And $ 2 million will help expand the state's innovative work in home visiting, which supports increased school readiness and
decreased child abuse and neglect.
Not exact matches
We believe that supporting women to better themselves
and their families while their
children are young can
decrease the cycles of homelessness, poverty,
abuse,
and neglect.
A $ 1 increase would result in 9,700 (9.6 percent) fewer reported cases of
child neglect annually as well as a likely
decrease in cases of physical
abuse, said Lindsey Rose Bullinger of IU's School of Public
and Environmental Affairs.
The follow up study of the original Elmira, New York programme by Olds et al showed
decreased reports of
child abuse and neglect 15 years later among women visited by a nurse.
Scores of articles have long demonstrated a relationship between exposure to childhood adversity
and a range of negative outcomes throughout the life span.1 — 8 The disproportionate exposure of low - income
children to
abuse,
neglect,
and other adversities9, 10 has been implicated as an important contributor to health disparities.11, 12 Preventing
and mitigating the impact of ACEs is critical to
decreasing health disparities.
Goals are to
decrease abuse and neglect, reduce unintentional injuries, strengthen the parent -
child relationship, improve utilization of diagnostic services, encourage good health practices, link families with primary care, promote an optimal environment for learning
and emotional growth, encourage development
and self - care of mothers,
and begin the school readiness process.
[7] This
decrease in brain structure
and functionality is also seen in youth with other diagnoses such as in cases of
child abuse and neglect, causing reactive attachment disorder
and temper dysregulation as well as schizophrenia, which makes careful attention to the differential of rule - breaking behaviors important for accurate diagnosis.
In addition, such programs have been shown to increase positive birth outcomes for
children, improve the likelihood that families have a medical home,
and decrease rates of
child abuse and neglect.
Programs that
decrease the likelihood that
children will ever be
abused or
neglected through educating parents, teachers, doctors, other service providers,
and the general public about the scope
and problems associated with
child maltreatment, the factors that lead to maltreatment,
and ways to prevent it are important.
For our 2015 - 2017 funding cycle, we placed a high priority on evidence - based programs that are proven to be effective in significantly
decreasing the risks of
child abuse and neglect.
When a mom receives good support during birth
and early postpartum, she's more likely to attach well to her baby —
and this
decreases the risk of infant mortality
and early
child abuse and neglect.
For example: Individuals who have experienced
abuse /
neglect as a
child will report increased emotional reactivity
and decreased satisfaction in romantic relationships as an adult
States should monitor programs to ensure that they lead to a
decrease in
abuse and neglect reports for participating
children.
Quality home - visiting programs reduce
child abuse and neglect, in turn
decreasing the risk of future crime