by Adam Shapiro | Apr 23, 2016 | News |
The goal is to support infrastructure development and national expansion of the MTB model in order to improve health and development outcomes in young, vulnerable families during the transition to parenthood. MTB is a federally recognized, evidence-based, intensive...
by Adam Shapiro | Apr 23, 2016 | News |
In 2015, the Maine Families Home Visiting Program worked with more than 2,500 families, helping parents reduce preventive illness and injuries to nearly 2,800 Maine children.Voluntary home-visiting programs also can be an extraordinarily wise investment. Programs have...
by Adam Shapiro | Apr 9, 2016 | News |
Nurse coaching is a vital tool that addresses both the liberal concern about income inequality and the conservative concern about inequality of opportunity. For fiscal conservatives in particular, nurse coaching sharply reduces long-term government spending on...
by Adam Shapiro | Mar 28, 2016 | News |
Sixty-five families are getting tablets that will allow them to have twice-monthly chats with parent-educators through a Web-based conference system. The pilot program is a partnership between Parents as Teachers and the University of Southern...
by Adam Shapiro | Mar 21, 2016 | News |
The Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities, established by the White House and Congress as the result of bipartisan legislation in 2012, last week released its conclusions calling for fundamental changes in child protection. The commission held up...