Sentences with phrase «visiting on child maltreatment»

The research represents one of the largest studies in the U.S. conducted to investigate the impact of home visiting on child maltreatment, including nearly 8,000 families.

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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.

Given the limited rigorous research evidence on home visiting's effectiveness to prevent child maltreatment, one potential impact of using an approach like Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness, which attaches state funding to the quality of the evidence, may be to increase the amount and quality of the child maltreatment prevention research conducted gvisiting's effectiveness to prevent child maltreatment, one potential impact of using an approach like Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness, which attaches state funding to the quality of the evidence, may be to increase the amount and quality of the child maltreatment prevention research conducted gVisiting Evidence of Effectiveness, which attaches state funding to the quality of the evidence, may be to increase the amount and quality of the child maltreatment prevention research conducted globally.

Overall, the research on home visiting to prevent child maltreatment could be improved with use of rigorous methods, appropriate measures, longer follow - up periods, and inclusion of and reporting on important subgroups.

In general, the research shows that home visiting programs have the greatest, albeit still modest, effect on parents» support for children's learning and in reducing the prevalence of child maltreatment, but that these effects are strongest for the most disadvantaged program participants.

This includes improved birth, health and child development outcomes, and reductions in child maltreatment.15 A number of SNHV programmes have also shown favourable effects on healthcare usage, including rates of well - child healthcare visits.15

The evaluation will focus specifically on children's school readiness and child maltreatment in the years after families complete or exit home visiting programs.

However, for both child abuse and parent stress, the average effect sizes were not different from zero, suggesting a lack of evidence for effects in these areas.108 Earlier meta - analytic reviews have also noted the lack of sizable effects in preventing child maltreatment — again citing the different intensity of surveillance of families in the treatment versus control groups as an explanation (though the authors did report that home visiting was associated with an approximately 25 percent reduction in the rate of childhood injuries).109 Another review focusing on the quality of the home environment also found evidence for a significant overall effect of home - visiting programs.110 More recently, Harriet MacMillan and colleagues published a review of interventions to prevent child maltreatment, and identified the Nurse - Family Partnership and Early Start programs as the most effective with regard to preventing maltreatment and childhood injuries.

Research on child maltreatment has increased over the past 15 years and meta - analyses and reviews of the literature on the effectiveness of home visiting programs to prevent child maltreatment exist.10, 11,12 However, until recently there was not a wide ranging systematic review of the evidence on home visiting.7, 13,14,15,16 An effort launched in 2009 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE), filled this gap by providing a systematic review of the early childhood home visiting research with particular attention to its applicability to the prevention of child maltrvisiting programs to prevent child maltreatment exist.10, 11,12 However, until recently there was not a wide ranging systematic review of the evidence on home visiting.7, 13,14,15,16 An effort launched in 2009 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE), filled this gap by providing a systematic review of the early childhood home visiting research with particular attention to its applicability to the prevention of child maltrvisiting.7, 13,14,15,16 An effort launched in 2009 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE), filled this gap by providing a systematic review of the early childhood home visiting research with particular attention to its applicability to the prevention of child maltrVisiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE), filled this gap by providing a systematic review of the early childhood home visiting research with particular attention to its applicability to the prevention of child maltrvisiting research with particular attention to its applicability to the prevention of child maltreatment.

Overall, the research on home visiting to prevent child maltreatment could be improved with use of rigorous methods, appropriate measures, longer follow - up periods, and inclusion of and reporting on important subgroups.

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.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome in a subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22

In general, the research shows that home visiting programs have the greatest, albeit modest, effect on parents» support for children's learning and in reducing the prevalence of child maltreatment, but that these effects are strongest for the most disadvantaged program participants.

A recent review offers ambiguous support for the relation between home visitation and reductions in child maltreatment.2 The findings from several large - scale home - visitation efforts have shown disappointing short - term results in reducing family violence and child maltreatment.4, 9 A 15 - year follow - up study of the Elmira trial families, however, provided the first evidence from a randomized trial for the long - term effects of home visitation on reducing child maltreatment.10 Results from the follow - up showed that nurse - visited families had half as many child maltreatment reports as families in the comparison group.

Initial Findings from a Randomized, Controlled Trial of Healthy Families Massachusetts: Early Program Impacts on Young Mothers» Parenting (PDF - 576 KB) Easterbrooks, Jacobs, Bartlett, Goldberg, Contreras, & Kotake (2012) Offers an evaluation on Healthy Families Massachusetts, a statewide child maltreatment prevention home - visiting program for first - time young parents, that examined the program's impact on child maltreatment and parenting in a sample of young mothers.

Faucetta currently works on the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Evaluation (MIHOPE) project, which aims to assess the implementation and effects of home visiting programs intended to prevent child maltreatment, improve maternal and child health outcomes, and increase school reVisiting Evaluation (MIHOPE) project, which aims to assess the implementation and effects of home visiting programs intended to prevent child maltreatment, improve maternal and child health outcomes, and increase school revisiting programs intended to prevent child maltreatment, improve maternal and child health outcomes, and increase school readiness.

She currently works on MIHOPE, a large - scale evaluation that assesses the effects of home visiting programs on maternal and child health outcomes, child maltreatment, and school readiness.

She is currently working on the implementation research and impact analyses for the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), a large - scale national evaluation of home visiting programs that intend to prevent child maltreatment and improve maternal and child health, parenting skills, and child development oVisiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), a large - scale national evaluation of home visiting programs that intend to prevent child maltreatment and improve maternal and child health, parenting skills, and child development ovisiting programs that intend to prevent child maltreatment and improve maternal and child health, parenting skills, and child development outcomes.

«As home visiting programs go to scale, states should consider replicating this study using their administrative data and appropriate statistical methods to create a robust comparison group capable of generating rigorous findings regarding the effects of early intervention efforts on child maltreatment rates,» said Dr. Deborah Daro, Senior Research Fellow at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

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Evidence - based home visiting models have shown positive long - term impacts on children in the long term, via increased school readiness, reduced child maltreatment, and reduced lifetime arrests and convictions.

Child FIRST (Child and Family Interagency Resource, Support, and Training) is a home visitation program for low - income families with children ages 6 - 36 months at high risk of emotional, behavioral, or developmental problems, or child maltreatment, based on child screening and / or family characteristics such as maternal depression.1 Families are visited in their homes by a trained clinical team consisting of (i) a master's level developmental / mental health clinician, and (ii) a bachelor's level care coordinChild FIRST (Child and Family Interagency Resource, Support, and Training) is a home visitation program for low - income families with children ages 6 - 36 months at high risk of emotional, behavioral, or developmental problems, or child maltreatment, based on child screening and / or family characteristics such as maternal depression.1 Families are visited in their homes by a trained clinical team consisting of (i) a master's level developmental / mental health clinician, and (ii) a bachelor's level care coordinChild and Family Interagency Resource, Support, and Training) is a home visitation program for low - income families with children ages 6 - 36 months at high risk of emotional, behavioral, or developmental problems, or child maltreatment, based on child screening and / or family characteristics such as maternal depression.1 Families are visited in their homes by a trained clinical team consisting of (i) a master's level developmental / mental health clinician, and (ii) a bachelor's level care coordinchild maltreatment, based on child screening and / or family characteristics such as maternal depression.1 Families are visited in their homes by a trained clinical team consisting of (i) a master's level developmental / mental health clinician, and (ii) a bachelor's level care coordinchild screening and / or family characteristics such as maternal depression.1 Families are visited in their homes by a trained clinical team consisting of (i) a master's level developmental / mental health clinician, and (ii) a bachelor's level care coordinator.