Sentences with phrase «related outcomes for children»

The First Eight Years: Giving Kids a Foundation for Lifetime Success (PDF - 1,628 KB) Annie E. Casey Foundation & KIDS COUNT Focuses on the importance of using an integrated and comprehensive system of services and evidence - based programs to address the varied needs of all children, birth to age 8, and their families to support improved educational and related outcomes for children, now and into adulthood.

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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)

Pediatric Therapy Network (PTN) was founded in 1996 by a handful of therapists, parents and volunteers who envisioned an organization that would provide the community with high quality therapy, research and education as it relates to fostering the best possible outcomes for children with special needs.

Both the KUDOS (Kansas DHA Outcome Study), directed by Carlson and Colombo, and the DOMinO (DHA to Optimize Mother Infant Outcome) study directed by Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition and Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk for early preterm birth.

Working toward this ideal requires attention to not only economic inequities but also to the many related inequities that harm children who grow up poor and to the opportunities for disrupting the strong predictive relationship between poverty and negative outcomes.

Her basic science research included the scientific investigation of pancreatitis related respiratory failure and her health services research focused on the development of a national trauma registry for children and outcome evaluation of children's trauma - related care.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

The EEF has today launched its latest grant - funding round, seeking applications for high - potential projects which aim to improve attainment and related outcomes for disadvantaged children and young people.

SRI understands that as long as race, class, sexual orientation, immigration status, gender, gender identity, ability, religion, and ethnicity continue to predict the future life chances of children in our nation, we must work with schools and school systems to identify related barriers and obstacles to opportunity and development, disrupt their negative impact, eliminate the persistent disparities, and implement new policies and practices that support significant learning outcomes for each and every student.

Course Narrative: The START Early Childhood Training involves intensive training on evidence - based practice to increase knowledge and skills that enhance the educational programming and outcomes for young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and related disabilities.

This report seeks to answer two policy questions: whether providing subsidies to families whose incomes are just over the state's eligibility limit affects their child care and employment outcomes, and whether extending the length of time before families must reapply for subsidies affects the receipt of subsidies and related outcomes.

MIECHV required states to make a priority of services for at - risk families in order to improve a broad range of outcomes related to parental and child health and well - being, parenting, economic self - sufficiency, and intimate partner violence.

The Perry Preschool Program and Abecedarian Preschool Project — long considered the quality gold standards — delivered better education, health - related behavior, social and economic outcomes for disadvantaged children who received treatment versus those who received none.

Early Outcomes for Programs and Families in Children's Futures (PDF - 932 KB) Walker, Daly, McMaken, & Pouncy (2010) Examines outcomes for families served by an early childhood initiative in Trenton, NJ, and addresses issues related to cost, partnership development, and sustainability of the Children's Futures Outcomes for Programs and Families in Children's Futures (PDF - 932 KB) Walker, Daly, McMaken, & Pouncy (2010) Examines outcomes for families served by an early childhood initiative in Trenton, NJ, and addresses issues related to cost, partnership development, and sustainability of the Children's Futures outcomes for families served by an early childhood initiative in Trenton, NJ, and addresses issues related to cost, partnership development, and sustainability of the Children's Futures program.

Secondary outcomes: other related behavioural and emotional problems (Children's Depression Inventory; State - Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children; Children's Attributions and Perceptions Scale).

Indeed, a longitudinal Swedish study reports that «high achievers» used television as a complement to school learning, whereas «low achievers» used television as a substitute for it.16 Similarly, a study of 326 young children found that parental education is negatively related to hours watched overall.13 Other studies have found effect modification of the effects of television viewing on educational outcomes by the SES of the parents.14, 21 As a result, television viewing in a general population may serve to exacerbate disparities in cognitive outcomes between high - SES and low - SES households.

However, existing federal and state performance measures do not measure all of the ways participation in home visiting programs is related to positive outcomes for children and families.

We report on the development of the evidence base by examining the ACE survey scores in relationship to the established clinical measures of clinical severity, global function, and problem severity collected routinely for children and adolescents referred and accepted for treatment.29, 30 Systemwide implementation of the ACE survey, as a first step, positions CAAMHPP to become an evidence - based, trauma - informed service organization, because ACE survey scores necessarily must relate to clinical outcomes in order to evaluate the effect of trauma - focused interventions in clinical practice.

Current UK government policies recognise the need for universal parenting support to complement targeted and indicated approaches29 — 33 and the English Department for Education is currently piloting the offer of free vouchers for parenting classes (the CANParent initiative) to all parents in three areas of the country.34 Such recommendations derive from observations relating to the prevalence of suboptimal parenting, 35 the inefficiency of targeting on the basis of identifiable risk factors36, 37 and the potential for realising change in high risk as well as whole population groups by reducing the stigma which may be attached to targeted parenting support.36 — 38 Given the range and prevalence of health and social outcomes on which parent — child relationships have an influence, 2, 3, 5 — 16 universal approaches are appealing.

Poor outcomes related to instability may be explained by the stress that accompanies changes in family structure for both parent and child; moreover, changing family circumstances may confound the status quo of authority within the household.23

It is common for fathers» potential contributions to children's outcomes to be overlooked in child health - related parenting research, 14 perhaps because researchers assume either that parenting is similar across mothers and fathers or that fathers» parenting does not add anything to children's outcomes, over and above the contribution of mothers.

Some critics have argued that randomised controlled trials of preventive interventions for child maltreatment and related outcomes are not feasible due to problems in recruitment and retention of participants.

Studies that focus on condition - independent outcomes could include measures of perceptions of health care quality or health - related quality of life, both of which are particularly important for a group of children who interface so frequently with the medical system.

For the first time the efficacy, acceptability, tolerability and suicide - related outcomes of pharmacological and psychological interventions, alone or in combination for depressive disorder in children and adolescents will be comprehensively assessed in a NFor the first time the efficacy, acceptability, tolerability and suicide - related outcomes of pharmacological and psychological interventions, alone or in combination for depressive disorder in children and adolescents will be comprehensively assessed in a Nfor depressive disorder in children and adolescents will be comprehensively assessed in a NMA.

Dr. Brown's research publications have included: Self - cutting and sexual risk among adolescents in intesive psychiatric treatment; Promoting safer sex among HIV - positive youth with hemophilia: Theory, intervention, and outcome; Predictors of retention among HIV / hemophilia health care professionals; Impact of sexual abuse on the HIV - risk - related behavior of adolescents in intensive psychiatric treatment; Heroin use in adolescents and young adults admitted for drug detoxification; and Children and adolescents living with HIV and AIDS: A review

However, existing performance measures do not measure all of the ways participation in home visiting programs is related to positive outcomes for children and families.Given the high level of investment at the federal and state level into evidence - based home visiting programs, identifying the extent to which home visiting programs provide value for families and children even if they do not complete the program is important for demonstrating home visiting as a sound investment.

Duncan and Magnuson have certainly identified some major issues for policy consideration related to family income and consequent developmental outcomes in children.

(c) relating to a Central Authority within the meaning of the regulations applying on behalf of another person for a parenting order that deals with the person or persons with whom a child is to spend time or communicate if the outcome of the proceedings is that the child is not to be returned under the Convention.

Protective factors are related to good outcomes for children, and serve to protect children when they are exposed to risk.

Australia's national educational goals for the 21st century, as well as curriculum frameworks for each state and territory, recognise the importance of children achieving positive outcomes that relate directly to the skills of social and emotional learning.

Most recently her work has been in the area of Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing from a reconciliation perspective, in particular as it relates improving the health outcomes for Aboriginal children and families.

Main Outcome Measures Quality of care was operationalized across 4 domains: effectiveness (eg, families received ≥ 4 Healthy Steps — related services or discussed > 6 anticipatory guidance topics), patient - centeredness (eg, families were satisfied with care provided), timeliness (eg, children received timely well - child visits and vaccinations), and efficiency (eg, families remained at the practice for ≥ 20 months).

A Foster Care Practice Model: Lifelong Families Case Practice Tools The Annie E. Casey Foundation (2012) Includes resources and materials related to Lifelong Families, a practice model that is intended to serve as a method of improving foster care practice within private child welfare agencies and advancing permanency outcomes for children in care, especially older youth in treatment foster care.

Vandell (2000) cited a study by Rodgers, Rowe, and Li (1994) to support her carefully phrased statement that «differences in home environments for children in the same family are related to differences in child and adult mental health outcomes» (p. 702), but as Rodgers et al. (1994) admitted, «Of course, the causal direction is ambiguous» (p. 381).

Research on maternal disordered eating and feeding responsiveness provides an avenue for examining how a behaviorally defined example of maternal energy - intake dysregulation is related to child outcomes.

Positive outcomes favoring the Seeking Safety condition were found in various domains including substance use and associated problems (on the Personal Experiences Scale and the Adolescent Psychopathology Scale), some trauma - related symptoms (on the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children), cognitions related to SUD and PTSD (the Reasons for Using Scale and the World Assumptions Scale), and various psychopathology (on the Adolescent Psychopathology Scale).

As affective relationship quality is especially important to behavioural change in children with high CU traits, an association between change in warmth in the pictures and child outcome would be moderated by levels of CU traits, such that more warmth would be more strongly related to positive outcomes in the child for children with high CU traits compared to those with low CU traits (hypothesis c).

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The results of this evaluation of the Early Start service showed that, despite clear benefits of the program for parenting - and child - related outcomes, as described in our earlier article, 1 there was no evidence to suggest that the program had a positive impact on a wide range of family - related outcomes, including maternal health, family functioning, family economic circumstances, and susceptibility to family stress.

This comparison suggests that home visitation programs may provide benefits for child - related outcomes in the absence of parent - or family - related outcomes.

Predictive factors from age 3 and infancy for poor child outcomes at age 5 relating to children's development, behaviour and health: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study, York University.

Its analysis of resilience among children in the most deprived groups suggested that some aspects of parenting (related to home learning environment) were important for avoiding negative outcomes in these groups.

Table 3.4 summarises the relationships between maternal mental health and the selected child development outcomes that continued to show a significant independent relationship after controlling for variables with were related to each other.

Early childhood health and development trajectories for these children will be constructed via linkage to a range of administrative data sets relating to birth outcomes, congenital conditions, hospital admissions, emergency department presentations, receipt of ambulatory mental healthcare services, use of general practitioner services, contact with child protection and out - of - home care services, receipt of income assistance and fact of death.

Predictive factors from age 3 and infancy for poor child outcomes at age 5 relating to children's development, behaviour and health: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study.

In partnership with researchers from related projects in Canada, the UK, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, Aboriginal organisations and policymakers, we will analyse whole - of - population data for New South Wales (NSW) to investigate the determinants of positive early childhood development in Aboriginal children, and assess the impacts of two «real - world» programmes that were implemented under circumstances where evidence of their efficacy was unable to be derived from RCTs: the NSW Aboriginal and Maternal Infant Health Service (AMIHS) 45 and the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) Brighter Futures Program.46 Early evaluations of these programmes suggested some positive changes in proximal outcomes related to their objectives.45, 47, 48 However, each of these evaluations was limited by one or more of the following: use of single data sets, less than 2 years of outcome data and / or issues of confounding and selection bias.

In general, the child characteristics that were significant predictors of treatment outcomes followed a similar pattern to that for the parent characteristics, with children showing poorer initial functioning showing greater gains with treatment (i.e., more internalizing symptoms, more temperamental difficulty, greater functional impairment), but the children with less severe initial problems showing lower levels of ODD - related symptoms at each trial.

Definition: Connecting data from multiple sources to track progress on indicators and benchmarks related to outcomes for young children and their families.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of intensive filial therapy [now called Child - Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT] as an intervention for incarcerated mothers as a method of increasing empathic behaviors with their children, increasing attitudes of acceptance toward their children, and reducing stress related to parenting.

The ECN sought to achieve the following goals: (1) establish a comprehensive, sustainable SOC with a reliable infrastructure for young children ages 0 - 5 and their families; (2) reduce stigma and increase community awareness about early childhood mental health needs and the importance of responding to their needs early and effectively; (3) improve outcomes for young children 0 - 5 who have significant behavioral or relational symptoms related to trauma, parent / child interaction difficulties or impaired social emotional development; (4) provide statewide training and local coaching for providers, families, and community members regarding evidence - based practices for effectively treating early childhood mental health and social emotional needs; and (5) develop a seamless early childhood SOC using a public health model for replication in other areas of the state.