Sentences with phrase «effective home visitation»

There is growing evidence to suggest that effective home visitation requires the use of trained staff rather than paraprofessionals.19

Challenges to building and sustaining effective home visitation programs: Lessons learned from the states.

Federal Healthy Start Initiative: A National Network for Effective Home Visitation and Family Support Services (PDF - 2,020 KB) National Healthy Start Association (2010) Summarizes the history of and core services provided by the Healthy Start Initiative and, in light of recent health - care legislation, reviews the key role it can play in improving health outcomes for vulnerable populations.

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She was instrumental in ensuring HFA was designated as a proven and effective model of home visitation by the US Department of Health and Human Services.

In their current state of development, home visitation programs do not appear to represent the low - cost solution to child health and developmental problems that policymakers and the public have hoped for.5 However, information that is accumulating about long - term outcomes and effective practices may lead to the development of replicable programs that are capable of producing modest but consistent and positive results for participating target families.

Other interventions, such as in - home visitation by nurses and therapeutic foster care as an alternative to juvenile incarceration, and universal school - based violence prevention programs have proven effective, and expanding these programs could reduce the numbers of injuries even further.»

▶ Long - term home visitation programmes for parents of young children to promote child development and prevent health and social problems seem to be effective.

Other parenting programs aimed at preventing abuse and neglect Other parenting programs that are effective in reducing child abuse are cognitive behavioral therapy, parent - child interaction therapy, and child behavioral management programs.47 Some, but not all, home visitation programs, which have historically been used to help disadvantaged mothers, show evidence of success in preventing child abuse.

Home - visitation programs can be an effective early - intervention strategy to improve the health and well - being of children, particularly if they are embedded in comprehensive community services to families at risk.4 Home - visitation programs are not a panacea, sufficient unto themselves to reverse or prevent the damaging effects on children of poverty and inadequate or inexperienced parenting.

Home - visitation programs offer an effective mechanism to ensure ongoing parental education, social support, and linkage with public and private community services.

Are home - visitation programs cost - effective?

Additionally, she regularly welcomes a member of A Family Place's home visitation team into her home to work on effective parenting techniques.

Few prevention programs have been rigorously evaluated, and only a few have proven effective.60, 61 Health - care based prevention programs, including parent education programs to reduce rates of abusive head trauma, and improving physician ambulatory care practices to help families decrease risk factors for child maltreatment have shown good initial results, but require further evaluation.62, 63 Specific intensive home visitation programs such as nurse home visiting programs for first - time mothers have proven to be both clinically and cost effective in preventing maltreatment.64, 65 However, a program of nurse home visitation has been found ineffective as a treatment model for abusive and neglectful families, highlighting the importance of primary prevention, as well as the need to rigorously evaluate potential treatments for abusive families.66 Child welfare services are historically structured as short - term interventions that monitor families for recidivism, provide parenting education and assist with referrals to community - based services.

This question starts the relationship between our Healthy Families home visitation team and a mother seeking effective ways to interact with her child.

Specific home visitation programs, especially with nurses supporting parents prenatally and then after the baby is born, have been carefully evaluated.17 - 19 Parenting programs also offer valuable guidance and can be effective, such as the Triple P intervention.20 Another example is the Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) model of pediatric primary care.21 Building on the relationship between pediatrician and family, SEEK identifies and helps address prevalent risk factors such as parental depression.

Programs such as parenting training programs and nurse home visitation have been shown to be effective.

In addition to assessing the impact of home - visitation services on child maltreatment, it is also important to specify for whom and under what conditions these services are effective.

Context Home visitation to families with young children has been promoted as an effective way to prevent child maltreatment, but few studies have examined the conditions under which such programs meet this goal.

She was instrumental in ensuring HFA was designated as a proven and effective model of home visitation by the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Home visitation: A critical component of effective early intervention systems.

These findings support a conclusion drawn on the basis of an earlier evaluation of the Early Start service, ie, this program seems to work by promoting «new learning» in areas related to child health, education, and parenting, rather than by changing longstanding family difficulties.12 What these findings may suggest is that home visitation programs are most effective when they focus on providing parents with new skills, insights, and approaches to the complex task of parenthood and are least effective when they attempt to change longstanding family problems and difficulties.

A growing body of evidence demonstrates that home visitation can be an effective method of delivering family support and child development services.

Home visitation: A cornerstone for effective early intervention systems.

In recent years, there has been growing pessimism about the ability of home visitation programs to deliver effective outcomes for children and families.13, 29.

Quality early childhood education from birth to age five, coupled with parent - coaching, such as home visitation programs for parents and teen mothers, has proven to be effective and warrants more investment.

The plan incorporates important existing and new investments in effective child development from birth to three, such as home visitation, Early Head Start and quality childcare.

Evidence - based family skills training programmes have been found to be the most effective way to prevent substance use among children and adolescents after nurse home - visitation programmes.

The types of preventive interventions that were effective in preventing child maltreatment were: home visitation interventions (d =.210), parent training interventions (d =.428), family - based / multisystemic interventions (d =.343), substance abuse interventions (d = 1.852) and combined interventions (d =.174).

Cognitive behavioral therapy, home visitation, parent training, family - based / multisystemic, substance abuse, and combined interventions were effective in preventing and / or reducing child maltreatment.

Previous research has shown that long - term home visitation program participation increases among those with greater emotional and instrumental social support needs.39 The level of participation and particularly continuation by depressed teenagers in this study suggests that these kinds of programs may be an effective way to engage them.