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Direct linkFarewell, Charlotte V.; Puma, Jini; Bergling, Emily; Webb, Julie; Quinlan, Jennie; Shah, Puja; Maiurro, Emily – Health Education Research, 2020
Obesity and overweight in early childhood have detrimental impacts on children's health and development. Changing policy, system and environmental features focused on physical activity and healthy eating behaviors as part of health promotion interventions can play a key role in prevention strategies in early childhood education settings. These…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Health Promotion, Program Implementation, Evidence Based Practice
Eisenhower, Abbey; Baker, Bruce L.; Taylor, Heather – Research Papers in Education, 2016
School-based mental health services are a promising context for evidence-based interventions to promote early socio-emotional development, yet implementation presents significant challenges. This paper describes the rationale, content and format of a school-based intervention, Starting Strong in Kindergarten (Starting Strong). Starting Strong is a…
Descriptors: Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Mental Health, Health Promotion
Eisenhower, Abbey; Taylor, Heather; Baker, Bruce L. – School Psychology Review, 2016
Starting Strong in Kindergarten (Starting Strong) is a school-based indicated prevention targeting behavior problems, student-teacher relationships, and parent-school connectedness for children with or at risk for disruptive behavior problems during the transition to kindergarten. By use of a block-randomized, controlled trial to test program…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Prevention, Transitional Programs, Behavior Problems
Reynolds, Arthur J.; Hayakawa, Momoko; Ou, Suh-Ruu; Mondi, Christina F.; Englund, Michelle M.; Candee, Allyson J.; Smerillo, Nicole E. – Child Development, 2017
We describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive preschool to third grade prevention program for the goals of sustaining services at a large scale. The Midwest Child-Parent Center (CPC) Expansion is a multilevel collaborative school reform model designed to improve school achievement and parental involvement from ages…
Descriptors: Scaling, Sustainability, Program Development, Program Implementation
Zhang, Wenjing; Chen, Jingqi; Feng, Yanan; Li, Jingyi; Liu, Chengfeng; Zhao, Xiaoxia – Research on Social Work Practice, 2014
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of a sexual abuse prevention education in a sample of Chinese preschool children in Beijing, China. Method: One hundred and fifty preschool children were randomly assigned to either the intervention group (N = 78) or the wait-list control group (N = 72). Children were posttested on…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Evaluation, Sexual Abuse, Prevention
Calzada, Esther J.; Caldwell, Melissa B.; Brotman, Laurie Miller; Brown, Elissa J.; Wallace, Scyatta A.; McQuaid, Jennifer H.; Rojas-Flores, Lisseth; O'Neal, Colleen R. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2005
Widespread dissemination of evidence-based programs for underserved populations may require non-traditional means of service provision. Collaboration with paraprofessionals from communities that are targeted for intervention holds promise as a delivery strategy that may make programs more accessible and acceptable, especially to parents living in…
Descriptors: Evidence, Neighborhoods, Intervention, Feasibility Studies
Caldwell, Melissa B.; Brotman, Laurie M.; Coard, Stephanie I.; Wallace, Scyatta A.; Stellabotte, Debra J.; Calzada, Esther J. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2005
We describe a university-community collaborative effort to tailor and deliver a prevention program for families of preschoolers living in low-income, urban communities. ParentCorps, which builds on efficacious interventions with parents and young children, aims to promote child social competence and prevent conduct problems by strengthening…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Prevention, Testing, Community Involvement
