Sentences with phrase «nurse home visiting program»

The Australian Health Minister, visiting North Queensland, announced that Wuchopperen Health Service in North Queensland has been selected as one of two sites for the early roll - out of the Australian Government's nurse home visiting program for Indigenous children.

Now that the children have turned 2, the study has evaluated the impact of the sustained nurse home visiting program on:

Family Connects ® is a community - wide nurse home visiting program for parents of newborns residing in a given geographic area.

The Division of Public Health is working with the Center for Child and Family Health and the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University to effectively implement and sustain Northeast Connects, a short - term, community - based, universal newborn nurse home visiting program.

December 7, 2015 (Cleveland, Ohio)-- Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation today announced a $ 1.2 million grant that will bring to Cleveland for the first time a nurse home visiting program proven to curb infant mortality among low - income families.

Family Risk as a Predictor of Initial Engagement and Follow - Through in a Universal Nurse Home Visiting Program to Prevent Child Maltreatment Alonso - Marsden, Dodge, O'Donnell, Murphy, Sato, Christopoulos (2013) Child Abuse and Neglect, 37 (8) View Abstract Examines family demographic and infant health risk factors that predict engagement and follow - through in a universal home - based maltreatment prevention program for new mothers in Durham County, North Carolina.

NFP is a nurse home visiting program that helps eligible first - time parents learn how to take good care of their babies.

A research study in this month's Archives describes a nurse home visiting program designed to improve breastfeeding rates.

«Nurse home visiting programs can prevent inappropriate use of emergency medical care for infants.

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.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has endorsed nurse home visiting programs as an effective way to prevent child abuse.

Not exact matches

The most widespread home - visiting program in the country today is one that focuses primarily on health: the Nurse - Family Partnership, which sends trained nurses into the homes of low - income expecting mothers, mostly unmarried teenagers.

Missouri's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) team is comprised of the Nurse - Family Partnership Program, Parents as Teachers and the Early Head Start Home Based Option.

Whileparticipation inseveral home visiting programs is effective at improving children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes (e.g., Early Head Start, The Nurse Family Partnership and The Infant Health and Developmental program), few home visiting programs have been able to significantly improve pregnancy outcomes and reductions in child maltreatment have been found for some models, but not for others.

Research shows that families typically receive roughly half of the number of home visits expected.16, 17 For example, across three randomized controlled trials conducted of Nurse Family Partnership, average dosage of visits ranged from 45 to 62 percent.18 Research also shows that many, perhaps most, families enrolled in home visiting programs drop out before their eligibility ends.16, 19,20 Some home visiting studies have varied the dosage that families were offered and found that fewer home visits produced outcomes similar to higher levels of exposure.21

In the third trial of the nurse home visitor program, nurse - visited, 6 - month - old infants born to mothers with low psychological resources (i.e., maternal IQ, mental health, and sense of efficacy) displayed fewer aberrant emotional expressions (e.g., low levels of affect and lack of social referencing of mother) associated with child maltreatment.18

Most trials of prenatal home visiting have produced disappointing effects on pregnancy outcomes such as birth weight and gestational age, 9,16,17 although one program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has reduced prenatal tobacco use in two trials18, 19 and has reduced pregnancy - induced hypertension in a large sample of African - Americans.20

The nine national models that met the HHS evidence requirements as of October 2011 include Child FIRST, Early Head Start — Home Visiting (EHS — HV), Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers (EIP), Family Check - Up, Healthy Families America (HFA), Healthy Steps, Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP), and Parents as Teachers (PAT).

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses described above produced treatment - control differences in 15 - year - olds» arrests and reductions in arrests and convictions among 19 - year - old females.32, 33 In a subsequent trial with a large sample of urban African - Americans the program produced treatment impacts on 12 - year - olds» use of substances and internalizing disorders.34

Those models include: Child FIRST, Early Head Start - Home Visiting, Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers (EIP), Early Start (New Zealand), Family Check - Up, Healthy Families America (HFA), Healthy Steps, Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), Oklahoma's Community - Based Family Resource and Support (CBFRS) Program, Parents as Teachers (PAT), Play and Learning Strategies (PALS) Infant6, and SafeCare Augmented.

Eight existing home visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rathome visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low ratHome Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rating.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has produced consistent effects on clinically significant outcomes in three separate trials with different populations living in different contexts and at different points in U.S. social and economic history.

Furthermore, larger positive effects of home visiting programs are usually found when nurses and / or other professionals deliver services to families instead of paraprofessionals.

Currently Ocean works as a Home Visiting Nurse with Nurse Family Partnership Program, teaches breastfeeding classes at Day One Baby, teaches infant & child CPR and performs Lactation Consultations and Doula services.

The program trains program staff in early childhood, maternal health, case management, and mental health programs, as well as Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children or WIC, nursing, and home visitingprogram trains program staff in early childhood, maternal health, case management, and mental health programs, as well as Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children or WIC, nursing, and home visitingprogram staff in early childhood, maternal health, case management, and mental health programs, as well as Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children or WIC, nursing, and home visitingProgram for Women, Infants, and Children or WIC, nursing, and home visiting staff.

Carol Raphael, President and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, the state's oldest and largest home care agency, said, «The Visiting Nurse Service of New York applauds Governor Cuomo's call for a thoughtful, collaborative approach to restructuring the State's Medicaid program; we are prepared to work with him and his Administration toward the enactment of policies that focus on coordinating care to the State's most vulnerable patients, who often suffer from multiple complex conditions.»

The Durham, N.C. program is the first to evaluate the application of a nurse home visiting model to an entire community.

The most recent research on the program showed that, after being visited frequently by a nurse during their child's first two years of life, the mothers were less likely to abuse or neglect their children, have another child, and abuse drugs or alcohol than mothers who did not receive home visits.

Evidence - based home - visiting programs, like the Nurse - Family Partnership (which relies on trained nurses to support parents from pregnancy through the first two years of a baby's life)-- as well as center - based programs that also include home visits, like Early Head Start — have been shown to enhance parents» sensitivity to their infants» and toddlers» cues, lessen reliance on spanking, and increase the number of age - appropriate learning materials around the house (as well as the amount of time spent reading to kids).

Extending the Nurse Family Partnership Program, which provides home visits from nurses to low - income families.

Expand the Nurse - Family Partnership The Nurse - Family Partnership program helps improve the educational, economic and health outcomes of poor children of first - time mothers through home visits and personal instruction.

Teachers in the CPC program have at least a bachelor's degree along with a certification in early childhood education.18 Staff compensation is relatively high compared to most preschool staff, mirroring the salary schedule of the Chicago Public School system, which reduces teacher turnover.19 In addition to teachers and classroom aides, students also are monitored by parent volunteers, home visit representatives, clerks, nurses, speech therapists, and other administrative staff who are associated with the public school program.

These dogs have participated in a special therapy dog training program to assess their disposition, test their ability to respond to a variety of commands, and otherwise prepare them for visiting nursing homes, hospitals, schools, and other public places.

She had decided she wanted to visit nursing homes with her dog, found an ad in the Cape Cod Times for training for Companion Animal Program, and they were on their way.

Puppy Love is our program of taking puppies and small dogs to visit residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

Launches outreach program — volunteers and associates visit nursing homes, senior citizen centers, etc., where puppies and therapy dogs bring joy and comfort to residents.

We have monthly visits to more than 20 facilities in Orange County including nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals, hospice and children's homes and programs.

In the Pet Visit Program, extraordinary dogs give love to all sorts of people in all sorts of places — the elderly in nursing homes, families grieving in hospice, children frightened in the hospital, and military veterans recovering from injury.

The Pet Visit Program takes place at locations all over the Washington metropolitan area, including nursing homes, hospitals, schools, libraries, and more.

Well - behaved friendly dogs, cats and other household pets are sought for Project PUP, Pets Uplifting People, a program that provides companion animal visits to nursing homes and retirement centers.Seminole Dog Fanciers Association coordinates the Seminole County branch of the project and will hold its screening of pet temperament and behavior for potential participants at 7 p.m. May 14.

The Visiting Pets program is established, a program in which volunteers with their own pets visit area nursing homes and hospitals, bringing joy and delight to individuals who can no longer have pets of their own.

If your pet is a therapy cat or dog who often visit nursing homes, hospitals or children's centers, have your vet conduct a thorough examination and develop a preventive healthcare program, with an emphasis on preventing diseases which may be transmitted to humans.

That's why we need to support voluntary home visiting programs that connect trained mentors and nurses with young and expectant parents, who learn how to deal with stressful child - rearing situations and make their homes safe for kids.

Policy changes enacted in response to our understanding of the biology of trauma are prioritizing earlier interventions like nurse home visiting services for at - risk families, and an increase in pre-kindergarten programs.

Maternal reflective functioning: Enhancing parental reflective functioning in a nursing / mental health home visiting program

By providing registered nurses and using our proven program model of home visiting, we are literally saving babies» lives and giving them a chance to grow.

The federal Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, which supports the implementation of Healthy Families Florida, Nurse - Family Partnership and Parents as Teachers in 21 high - need communities, accounted for 1,500 of the families served and 15,500 of the home visits provided in the state during this perHome Visiting (MIECHV) program, which supports the implementation of Healthy Families Florida, Nurse - Family Partnership and Parents as Teachers in 21 high - need communities, accounted for 1,500 of the families served and 15,500 of the home visits provided in the state during this perhome visits provided in the state during this period.

Health care professionals working in pediatric primary care practices (eg, physicians, nurses, and social workers) and in other health and education programs (eg, home visiting nurses, community case managers, and community health workers) must work on the same team to capitalize on each others» capabilities and expertise, increase efficiencies, and improve the health of children and families.

These programs include the Nurse Family Partnership, 16,17 Healthy Families America, 18,19 Healthy Start, 20,21 Early Head Start, 22,23 the Comprehensive Child Development Program, 24 — 26 and Early Start.27, 28 All of these programs have been evaluated by using randomized control designs but findings from these trials have been mixed, with some programs showing benefits and others failing to show benefits.29, 30 In a recent review, Howard and Brooks - Gunn30 found that home - visiting programs had reported benefits for a number of outcomes, including child abuse, child health care, quality of home environment, parenting, parental depression, and childhood cognitive skills.

This table shows that after adjustment for these differences in program implementation, the nurse - paraprofessional differences sometimes decreased, sometimes increased, and often stayed essentially the same, indicating that the performance of the paraprofessional group was not because of fewer completed home visits or disruption in the visitor relationship.