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Purpose: Describes ways that home visiting programs can support postpartum care. Example Topics Addressed: Importance of postpartum care Barriers to obtaining postpartum care Coordinating health care and home visiting services to address barriers
The Building Healthy Children (BHC) home visiting program was designed to provide concrete support and evidence-based intervention to young mothers and their infants who were at heightened risk for child maltreatment and poor developmental outcomes. BHC flexibly delivers three evidence-based…
Community-based home visiting programs are recommended vehicles for early life-course interventions to prevent childhood obesity. We developed and implemented a proof-of-concept protocol for collecting child weight and length or height data for children aged 6 months to 5 years through…
Using an attachment theory framework, this study explores the influence that home visiting quality can have on stressed parent-child relationships. Parenting stress, quality of parent-child interactions, home visitor facilitation of parent-child interactions, and overall home visitor quality practices were examined…
Cost is often a primary concern when policymakers and practitioners consider a new program. This brief provides information on the cost of implementing a home visiting program for adolescent mothers. The information comes from an evaluation of the Steps to…
Child birth order (CBO) in the family has received little attention in the field of prevention science. CBO is relevant to early interventionists from a public health perspective, as the most widely disseminated home-visiting program has traditionally targeted mothers and…
Developmental differences in visual attention between infants of low and high socioeconomic status (SES) have been observed as early as 6 months of age. These deficits in low-SES infants may compound into the well-known achievement gap when children enter grade…
Despite the evidence and investment in evidence-based federally funded maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting, substantial challenges persist with parent involvement: enrolling, engaging, and retaining participants. We present an integrative review and synthesis of recent evidence regarding the influence…
This paper summarizes and comments on emerging, but important, developments in practice, policy, and research focused on population-level interventions to address disparities in language development among young American children. This examination draws parallels between the need for broad scale Word…
Different early childhood home visitation program models include prenatal physical activity (PA) modules within their curricula. This study’s intent was to examine home visitors’ knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) in delivering these modules, by conducting three focus groups and one…