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New Ways of Thinking
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... Home visitors can play important roles with families in these circumstances. Although it is not an easy task, if they are properly trained and especially if they work as part of a team that includes mental health professionals, home visitors can identify serious problems, break through families' isolation, provide essential social support, and connect families to appropriate services.
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... The embeddedness of home visiting programs has not been examined carefully, nor explicitly considered as a crucial feature of program design. Yet growing awareness of the importance of this broader context in determining program success may serve to reframe how both program designers and evaluators consider the place and role of home visitation approaches to service delivery.
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