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... The workshop was scheduled to coincide with the release of the Spring/Summer 1999 issue of The Future of Children, a Packard Foundation publication, titled "Home Visiting: Recent Program Evaluations." That journal issue summarizes selected evaluations of six major home visiting models that are being replicated around the country and that are among the most rigorously studied -- Healthy Families America, Parents as Teachers, Hawaii's Healthy Start program, the Comprehensive Child Development Program, the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, and the Nurse Home Visitation Program -- and assesses the current state of knowledge concerning the effectiveness of home visiting programs (Gomby et al., 1999~. The workshop was designed to more fully explore and to extend to home visiting more broadly the issues raised by The Future of Children synthesis.
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