by Adam Shapiro | Aug 5, 2016 | News |
A total of 65,000 children were abused or neglected in New York State in 2014. That’s enough children to fill Madison Square Garden more than three times. Law enforcement across New York State knows that we can prevent these crimes against children. They released a...
by Adam Shapiro | Aug 5, 2016 | News, Uncategorized |
Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors will vote on a motion to move 103 public health nurses from the Department of Children and Family Services to the Department of Public Health. While largely administrative, the development sets the nation’s largest child...
by Adam Shapiro | Jul 3, 2016 | News |
The first 1,000 days of a child’s life are the most important. Home visitors help parents make them count. This week, the Front Porch podcast speaks with Michele Baranaskas, coordinator for Partners in Community Outreach. It’s a coalition of several...
by Adam Shapiro | Jul 3, 2016 | News |
“[I]t is reasonable to expect that we will have a growing number of effective social programs to attack leading social problems. Consider the examples of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program and the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting...
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....
