Strategies for Scaling Effective Family-Focused Preventive Interventions to Promote Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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2 Scaled-Up, Evidence-Based Family-Focused Preventive Programs
2 Scaled-Up, Evidence-Based Family-Focused Preventive Programs
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The NFP focuses on this group of others m because in poverty "women experience a lot of adversity that interferes with their capacity to care for themselves and their children," said David Olds of the Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health at the University of Colorado at Denver, who developed the program. He added that the program's focus on pregnant women, some of whom are adolescent, enables it to target those young mothers whose own development is not complete, and who are going through major life biological transitions because of the hormones linked to pregnancy and caring for the first child.
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The major functions of NFP include nurturing community, organizational, and state commitment to developing the program; ongoing education of and consultation with nurses; clearly articulating what the program is designed to accomplish and the essential components of the model in visit-by-visit guidelines; monitoring and assessing program implementation through an information system that is not too burdensome; and using that information to improve the model and replication efforts, said Olds. Large, well-controlled studies in Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic communities found that the NFP fostered improvements, including reduced prenatal tobacco use (Matone et al., 2012)
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2 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires a national evaluation of the MIECHV program in its early years of operation called the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation. The evaluation, which will be presented to Congress in 2015, will lay the foundation and framework for understanding future findings from the national evaluation (HHS, 2013)
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is a group of programs designed to promote emotional and social competence and to prevent, reduce, and treat aggression and emotional problems in children aged 0 to 12 years old. IY developed seven different programs for parents; two programs for promoting children's social and emotional development, one prevention and one treatment; and one program for training teachers in how to promote children's social and emotional development.
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. IY programs are delivered in a variety of settings including Head Start centers, primary grade schools, mental health centers, jails, homeless shelters, businesses, and doctors' offices.
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12 States with Certified Group Leaders/Mentors States that are implementing IY Programs FIGURE 2-2 The Incredible Years® (IY) provider locations in the United States.
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FIGURE 2-3 Scaling up delivery of The Incredible Years®: Countries where training occurs. SOURCE: Webster-Stratton, 2014.
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Triple P is applied within a number of sectors, including education, health care, mental health, and juvenile justice systems, and it relies on the existing workforce to carry out its programs. According to Prinz, anyone with a professional capacity to work with parents, including child care directors, teachers, counselors, social workers, and psychologists, can implement Triple P programs, with more intensive interventions reserved for those with the most professional capacity for them.
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Patricia Chamberlain from the Oregon Social Learning Center reported that KEEP is designed to strengthen the skills that foster parents have with the aim of reducing child behavior and emotional problems and subsequent placement disruptions from foster care. KEEP is typically applied to small groups of foster parents who attend sessions that focus on practical research-based parenting techniques.
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Caseworkers ran the groups. The aims of this program, which is called Child Success NYC, were to decrease foster placement disruptions, decrease the length of foster care stay, increase the permanency for foster children, and have them placed more often with relatives without coming back into the foster care system.
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2010. Enduring effects of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses on maternal life course and government spending: Follow-up of a randomized trial among children at age 12 years.
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2001. Preventing conduct problems, promoting social competence: A parent and teacher training partnership in Head Start.
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