by Adam Shapiro | May 28, 2017 | News |
Evidence-based research found, for example, that a well-designed program of home visiting by medical or social service professionals can measurably improve outcomes for the children of low-income families. This program — the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home...
by Adam Shapiro | May 28, 2017 | News, Uncategorized |
The Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, which provides training and support to families so that they can raise healthy children, would receive $400 million for fiscal 2018 under the budget proposal. The budget proposal is a welcome...
by Adam Shapiro | May 15, 2017 | News |
EDITOR: Monday’s article ably explores the problem of kindergarten unreadiness affecting many local children (“Learning lag still persists”). An important piece of this puzzle, though, is all but overlooked. While it’s true that 90 percent of brain growth occurs...
by Adam Shapiro | May 15, 2017 | News |
Home visiting is rooted in the understanding that children are born to learn; that there is potential for magic in every moment, from the first day of life to the first day of school. Some home visiting programs work with special populations, such as teen moms or...
by Adam Shapiro | May 3, 2017 | News |
MGH Chelsea HealthCare Center referred Abdulkadir to its Healthy Families America home-visiting program. The service is designed to support first-time parents, as well as those raising babies for the first time in the United States. The program offers supports to...