Under her leadership, the program has grown significantly — from
serving ninety infants and toddlers operating out
of a single facility in Camden to a funded enrollment
of over a thousand
children between the
ages of zero and five in eight
different facilities in the Camden and Philadelphia area.
Specifically, we wanted the research team to help us and others across the valley: understand near - term trends in changing demographics
of school -
age children for Ada and Canyon counties; identify «hot spots» in development and where demand for new school services may be greatest; discuss school quality in these growth areas — how many students are attending low - performing schools or could benefit from
different school options; and discuss how the changing student demographics might be
served by new school options.
The program originally developed in Elmira
served primarily white, rural adolescent mothers (400 mothers, divided into four
different treatment groups) for whom data are available through the
child's fifteenth birthday.27 It was replicated in Memphis with an urban sample
of 1,139 predominantly African American adolescent mothers and their
children who have been followed through
age nine28 and in Denver with an ethnically diverse sample
of 735 low - income mothers and their
children who have been followed through
age four.29 Beginning in 1996, NFP programs began expanding to other states using a mix
of private, local, and federal funds.