The legislation fails to include optional coverage of
nurse home visitation services through Medicaid — a provision included in earlier drafts of the bill.
The Children's Bureau funded three grantees to evaluate and implement
nurse home visitation services.
Not exact matches
The organization provides many vital
services for people and pets such as positive behavior training to enhance the pets» adoption opportunities, investigating animal cruelty and neglect, educational programs for children and adults and even a
nursing home visitation program.
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.
Investing in Healthier Families:
Nurse - Family Partnership: A Promise for South Carolina's Future (PDF - 2,735 KB)
Nurse - Family Partnership (2017) Provides an overview of the
Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP)
home visitation program in South Carolina, including a review of State challenges highlighting a need for
services.
Nurse - Family Partnership
Home Visitation: Costs, Outcomes, and Return on Investment: Executive Summary Miller (2013) Pew Center on the States Analyzes Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP) program costs, life status and functional outcomes, and return on investment in NFP services, which include intensive pre - and postnatal home visitation by nur
Home Visitation: Costs, Outcomes, and Return on Investment: Executive Summary Miller (2013) Pew Center on the States Analyzes Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP) program costs, life status and functional outcomes, and return on investment in NFP services, which include intensive pre - and postnatal home visitation
Visitation: Costs, Outcomes, and Return on Investment: Executive Summary Miller (2013) Pew Center on the States Analyzes
Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP) program costs, life status and functional outcomes, and return on investment in NFP
services, which include intensive pre - and postnatal
home visitation by nur
home visitation visitation by
nurses.
PHG's comprehensive
services include monthly
home visitations by registered
nurses and social workers, parenting education classes and support groups, legal
service referrals, as well as early intervention
services for young children.
It was written by Linda Wollesen as a distillation of more than 35 years of
home visitation experience in public health
nursing programs and was created in response to the need for a comprehensive outcome tool for
home visitation services.
Studies of
home visitation services lasting 2 1/2 years have cited costs of $ 7681 per family for
nurse home visitation and $ 5178 per family for paraprofessional
home visitation.41