Sentences with phrase «home for vulnerable families»

They have also renovated a two - family home for vulnerable families.

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But research has shown significant positive outcomes for vulnerable families enrolled in home visiting, including improved maternal, newborn, and infant health, better educational attainment for moms, improved school readiness, and reduced child abuse.

Erie County currently has a need for supportive foster families to provide temporary stable, nurturing homes for hundreds of vulnerable children.

Urge congress to reauthorize home visitation funding for vulnerable child & families.

Immigration: All aspects of immigration, asylum, nationality and refugee law with particular emphasis and expertise in: asylum and human rights cases; overlap between asylum and extradition law; representing children subject to immigration control; representing victims of trafficking and other vulnerable clients; detention and deportation; immigration issues in adoption and surrogacy cases; immigration for family members of British and settled people; EEA - related matters, in particular relating to third - country national family members; appeal work in FTT and UT and the higher courts; public law challenges to Home Office in judicial review; and immigration bail.

If you're in a single - family home, the chances of you being targeted are smaller than if you're in a busy apartment building, for example, but as long as you are vulnerable, you should be vigilant.

▶ The effectiveness of sustained nurse home visiting interventions for vulnerable mothers delivered within a universal child and family heath service has been little studied.

Bright Futures, the AAP health promotion initiative, provides resources for pediatricians to detect both ACEs and adverse developmental outcomes.36 Programs like Reach Out and Read, in which pediatricians distribute books and model reading, simultaneously promote emergent literacy and parent — child relationships through shared reading.37, 38 However, ACEs can not be addressed in isolation and require collaborative efforts with partners in the education, home visitation, and other social service sectors in synergistic efforts to strengthen families.29 In this way, programs like Help Me Grow39 that create streamlined access to early childhood services for at - risk children can play a critical role in building an integrated system that connects families to needed resources to enhance the development of vulnerable children.

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of an intensive home visiting programme in improving outcomes for vulnerable families.

Harding and others, Healthy Families America Effectiveness: A Comprehensive Review of Outcomes (see note 34); Fraser and others, Home Visiting Interventions for Vulnerable Families with Newborns: Follow - Up Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial (see note 45).

This study provides evidence to suggest that this intensive home visiting programme may improve parenting in vulnerable families and increase identification of abuse and neglect in infancy for an added cost of # 3246 per child.

For example, substantial evidence exists that families most plagued by domestic violence are least likely to respond to home - visiting support.23 Other factors that hamper success of home visiting include limited family resources, family mental illness, and families not motivated to participate in the programs.24 Thus, the very risk factors that make children vulnerable interfere with the effectiveness of the programs that are designed to help them.

Fraser and others, Home Visiting Interventions for Vulnerable Families with Newborns: Follow - Up Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial (see note 45).

See also J. A. Fraser and others, Home Visiting Interventions for Vulnerable Families with Newborns: Follow - Up Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial, Child Abuse and Neglect, 24 (2000) pp. 1399 — 1429.

We want every child to be in the loving, stable home that's right for them, and adoption can transform the lives of these vulnerable children - and their adoptive families - in a remarkable way.

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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.

Using a public health frame, we will examine how three evidence - based home visiting models form a continuum of interventions directly addressing this challenge: (1) Family Connects provides nearly universal assessment of needs for families of newborns, with connection to community services (Karen O'Donnell, Duke University); (2) Healthy Families America focuses on prevention through facilitating nurturing relationships and connection to services (Kathleen Strader, Healthy Families America); and (3) Child First targets the most vulnerable young children and families, who have experienced high levels of trauma and adversity, through a team approach providing comprehensive care coordination and mental health intervention for both parent and child (Darcy Lowell, Childfamilies of newborns, with connection to community services (Karen O'Donnell, Duke University); (2) Healthy Families America focuses on prevention through facilitating nurturing relationships and connection to services (Kathleen Strader, Healthy Families America); and (3) Child First targets the most vulnerable young children and families, who have experienced high levels of trauma and adversity, through a team approach providing comprehensive care coordination and mental health intervention for both parent and child (Darcy Lowell, ChildFamilies America focuses on prevention through facilitating nurturing relationships and connection to services (Kathleen Strader, Healthy Families America); and (3) Child First targets the most vulnerable young children and families, who have experienced high levels of trauma and adversity, through a team approach providing comprehensive care coordination and mental health intervention for both parent and child (Darcy Lowell, ChildFamilies America); and (3) Child First targets the most vulnerable young children and families, who have experienced high levels of trauma and adversity, through a team approach providing comprehensive care coordination and mental health intervention for both parent and child (Darcy Lowell, Childfamilies, who have experienced high levels of trauma and adversity, through a team approach providing comprehensive care coordination and mental health intervention for both parent and child (Darcy Lowell, Child First).

Integrated Family Services (IFS) provides specialist in - home and casework support for vulnerable families.

State Legislature creates Home Visiting Services Account to leverage public and private investments and provide for access to home visiting, especially to families living in the most vulnerable situatiHome Visiting Services Account to leverage public and private investments and provide for access to home visiting, especially to families living in the most vulnerable situatihome visiting, especially to families living in the most vulnerable situations.

Last week, we asked for your help to save federal funding for proven and high - quality home visiting services that support our state's most vulnerable children and families.

For vulnerable families who are expecting a first child, early and intensive support by skilled home visitors can produce significant benefits for both the child and parenFor vulnerable families who are expecting a first child, early and intensive support by skilled home visitors can produce significant benefits for both the child and parenfor both the child and parents.

Over the next year, the state Department of Early Learning and Thrive Washington, with help from Third Sector Capital Partners, Inc., will explore whether a Pay for Success model could help expand the state's nationally recognized Home Visiting Services Account and help more babies and families in vulnerable communities throughout the state get a better start.

Through a public comment process, it became clear that there was confusion in the field related to Ohio Part C early intervention policies, and policies related to home visiting for vulnerable families.

Whether early educators are working in private for - profit or not - for - profit programs, Head Start, prekindergarten classrooms or family child care homes, T.E.A.C.H. has increased the availability of accessible, affordable college education and workforce supports for these women in low wage jobs working with vulnerable children in early education settings.

This multi-agency group are currently developing their plans to set up a home visiting scheme for vulnerable families in the borough.

Family support and coaching programs, often called «home visiting» because they take place in the homes of vulnerable families, are a proven strategy for strengthening families and saving money.

As Haskins puts it: «A growing body of evidence shows that a few model social programs [including] home visits to vulnerable families... produce solid impacts that can last for many years.»

States were given funds to pay for home - visiting programs intended to change the health and educational trajectories of some of their most vulnerable families.

Brighter Futures is a voluntary, targeted early intervention programme for families with children, or who are expecting a child, that aims to prevent vulnerable children and families from entering the child protection system through provision of intervention and support that will achieve long - term benefits for the children.46 The programme provides a range of tailored services including case management, casework focused on parent vulnerabilities, structured home visiting, quality children's services, parenting programmes and brokerage funds.

Recommendation 3 — Antenatal and postnatal home visiting for vulnerable children and their families

Five key strategies guide communities in creating a vision for early childhood social - emotional health with a focus on reducing physical and mental health disparities, especially among vulnerable populations: 1) Enhanced home visiting through a focus on social and emotional well - being, 2) Screening and assessment in a range of child - serving settings, 3) Integration of behavioral health into primary care, 4) Mental health consultation in early care and education settings, and 5) Family strengthening and parent skills training.

Along the way, home visiting efforts have attracted support from private donors and local, state and federal governments because the research shows home visiting helps parents and improves outcomes for children, especially for the most vulnerable families.

Compared to CHIP, the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) is small — serving around 160,000 families — but advocates say it's become a critical part of the social safety net for the most vulnerable new moms and children.

A controlled trial of an intensive home visiting programme and social support programme for vulnerable families where children could be at risk of abuse or neglect reported a cost per unit improvement in maternal sensitivity and infant cooperativeness of # 3246 (2004 prices)(Barlow et al., 2007; McIntosh et al., 2009).

Multigenerational living also offers increased security for homes as they're not unoccupied for long stretches during the day, as well as for elderly family members in general, who would be more vulnerable to targeted crime if they were living alone.