Provides an overview of the evidence about the effectiveness of home visiting in preventing child maltreatment, identifies research gaps and discusses implications for key stakeholders.
Discusses a national cross-site evaluation of the Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment (EBHV) initiative including key findings, implications for the field, and recommendations for future research.
Makes the case for creating opportunities for families by addressing the needs of parents and their children simultaneously. The report describes a new approach to reducing poverty, which calls for connecting low-income families with early childhood education, job training, and other tools to achieve financial stability and break the cycle of poverty. It recommends ways to help equip parents and children with what they need to thrive.
Helps policy makers, practitioners, and citizen groups understand what a “parenting success” strategy looks like and how it can strengthen families and communities.
Discusses resources that service providers, advocates, and practitioners can use to better understand and engage the community in responding to children whose caregivers are negatively impacted by mental illness, substance use, or trauma.
Provides an overview of research regarding some key characteristics and training strategies of successful parent education programs and information about selected evidence-based and evidence-informed parent education programs.
Provides resources, "promising practices", and suggestions for adapting family strengthening programs for use with refugee populations.
Identifies the long-term societal benefits of investing early (from conception to age five) in effective programs for children. This paper focuses on parenting education programs and seeks to answer the question, "If we made sufficient investment in effective parenting education programs, what might be the economic benefits to society?"
Articulates why and how Strengthening Families can contribute to home visiting efforts and provides examples from some of the states actively working in this way.
Reviews the most commons types of maternal mental health disorders, how they affect child health and development, available treatments and the role of child health providers in the early detection and linkage to services.
