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Download full textWeise, Cheryl L. – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2014
When low-income women become parents for the first time, they often need support, education and encouragement to be the best parent they can be. They truly want to succeed. Desire, unfortunately, is not enough. These women are usually most open to health care assistance, parenting tools, and a therapeutic relationship with a community health…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Home Visits, Low Income Groups, Mothers
Direct linkCluver, Lucie D.; Lachman, Jamie M.; Ward, Catherine L.; Gardner, Frances; Peterson, Tshiamo; Hutchings, Judy M.; Mikton, Christopher; Meinck, Franziska; Tsoanyane, Sibongile; Doubt, Jenny; Boyes, Mark; Redfern, Alice A. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Purpose: Violence against children increases in adolescence, but there is a research and practice gap in research-supported child abuse prevention for the adolescent years. A pilot program for low-resource settings was developed in collaboration with nongovernmental organizations, government, and academics in South Africa, using research-supported…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Parent Education, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Michalopoulos, Charles; Faucetta, Kristen; Warren, Anne; Mitchell, Robert – US Department of Health and Human Services, 2017
Children from low-income families are more likely than those from higher income families to have poor social, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and health outcomes. One approach that has helped parents and their young children is home visiting, which provides information, resources, and support to expectant parents and families with young…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Low Income Groups, Home Visits, Family Programs
Murphy, Flora; Mendez, Melissa – ZERO TO THREE, 2014
In this article, the authors tell the story of one family's journey toward healing using the Child First home visiting and Circle of Security Parenting interventions. Parents with complex trauma histories frequently float through services for years looking for guidance to help them address their struggles. Often, these services do not offer…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Family Programs, Intervention, Trauma
Quintana, Erica, Ed. – Morrison Institute for Public Policy, 2019
In the past few years, people have come to realize that family and child well-being are public health issues. Helping families and children be happy, healthy and resilient helps the larger community. This report will discuss various aspects of family life including the systems that exist to support them, ways families can have more positive…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Child Rearing, Child Development, Community Role
Teel, M. Kay – ZERO TO THREE, 2014
The Strong Start Study tested an innovative, High-Fidelity Wraparound intervention with families in early recovery from substance use. The Strong Start Wraparound model addressed the complex needs of pregnant and parenting women who were in early recovery to increase the protective factors of parental resilience, social connections, concrete…
Descriptors: Intervention, Substance Abuse, Rehabilitation, Family Programs
Tsantefski, Menka; Humphreys, Cathy; Jackson, Alun C. – Child Welfare, 2011
The meaning of human rights for children is a contested issue; the notion of rights for unborn babies poses additional complexity. Drawing on data from a prospective case study of a specialist drug and alcohol obstetric provider and the statutory child protection service, this article discusses family engagement within a child-rights framework,…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Child Abuse, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Programs
Akins, Polly J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Parent education programs have been shown to be effective family-based interventions for preventing child abuse and neglect; however, to ensure their effectiveness, they must be continually evaluated. The purpose of this quantitative study was to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of the Nurturing Parenting Program for…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Program Evaluation, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
Kaufman, Joy S.; Ortega, Sandra; Schewe, Paul A.; Kracke, Kristen – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
The Safe Start demonstration projects, funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) under the first phase of the Safe Start initiative, are primarily designed to influence change at the systems or macrolevels to reduce the incidence of and impact of exposure to violence for children aged birth to 6 years; direct…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Demonstration Programs, Young Children, Individual Characteristics
Ellenbogen, Stephen; Klein, Benjamin; Wekerle, Christine – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
The profound injuries caused by child maltreatment are well documented in the neurological, attachment, cognitive, and developmental literature. In this review paper, we explore the potential of early childhood education (ECE) as a community-based resilience intervention for mitigating the impacts of child abuse and neglect and supporting families…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Early Childhood Education, Resilience (Psychology), Intervention
Kilburn, M. Rebecca, Ed. – RAND Corporation, 2014
The Promising Practices Network (PPN) on Children, Families and Communities (www.promisingpractices.net) began as a partnership between four state-level organizations that help public and private organizations improve the well-being of children and families. The PPN website, archived in June 2014, featured summaries of programs and practices that…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Well Being, Web Sites, Child Development
Shapiro, Cheri J.; Prinz, Ronald J.; Sanders, Matthew R. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2008
A population-level approach to deliver parenting and family support is a necessary but neglected approach needed to reduce the high prevalence of emotional/behavioral problems in children, decrease inadequate and potentially abusive parenting practices, and to provide improved parenting support to all parents within a specified population. We…
Descriptors: Intervention, Family Programs, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
