Soon after Miriam Bravo began watching her 2-year-old grandson full-time, she realized that many years had passed since she was last responsible for a young child. Feeling a bit rusty, she turned to ...

“Sit near the door. Make sure your car has plenty of gas. Park so you can get out. Don’t wear something that can be a choking hazard like a lanyard.” Macy Jones, the Head Start director for the ...

Home visiting programs have been providing services to families with young children in the United States since the 1880's. Today, it is estimated that thousands of such programs are in existence, ...

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A colicky baby and the lack of support led first-time mom Fatima Ray to call a number at the library offering parenting help. It put her in touch with a home visiting program, in which trained ...

Home visits are used for a variety of services and patient populations. We used national survey data from physician practices and accountable care organizations (ACOs), paired with qualitative ...

Each year in the United States, more than 600,000 children are victims of child abuse. Nationally, more than one-third (34.2%) of child maltreatment victims are three years old or younger, with ...

There is an urgent need to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes and decrease their racial disparities in the US. Prenatal nurse home visiting programs could help achieve this by increasing ...

The New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department recently expanded an online portal to streamline the process of connecting families with home visiting programs. A referral process to home ...

The Child and Family Research Center at the College of Education & Human Development received a subaward in the amount of $2.25 million from the Federal Preschool Development grant awarded to the ...