Sentences with phrase «outcomes of children and families»

a prevention and early intervention program which aims to improve the life outcomes of children and families living in North Dublin, Ireland

Findings in this 48 - month evaluation show that Preparing for Life, a prevention and early intervention program which aims to improve the life outcomes of children and families living in North Dublin, Ireland, has had dramatic impacts on children's IQ, obesity levels and social behavior, as well as parenting skills and the home learning environment.

Describes improvement outcomes of children and families involved in TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) and the Jefferson County Division of Children, Youth and Families (CYF) programs.

Assessing Outcomes among Dual - System Welfare and Child Welfare Involved Families U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau University of Denver, Graduate School of Social Work, The Butler Institute for Families (2012) View Abstract Describes improvement outcomes of children and families involved in TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) and the Jefferson County Division of Children, Youth and Families (CYF) programs.

Maintaining safety and keeping children free from abuse are among the many key desired outcomes of the Child and Family Services Reviews.

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She noted that there is strong research that indicates that the extra income the tax credit gives to low - income families has significant long - term benefits for the children, improving their educational, health, and career outcomes, on top of helping to mitigate immediate hardship.

Thus many Catholics complain about the dearth of priests, all the while ignoring their own responsibility for that outcome — the fact that few have children in numbers large enough to send one son to the priesthood while the others marry and carry on the family name.

The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family breakup.

The poems are relentless in documenting the outcome: Native children forcibly removed from their families to boarding schools, forbidden to speak their own language, subjected to a bureaucratic regime with a toxic mix of condescension and missionary zeal.

In most families, there was no significant impact of the home visits on the children's mental development or school outcomes, but in families where mothers scored especially low on measures of intelligence and mental health, children's academic performance did improve.

Available for download here is a presentation by Liz Trinder, Senior Lecturer and Director of Research Programmes, UEA, called «Messages from research about children's needs, outcomes and interventions in separated families».

Other Resources: Tax Resources for Families Childhood Adversity Narratives (CAN): Opportunities to Change the Outcomes of Traumatized Children Services for Families of Infants and Toddlers Experiencing Trauma: A Research - to - Practice Brief Promising Evidence that Early Head Start Can Prevent Child Maltreatment: A Research - to - Practice Brief

The research provides some of the most conclusive evidence to date of fathers» importance to children's outcomes and reinforces the idea that early childhood programs such as Head Start should focus on the whole family, including mother and father alike.

We started seeing a family counselor (just us two parents) and after 2 years with some improvement but still not really a good outcome, we've started making heavy use of the local children's crisis line (we, or sometimes my daughter, calls them at night to get help containing her emotions) and are also now seeing a different counselor who meets all three of us.

Outcomes relating to child (ren): has desired level of access to child (ren) and contact with mother; considers himself part of a family unit; has a positive relationship with child (ren); is involved in decisions about child (ren); can provide financial support for child (ren); has involvement in child (ren)'s future; is a positive role model for child (ren)

A substantial body of research now indicates that high levels of involvement by fathers in two parent families are associated with a range of desirable outcomes in children and young people, including: better peer relationships; fewer behaviour problems; lower criminality and substance abuse; higher educational / occupational mobility, relative to that of parents; capacity for empathy; non-traditional attitudes to earning and childcare; more satisfying adult sexual partnerships; and higher self - esteem and life - satisfaction (for reviews see Flouri 2005; Pleck and Masciadrelli 2004).

• For older children in stepfather families a good relationship between non-resident father and child is associated with good adjustment outcome independently of the mother - child relationship (Dunn, 2004).

Although it is generally agreed (Dunn, 2004) that children in separated families do best when they retain a strong, positive relationship with both parents, many studies have found no significant association between the frequency of non-resident father - child contact and more positive child outcomes (Amato & Gilbreth, 1999).

• For these and other reasons, although children in mother - stepfather families tend to experience better financial support than children in lone mother households, and their stepfathers tend to be of higher «quality» than their biological fathers in terms of education, employment, psychopathology etc. (McLanahan et al, 2006) their outcomes and adjustment are not superior to children in lone mother households, although there may be cultural variations.

Its mission is simple: to promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, enhance the development of very young children, and promote healthy family functioning.Early Head Start (EHS)

Authoritarian parents have very high expectations of conduct and outcome, but can be very punitive and even shaming of their children, so rarely do children from these kind of families have good self esteem.

Comparisons between the outcomes of children of married and unmarried parents are then, at least to some extent, comparisons between the outcomes of children from well - off families and children from poorer families.

N: It can be challenging to help others grasp a bigger picture of adoption outcomes; children who are adopted may have different perspectives and feelings than their birth and / or adoptive families.

Family vacations revolve around team's travel schedules and the outcome of their child's game becomes the highlight — or low point — of their day.

Therefore, prospective adoptive families would greatly benefit by having extensive pre-adoption counseling and awareness of how an older child has grown up in an institutional environment and that providing a «good and loving home» may not be enough as specialized and practical treatment strategies may bring about a more positive outcome since so many families attempt to love and nurture the older child when, in fact, a gradual treatment process involving «reintegration into the family» must occur first.

His Child Development paper, «Family Members as Third Parties in Dyadic Family Conflict: Strategies, Alliances, and Outcomes» (with Samuel Vuchinich and Jude Cassidy), won the 1989 «Outstanding Research Publication Award» from the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy.

Babywearing is often a cornerstone of the parenting styles shown to have the greatest positive outcomes for children, families, and communities.

Of course, parents must make a decision based on the best possible outcome for each individual child and the family as a whole, and not at the whim of a young chilOf course, parents must make a decision based on the best possible outcome for each individual child and the family as a whole, and not at the whim of a young chilof a young child.

A woman's ability to access family planning, which allows her to choose whether and when to have children, has a direct impact on her health and well - being, as well as on the outcome of each pregna

As interest in the promise of evidence - based home visiting programs to improve outcomes for children and families grows, policymakers and practitioners need guidance about how to implement them effectively and sustain high - fidelity implementation over the long term.

Although some programs have produced evidence of enduring, long - term family, maternal, and child outcomes, other broadly disseminated programs have not demonstrated detectable effects.

Stakeholders» input was integrated into development of A Healthy Start for Minnesota Children: Supporting Opportunities for Life - Long Health, a theory of change that depicts how public understanding, health in all policies, and community innovation lead to 1) safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments and 2) social and economic security, which in turn will help the state achieve its ultimate outcome — that every Minnesota child, prenatal to age three years, will thrive in their family and community and achieve their full potential regardless of their race, where they live, or their family's income.

Low family income during the early childhood has been linked to comparatively less secure attachment, 4 higher levels of negative moods and inattention, 5 as well as lower levels of prosocial behaviour in children.2 The link between low family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical diagnostic interviews.7

The initiative is targeted at improving child and family outcomes, including decreasing rates of child maltreatment and improving parenting practices that may decrease risk for maltreatment.

Not all home visiting services designed to promote the health of families with infants and young children yield comparable outcomes for all children.

For example, research is needed to determine the thresholds of dosage and duration of services necessary to positively affect family and child outcomes.

Supporting high - fidelity implementation of evidence - based home visiting programs has the potential to improve outcomes for at - risk children and families.

This evaluation, mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (P.L. 111 - 148), is designed to build knowledge for policymakers and practitioners about the effectiveness of the MIECHV program in improving outcomes for at - risk children and families.

Although there are studies of home visiting that report effects of child maltreatment on child and family outcomes, relatively few of them use rigorous methods that support drawing causal inferences about effectiveness.

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.

In other words, even when home visitation programs succeed in their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiveness.

In the US, the Obama administration has funded a range of initiatives that require the use of evidence - based strategies in areas such as teen pregnancy prevention, home visiting, education and workforce innovation.2, 3 In the field of home visiting, an increasing number of programs have been rigorously evaluated and have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness in outcome domains such as parenting, maternal and child health, child development and school readiness, reductions in child maltreatment, and family economic self - sufficiency.4, 5,6

This theory of change is being used to help people across various state agencies, community organizations, and families see how they can promote stronger outcomes for young children and families in the state.

Thus, although improving the economic status of families promotes more positive outcomes for children's cognitive development and academic achievement, direct services and therapeutic interventions may be a comparatively more promising alternative for improving children's psychosocial development and reducing behaviour problems.

Provides health - care professionals — including pediatricians, family practice providers, hospital nurses, school nurses, urgent care clinicians, and other health - care professionals — with an overview of the field of child welfare and suggests ways that health - care professionals and child welfare workers can work together to promote better outcomes for children and families involved with child welfare, including children in foster care.

In order to accurately measure the efficacy of several home visiting programs, a comprehensive assessment that includes measures of multiple child and family outcomes at various points in time should be favoured.

Our programs ensure that more children will grow up with nurturing fathers, leading to multiple positive outcomes for the whole family — and this depends almost entirely on the generosity of supporters like you.

The primary goal of parent support programs is to provide support and information in ways that help parents become more capable and competent.2, 3 Research now indicates that to reach this goal, it is necessary that staff use practices that are family - centered as opposed to professionally - centered, and capacity - building as opposed to dependency forming.4, 5,6,7 The key characteristics of family - centered practices include: treating families with dignity and respect; providing individual, flexible and responsive support; sharing information so families can make informed decisions; ensuring family choice regarding intervention options; and providing the necessary resources and supports for parents to care for their children in ways that produce optimal parent and child outcomes.8, 9,10,11

By facilitating their involvement in parenting programs, these families will have the opportunity to change some of their parenting behaviours and beliefs, which may ultimately buffer children who are at risk of poor developmental outcomes because of genetic vulnerability, low birth weight, low socio - economic status, or cumulative environmental risks, among others.

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive develochildren's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive develochildren's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive develochildren can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive develoChildren may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive develochildren's cognitive development.35