by Adam Shapiro | Jun 20, 2016 | News |
About 85 percent of the brain is developed by age 3. And while many children are fortunate enough to be born into loving, financially secure households, about 72 percent of Luzerne County children are born into economically at-risk households, and a significant number...
by Adam Shapiro | Jun 20, 2016 | News |
Pay for Success (PFS) provides an alternative way to fund prevention programs like quality evidence-based home visiting. PFS offers the public sector a new way to pursue proven programs and bring them to scale through an innovative private/public financing structure....
by Adam Shapiro | Jun 1, 2016 | News |
Healthy Start is especially designed for new mothers who had little or no prenatal care and for recently discharged infants born at low birth weight. Its home visiting program builds on public health, nutrition and social services offered to women within Pittsburgh...