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Gfellner, Barbara M.; McLaren, Lorraine; Metcalfe, Arron – Child Welfare, 2008
This article is a 20-year evaluation of the Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) of Child and Family Services in Western Manitoba. Following Levenstein's (1979, 1988) approach, home visitors model parent-child interchanges using books and toys to enhance children's cognitive development through appropriate parenting behaviors. The evaluation provides…
Descriptors: Home Programs, Home Visits, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship
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Mykota, David B. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2008
The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the implementation process for Parenting Plus, an early intervention program in a rural, western Canadian health district. Parenting Plus, as modeled after Hawaii Healthy Start, provides strength-based paraprofessional home visitations to overburdened parents of newborns. The general inductive…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Pilot Projects, Focus Groups, Home Visits
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Mitchell, Lori; Roos, Noralou, P.; Shapiro, Evelyn – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2005
Administrative home care data from the Manitoba Support Services Payroll (MSSP) system for fiscal years 1995/1996 to 1998/1999 were utilized to study home care client characteristics and changes in home care use over time. Patterns in home care access and use after hospitalization, before admission to a nursing home, and before death were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Older Adults, Home Programs