Home Visiting Services With Justice-Involved Families
The effects of having a parent in jail or prison are deep and long lasting for justice-involved families. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
The effects of having a parent in jail or prison are deep and long lasting for justice-involved families. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
For Chengxeng, one of the hardest part of being an incarcerated parent is missing his son’s milestones. Fellow father, Douglas, also incarcerated, hopes to make…
Home visiting programs are uniquely situated for reaching unhoused families and supporting them in meeting their basic needs while promoting healthy child development. Lydia Place,…
More than 1.2 million children did not have a fixed, regular, and adequate place to sleep at night in 2022.* Some unhoused families found temporary…
Opioid use is a critical and growing public health concern for pregnant and parenting caregivers and for their children. In 2017, 8.2 per 1,000 mothers…
Pregnant and parenting adolescents* face the dual challenge of raising a child while navigating their own path to adulthood. Many encounter barriers related to childcare,…
Child First operates an office at Family and Children’s Aid, a Connecticut-based agency that supports mental health. Child First sent the NHVRC this snippet about…
For home visitors, identifying and supporting caregivers who face intimate partner violence (IPV)* is tough under “normal” circumstances. Factor in the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting…
Home visitors are uniquely positioned to identify and support families experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) and to improve IPV outcomes. The recent transition to virtual…
Home visiting participants typically face more adverse experiences than their counterparts. Yet many families—and even members of the same family—process negative events differently, with only…