assists students and families to access quality mental health care in the community.

The state's emphasis has been on accountability and assessment rather than on intervention that would provide quality education programs.

Ratings are provided for Study Quality, including ratings from our TRC members on the technical rigor of the study design; Study Results, which provides information about the findings of the studies; Program Information, or information about the intervention including the target behavior it addresses and implementation requirements; and Additional Research, which provides information about other studies and reviews that have been conducted on the intervention.

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During her tenure, Vielka was charged with seeing that every school was equipped with necessary personnel and intervention programming to ensure compliance and instruction quality in accordance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act.

Since 1976, Catapult Learning has been providing supplemental instructional services to schools across the country, bringing highly - trained teachers and high - quality curriculum into schools to help with specialized programs such as Title I intervention and summer school.

That's great, but what leads us to believe that we can take small, high - quality pre-K programs and blow them out into a statewide or nationwide intervention?

The program was based on Response to Intervention (RTI) strategies, including high quality instructional design and delivery for all students aimed at reducing the number of students needing iIntervention (RTI) strategies, including high quality instructional design and delivery for all students aimed at reducing the number of students needing interventionintervention.

Intervention for academically struggling students and enrichment programs are also a part of the high - quality experience Tubman provides for every child.

Increase investment in high - quality early childhood education programs and interventions specifically serving grades K - 3 in low - performing schools and districts.

To support attendance, schools must first establish a positive and engaging school climate.87 To reduce chronic absenteeism, however, schools may need to implement more rigorous interventions.88 For example, schools can increase parent engagement to educate guardians on the risks associated with accumulated absences, which they often underestimate.89 Schools may also need to address systemic barriers to attendance by providing safe transportation or high - quality afterschool programs.90

Early Learning as a School Improvement Intervention During this session at the Title I Conference, presenters Libby Doggett (USED), Lenay Dunn and Carlas McCauley (Center on School Turnaround), and Jana Martella (CEELO) provide an overview on how early learning strategies can advance achievement as a school improvement intervention, along with key research on the impact of high quality early learniIntervention During this session at the Title I Conference, presenters Libby Doggett (USED), Lenay Dunn and Carlas McCauley (Center on School Turnaround), and Jana Martella (CEELO) provide an overview on how early learning strategies can advance achievement as a school improvement intervention, along with key research on the impact of high quality early learniintervention, along with key research on the impact of high quality early learning programs.

Finally, the family - intervention components of these programs make it impossible to compare them to the high - quality programs envisaged by the Obama proposal.

School Improvement Grants 1003g and 1003a; school turnaround and transformation; effective leadership; effective instruction; using data to drive interventions; equitable and high quality programs for all learners; working in convergence at the SEA and the LEAs; sustainable practices; effective use of federal and state funds

As a result of these variations and trends, some champions of early - childhood intervention programs have argued that the Head Start program, in terms of staff and curriculum, is not a «high - quality» pre-school program.

Instead, as argued above, it is anticipated that the differentiated attention to the different disability areas — and the ESEA / ESSA «relief» of not having to track and serve an impossibly complex and varied students with disabilities subgroup — should improve the quality and outcomes of services, supports, programs, and interventions to and with these students... making everyone «a winner.»

Still, the suggestion is that the Promise intervention that occurs at ages 18 -28 (students have 10 years to use the Promise) may have benefits that are comparable to very high - quality early childhood programs

Animal assisted activities (AAA), on the other hand, are defined as pet - centered visitation programs to enhance life quality or support educational programs in a variety of environments such as hospitals, special needs day cares, retirement homes, or reading intervention programs.

COMMUNITY HEALTH LINK, Worcester, MA Mental Health Counselor 2013 — Present • Coordinate and establish therapeutic intervention plans for clients • Provide behavioral health issues consultation • Identify groups and individuals at risk and provide guidance and counseling accordingly • Launch performance improvement programs for mental health awareness in the community • Carry out the assessments, obtain and interpret information to identify age and community - specific client needs and cater for the same • Provide group and couples counseling for enhancing the quality of life and addressing behavioral problems

• Track record of providing direct care and shift coverage for residential programs, serving residents with both physical and mental illnesses • Proficient in attending to the personal needs of residents in a manner that maximizes their dignity and quality of life • Special talent for managing crises interventions and assisting in rehabilitating residents

Her interests also include advancing the quality of children's caregiving environments, methods for monitoring the progress of young children, and strategies for promoting family engagement in early intervention programs.

New Mexico's tiered quality rating and improvement system — FOCUS on Young Child's Learning — supports early learning providers and allows parents to identify high quality early learning programs including Child Care, PreK, Early Head Start and Head Start, Early Intervention, Home Visiting, Title I and Preschool Special Education.

In a world - first, nib foundation's funding support will enable Smiling Mind to conduct the largest evaluation of an app - based mindfulness intervention program - to measure the impact of their program on increasing the protective factors associated with mental health and wellbeing such as social connection, sleep quality, and developing personal coping skills and resilience to deal with the stresses of everyday life.

Intervention and Program Catalog Quality Improvement Center for Adoption & Guardianship Support and Preservation (2017) Identifies evidence - based or evidence - informed programs and practices that can be used to address the needs of children in foster care both pre - and postpermanency.

The consolidated framework for implementation research articulates the importance of the following elements: evidence - based intervention, the outer setting, the inner setting, the individuals involved, and the process.11, 12 Attending to these elements of implementation and in collaboration with Elev8 Baltimore, we used the evidence - based MBSR program with two Elev8 Baltimore schools in which we could ensure high potential for student benefit, site - specific awareness of school culture, school administration buy - in, high - quality program instruction, high - quality program implementation staff, community partnership, infrastructure to support ongoing collaboration with school and Elev8 Baltimore, and structure and process for evaluation of implementation and program effect.

Research shows that the quality of human relationships in schools and youth service programs may be more influential than the specific techniques or interventions employed.

The 1 RCT on the UCLA / Lovaas — based treatment that met inclusion criteria was considered to be of fair quality.3 This study, the first attempted replication of Lovaas» manualized intervention to use random assignment, a standardized assessment battery, and explicit accounting of intervention hours, compared a clinic - based method to a parent program.

In the Infant Health and Development program, mothers in the intervention group engaged in higher - quality interactions with their infants, though the effects were small.82 In New Zealand, Early Start documented higher positive parenting attitudes, a greater prevalence of nonpunitive attitudes, and more favorable overall parenting scores for families in the treatment group.83 In Queensland, mothers in the intervention group were rated as significantly higher in emotional and verbal responsivity.84

For example, the Queensland study documented higher - quality home environments for families in the intervention.75 Likewise, positive effects were observed on measures of the home environment in Alaska.76 Among multi-component programs, both Early Head Start77 and the Infant Health and Development Program78 reported higher - quality home environments in the intervention groups, though effect sizes tended to be small.

Studies are needed on how to sustain fidelity to treatment models, how to strengthen the quality of the program as delivered, how to maintain integrity as the intervention is implemented in local sites, how to judge when a modification will affect a program, and how much change is legitimate before it interferes with the integrity of the program.